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Apple is sneaking around its own privacy policy — and will regret it

February 2, 2022 0 Comments Apple, Data privacy, Mobile, Privacy, small and medium business

Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2022 03:04:00 -0800

Apple has a rather complicated relationship with privacy, which it always points to as a differentiator with Google. But delivering on it is a different tale.

Much of this involves the definition of privacy. Fortunately for Apple’s marketing people, “privacy” is the ultimate undefinable term because every user views it differently. If you ask a 60-year-old man in Chicago what he considers to be private, you’ll get a very different answer than if you asked a 19-year-old woman in Los Angeles. Outside the US, privacy definitions vary even more. Germans and Canadians truly value privacy, but even they don’t agree on what they personally consider private.

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7 smart steps to get your Android phone in tip-top shape for 2022

February 2, 2022 0 Comments Android, google workspace, Mobile, Operating Systems, Privacy, Security, small and medium business

Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2022 03:00:00 -0800

Happy New Year! I don’t know about you, but I find the start of a fresh voyage around this shiny ol’ sun of ours to be a fine time for tidying up, optimizing, and getting good and organized for the months ahead. And while I’d love to pretend I’m the type of person who has one of those disgustingly pristine, clutter-free desks you see on the internet, let me be brutally honest: The physical space around me tends to resemble a half-abandoned hog parlor.

But my Android phone? My Android phone is as orderly as can be, gosh darn it. And if you ask me, that makes far more of a difference than the state of the physical space around me.

Our mobile devices are where we do so much of our actual work and contemplation these days, after all — and yet it’s all too easy to overlook the importance of maintaining an optimal arrangement for both productivity and security within ’em. So now, as we gaze ahead at the promise-filled 2022 calendar, join me in taking 10 minutes to get your own trusty Android phone fine-tuned and fully ready for the coming year.

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MalwareBytes Security

Google sued over deceptive location tracking

February 2, 2022 0 Comments Attorney General, dark patterns, district of columbia attorney general, google lawsuits, indiana attorney general, jonathan mayer, location tracking, Privacy, texas attorney general, washington attorney general

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:21:52 +0000

Google finds itself at the center of a privacy related lawsuit on location tracking.

Categories: Privacy

Tags: Attorney General dark patterns District of Columbia Attorney General Google lawsuits Indiana Attorney General Jonathan Mayer location tracking privacy Texas Attorney General Washington Attorney General

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Microsoft Security

Build a privacy-resilient workplace with Microsoft Priva

February 2, 2022 0 Comments cybersecurity, data privacy day, Privacy

Credit to Author: Pooja Parab| Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Today, we celebrate international Data Privacy Day, which reminds us of the importance of respecting privacy, and enabling trust. Read the blog post to see how Microsoft Priva can help.

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Security Sophos

Human traffickers use social media oversharing to gain victims’ trust

March 18, 2020 0 Comments FBI, human trafficking, IC3, internet crime complaint center, Law & order, modern slavery, Privacy, Social networks

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:57:24 +0000

Posts about money or family trouble are being used to gain trust by those who force victims into sex work or slavery, the FBI warns.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/HfUZ3TW3ABg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security Sophos

Tor browser fixes bug that allows JavaScript to run when disabled

March 17, 2020 0 Comments anonymity, browser privacy, firefox, java, JavaScript, noscript, Privacy, security threats, the onion router, Tor, tor browser, vulnerability, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 12:16:27 +0000

The Tor browser has a bug that could allow JavaScript to execute on websites even when users think they’ve disabled it for maximum anonymity.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/es39u8LUhmk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Report calls for web pre-screening to end UK’s child abuse ‘explosion’

March 17, 2020 0 Comments age verification, chat apps, child abuse, child abuse imagery, child porn, child safety, children online, Cryptography, encryption, facebook, facetime, iicsa, imessage, Instagram, Law & order, messaging, Messenger, online grooming, online safety, photodna, predators, Privacy, snapchat, whatsapp, yubo

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:57:40 +0000

The IICSA report cited “unprecedented levels of depravity” and said that encryption is getting in the way of current screening.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ELFeXrr3UeQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Bring your own privacy: VPNs for consumers and orgs

March 17, 2020 0 Comments anonymity, anonymous, desktop, ip address, Mobile, Privacy, Private Browsing, proxy, remote work, remote workers, secure, virtual private networks, vpn, vpns

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:24:33 +0000

VPNs are all the rage, but they’re not without their problems. Where do you stand on the great “Should we deploy a VPN” debate?

Categories:

Privacy

Tags: anonymity anonymous desktop IP address Mobile privacy private browsing proxy remote work remote workers secure virtual private networks vpn VPNs

Security TrendMicro

Suddenly Teleworking, Securely

March 17, 2020 0 Comments Business, Privacy, remote working, Security, teleworking

Credit to Author: Greg Young (Vice President for Cybersecurity)| Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:58:12 +0000

So you suddenly have a lot of staff working remotely. Telework is not new and a good percentage of the workforce already does so. But the companies who have a distributed workforce had time to plan for it, and to plan for it securely. A Lot of New Teleworkers All At Once This event can’t…

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Security Sophos

GoodRx stops sharing personal medical data with Google, Facebook

March 3, 2020 0 Comments adtech, advertising, branch, braze, data loss, Data Sharing, facebook, goodrx, Google, hipaa, Marketing, medical information, Mobile, mobile marketing, personal data deletion, prescription drugs, Privacy, security threats, Social networks, surveillance, targeted advertising, targeted marketing

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:47:27 +0000

The mobile app saves people money but was letting 20 companies know who’s taking antipsychotics, erectile dysfunction and HIV meds, and more.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Mjy_qyNwWEk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>