Categories: News Categories: Personal Categories: Privacy Tags: Google Tags: Chrome Tags: IP Protection Google plans to roll out its IP Protection feature for Chrome in phases. |
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Read moreCategories: News Tags: stalkerware Tags: tracking Tags: intimate partner tracking Tags: spying Tags: stalkerware-type Tags: stalkerware-type app Tags: monitoring app Tags: monitoring Tags: Everyone’s afraid of the internet Tags: privacy Tags: parenthood North America has a spying problem. Its perpetrators are everyday people. |
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The big problem with privacy is that once you relinquish some of it, you never get it back. What makes it worse is when those who are supposed to protect your rights choose to undermine them. When they do so, they eat away at the thin protections we should all enjoy in the digital age.
These are some of the reasons to be so concerned to learn from a newly released US Department of Homeland Security report that multiple US government agencies illegally used smartphone location data, breaching privacy regulations as they did. To do this, they purchased smartphone location data, including Advertising Identifiers (AdIDs) from data brokers that had been harvested from a wide range of apps.
Categories: News Categories: Personal Categories: Privacy Tags: Meta Tags: facebook Tags: Instagram Tags: X Tags: Youtube Tags: TikTok Social media companies are offering or thinking about paid subscriptions in exchange for removing ads. |
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Read moreCategories: News Categories: Personal Categories: Privacy Tags: Meta Tags: Facebook Tags: Instagram Tags: X Tags: xAI Tags: copyright Tags: tweets Social media companies are showing their hand about scraping user data to feed into their AI and large language models. |
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Read moreCategories: News Categories: Privacy Tags: food delivery Tags: robots Tags: Serve Robotics Tags: self-driving cars Tags: footage Tags: police A food delivery service that deploys semi-autonomous robots has worked with the police, handing over camera feeds captured while the robots are out and about. |
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Read moreCategories: News Categories: Privacy Tags: Google Tags: Bard Tags: AI Tags: LLM Tags: crawled Tags: search After an update for Google’s Bard AI, users found that shared conversations were turning up in search results. |
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Read moreCategories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Categories: Ransomware Tags: MOVEit Tags: vulnerability Tags: Cl0p Tags: ransomware Tags: BORN Tags: NSC Tags: privacy Tags: identity theft Canadian healthcare organization Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN) has disclosed a data breach affecting client data. |
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Four years after it started life as a white paper, the UK government’s controversial Online Safety Bill has finally passed through Parliament and is set to become law in the coming weeks.
The bill aims to keep websites and different types of internet-based services free of illegal and harmful material while defending freedom of expression. It applies to search engines; internet services that host user-generated content, such as social media platforms; online forums; some online games; and sites that publish or display pornographic content.
Categories: Personal Tags: metaverse Tags: meta Tags: Facebook Tags: VR Tags: AR Tags: XR Tags: reality Tags: virtual reality Tags: privacy Tags: safety We take a look at the privacy implications of the Metaverse. |
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