Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:18:24 +0000
A letter sent to the Google CEO by Privacy International claims bloatware has allowed a privacy and security hole to open almost unnoticed.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/2m7OBQefjuM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:14:48 +0000
If that bill passes, you can say bye-bye to YouTube, says one content creator.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/fcctp3f85Mc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 12:22:36 +0000
It isn’t new, all the tech giants do it, and your privacy’s intact – unless you’re dealing in illegal imagery with telltale hashing.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Z3fh0bRjivU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 12:02:58 +0000
Google’s controversial voice Assistant is getting a series of new commands designed to work like privacy-centric ‘undo’ buttons.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/suVe_eSbeHg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 11:41:31 +0000
This could signal a renewed war between Apple and law enforcement over breaking encryption.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/TYQ-v0iT5FM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:29:40 +0000
The FTC can fine content creators up to $42,530 per violation – even though they don’t collect, receive, nor have access to kids’ data.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/_7NLfWyE57Q” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:51:23 +0000
A user reported to Google that he was seeing images from other people’s devices.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/obA4FzgLKds” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read moreCredit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 13:15:04 +0000
The past 12 months have been another bumper year for cybercrime affecting everyday users of digital technology. Trend Micro blocked more than 26.8 billion of these threats in the first half of 2019 alone. The bad news is that there are many more out there waiting to steal your personal data for identity fraud, access…
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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 03:00:00 -0800
Frustration over a growing number of privacy and security failuresin recent years is driving the creation of digital identities controlled only by those whose information they contain.
Known as “self-sovereign identities,” the digital IDs will be used by consumers, businesses, their workers and governments over the next few years to verify everything from credit worthiness and college diplomas to licenses and business-to-business credentials.
“We are slowly graduating from crawling to walking. It takes one to two years ’til we have reliable capabilities to spark meaningful decentralized identity adoption,” said Homan Farahmand, a senior research director at Gartner. “A major non-technical hurdle is for organizations to learn the concept and take the necessary steps to appropriately adapt their business processes to decentralized identity ecosystems.”
Credit to Author: Naked Security writer| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 17:29:39 +0000
Too much information.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/El1zwtrv6lk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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