S3 Ep68: Bugs, scams, privacy …and fonts?! [Podcast + Transcript]
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 16:20:49 +0000
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Test your outrage over Google's new Topics advertising system
Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 04:00:00 -0800
Google sure has taken an awful lot of heat over its advertising practices lately.
But why, exactly? Today, I’d like to explore that. I’ve concocted a four-question quiz that’ll gauge your rage and help determine whether it’s aimed at the right source or perhaps misplaced. But first, we need to catch up on what exactly is happening right now and how we reached this point.
The whole recent Google advertising debacle started with the crumbling state of the digital cookie, y’see — the pressure for Google to move away from its age-old practice of using tiny (and rather tasty-sounding) tidbits of data provided by websites to see what sort of stuff you’re interested in and then show you ads that match those subjects.
Cellular networks revolt against Apple privacy moves
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 09:43:00 -0800
Every time Apple attempts to inject a little more privacy into the digital world, it faces pushback – but the evidence suggests opponents would be better off going along for the ride.
A bigger business with more privacy
Take Do Not Track for ads and the move to quash IDFA tracking in iOS 14. When Apple first announced its plan, critics across the ad industry complained it would damage their business.
Apple counter-argued that it would simply inspire advertisers to think more creatively about how to reach customers — while also providing more privacy to those customers.
Big Mother is watching: What parents REALLY think about tracking their kids
Credit to Author: Mark Stockley| Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 09:01:00 +0000
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| A new Malwarebytes survey lifts the lid on how parents are using technology to monitor their children’s activity. Categories: Malwarebytes newsPrivacy Tags: child safetymonitoringparents |
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Read moreLet’s Encrypt to revoke “mis-issued” certificates
Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:44:42 +0000
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| In one day’s time, Let’s Encrypt will begin revoking a number of mis-issued certificates. Check now if you’re affected Categories: Privacy Tags: certificatesecuritySSLTLSwebsite |
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Read moreHappy Data Privacy Day – and we really do mean “happy” :-)
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 19:34:14 +0000
We give you some simple digital lifesytle tips that cost nothing.
Read moreApple fixes Safari data leak (and patches a zero-day!) – update now
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:09:53 +0000
That infamous “supercookie” bug in Safari has now been fixed. Oh, and there was a zero-day kernel hole as well.
Read moreTax scam emails are alive and well as US tax season starts
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 19:19:50 +0000
If in doubt, don’t give it out! (And don’t forget that no reply is often a good reply.)
Read moreApple is sneaking around its own privacy policy — and will regret it
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.
7 smart steps to get your Android phone in tip-top shape for 2022
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.