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Facebook and Instagram ban alleged ‘brainwashing’ service

January 20, 2020 0 Comments ad targeting, brainwashing, facebook, Privacy, social advertising, social media ads, Social networks, subconscious influencing, the spinner

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 10:57:18 +0000

The Spinner personalises “subconscious influencing” for a specific target.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/mqrBZgA8Jh0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facial recognition is real-life ‘Black Mirror’ stuff, Ocasio-Cortez says

January 17, 2020 0 Comments AI, alexandria ocasio-cortez, Artificial intelligence, biometrics, black mirror, facial recognition, house oversight committee, house oversight committee hearing, joy buolamwini, Law & order, Machine Learning, meredith whittaker, Privacy, surveillance, willie lynch

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:59:27 +0000

“People think they’re going to put on a cute filter and have puppy dog ears, and not realize that that data’s being collected.”<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/WEGyDh5kmBU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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EDRi’s guidelines call for more ethical websites

January 17, 2020 0 Comments edri, ethical, european digital rights, Privacy, web developers, web development, web ethics, web guidelines

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:42:40 +0000

Recommendations cover areas including security and privacy while listing alternatives to free online services that slurp your users’ data.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/kpjTYPyRRG8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apps are sharing more of your data with ad industry than you may think

January 16, 2020 0 Comments adcolony, ads, advertising, amazon, Android, app privacy, appnexus, appsflyer, behavioral ad industry, braze, bucksense, California Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA, clue, data brokers, digital marketing bill of rights for minors, drug use, facebook, fluxloop, fysical, GDPR, Google, gps data, grindr, happn, leanplum, location data, Marketing, Mobile, mobile ad platforms, mobile ads, mobile marketing, muslim: qibla finder, muslims, my talking tom 2, mydays, neura, norwegian consumer council, okcupid, openx, perfect365, PII, placer, places/fouraquare, political views, Privacy, profiling, pubnative, qibla finder, receptiv, religious preferences, safegraph, sexual orientation, smaato, targeted advertising, tinder, twitter, unacast, verve, vungle, wave keyboard

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:43:44 +0000

Apps like Grindr, Tinder and Happn are (over-)sharing data about sexuality, religion, and location with a shadowy network of data brokers. And it’s not just dating apps that are doing it…<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/NPeC4ksaHAY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google to kill third-party Chrome cookies in two years

January 16, 2020 0 Comments chrome, cookies, fingerprinting, Google, Google Chrome, Privacy, privacy sandbox, Tracking, Web Browsers, web tracking

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:20:59 +0000

Google doesn’t want to block third-party cookies in Chrome right now. It has promised to make them obsolete later, though. Wait – what?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Wd6Jr8cQUKg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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College students call for ban on facial recognition on campus

January 16, 2020 0 Comments biometrics, college campuses, facial recognition, fight for the future, Privacy, students, students for sensible drug policy, surveillance

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:57:59 +0000

Fight for the Future is building on its success in pressuring concert promoters to back off of plans to use the technology at festivals.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/cPl_2EJ8pSY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Peekaboo Moments baby-recording app has a bad database booboo

January 15, 2020 0 Comments children online, data breach, data loss, Elasticsearch, online privacy, peekaboo moments, PII, Privacy

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:05:46 +0000

No need to wait until you’ve gurgled out of your mother’s womb to experience the joys of having your privacy breached.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/s_aas9nhhmI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apple says no to unlocking shooter’s phone; AG and Trump lash back

January 15, 2020 0 Comments #nobackdoors, alshamrani, Apple, attorney general william barr, backdoor, cellebrite, Cryptography, FBI, Florida, Forensics, iOS, iPhone, iphone cracking, Law & order, Mobile, mobile phone data, mohammed saeed alshamrani, murder, murderers, pensacola, Privacy, saudi royal air force, us naval base

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:52:19 +0000

Attorney General Barr and President Trump are demanding Apple unlock the mass shooter’s iPhone. Apple replies: You can’t break just 1 phone.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ZRh0_aJQATA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Lottery hacker gets 9 months for his £5 cut of the loot

January 14, 2020 0 Comments anwar batson, automated password guessing, brute force, brute force attack, brute force tool, computer misuse act 1990, cracking, credential stuffing, daniel thompson, dark web, data loss, edwin salter, hacking tool, idris akinwunmi, Law & order, lottery, national lottery, password reuse, Privacy, rosegold, security threats, sentence, sentry mba, stolen credentials, uk, user credentials

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 11:18:57 +0000

We don’t care how little you made from your crimes, the judge said. We care that you went after an outfit that gives a ton to charities.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/MQxKTz5FL8E” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Microsoft now reviewing Skype audio in ‘secure’ places (not China)

January 14, 2020 0 Comments audio, china, clips, Microsoft, Privacy, privacy policy, skype, voice assistants, voice recognition

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:51:15 +0000

A former contractor in Beijing: “It sounds a bit crazy now […] that they gave me the URL, a username and password sent over email.”<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/MmxOcairoTY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>