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Google Chrome tweaks data privacy with FLoC technology

CyberSecurity Insiders

Google Chrome seems to have taken data privacy seriously as it is ditching its usual cookies technology to be replace it by FloC technology. Each person’s identity will be kept under wraps and instead their profile will be tagged with a number through an AI based algorithm called SimHash.

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Tracking the Trackers: For Better or Worse

SecureWorld News

The majority of phone users simply go about their day with GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and cellular data switched on all day. These radios are being tracked and tagged by marketers, telecom companies and individuals in an effort to resell that data to parties willing to pay.

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Blacklisted apps in corporate companies on Android and iOS devices

CyberSecurity Insiders

And Douyin, a successor to the above stated Chinese short video app is also tagged as a global hit, as it has found a second place in the list with over 55.8 But businesses banned them to keep a control on the flow of data to & from BYOD devices connected to the company networks and used by WFH employees.

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3 tips to top up your privacy

Malwarebytes

It’s Data Privacy Day—the perennial event that many internet users may have never heard of, but have strong feelings and opinions about the very things that birthed it in the first place. Every day is data privacy day. Improving your data privacy doesn’t have to be rocket science.

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Facebook Drops Default Facial Recognition Tag Suggestions

Threatpost

Facebook will not allow users to "opt out" of its face recognition feature.

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A private moment, caught by a Roomba, ended up on Facebook. Eileen Guo explains how: Lock and Code S04E03

Malwarebytes

This work of, say, tagging a cabinet as a cabinet, or a TV as a TV, or a shelf as a shelf, would help the robot vacuums "learn" about their surroundings when inside people's homes. In response to MIT Technology Review's reporting, iRobot stressed that none of the images found by the outlet came from customers.

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The DDR Advantage: Real-Time Data Defense

Security Affairs

DDR Knows What Your Data Did Last Summer Then, along came a revolutionary idea. What if we don’t protect the boxes but rather the data itself? However, DDR is one of the only tools on the market that can track the fire at its impetus, and that’s wherever data made its first wrong step.