Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 2, 2021

Users must be better protected from the outset, and the only way to ensure that is to impose significant restrictions on data collection and usage by companies seeking to monetize or use it to their asymmetric benefit in any way.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Consumer Expectations Privacy Rights and Seamless Online Experiences An overwhelming 87% of consumers expect privacy rights from online interactions, with the most significant expectations being the right to be informed about data collection (55%) and the right to data erasure (53%).

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 16, 2024

Privacy-oriented browsers also limit data collection and "phoning home" and telemetry activity on their backend (in this specific case, I am using "backend" to refer to the side where users don't necessarily directly interact with the browser), preserving your privacy as a user.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

Zuboff exhaustively documents how Google and Facebook created services that assigned value to each individual’s online behaviors, then, without really asking permission, swooped in to monetize this deep access to personal data almost exclusively to grow their advertising revenue. LW: What are the drivers behind this trend?

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2023

In the wake of a leaked draft of the decision, Federal legislators introduced a new, targeted data privacy bill to protect reproductive health data. Immediately following the decision, countless individuals dropped their current period-tracking apps in search for another app that would promise to better protect their data.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The company received a finding of law from the Swiss government that it will not be treated as a telecommunications provider, exempting it from laws that would mandate data collection. surveillance and accept GDPR as a global “gold standard” of privacy protections. are wary of U.S.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 22, 2023

Before downloading First launch and set up Features Privacy Security Other The GOOD The BAD Final thoughts Overview Here's Waterfox at a glance. As noted later in the review, System1 had never (overtly) did anything to be labeled as “untrustworthy,” but suspicions persisted because of its analytics/advertising connections.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2023

The leaking/capture of metadata is just as privacy invasive as directly reading message contents in many cases, despite the downplaying by the entities who rely on data collection via metadata. Many free and popular, yet privacy-unfriendly email providers also use metadata - email headers. How to protect metadata?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Digitalization creates new forms of entertainment, advertisement, communication, and promotion. Then, the derived insights let you monitor market trends, customer behavior, competitor pricing, and other key data collected via market research. Why Choose Residential Proxies?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2022

The French data privacy and protection authority hit Google and Facebook with 210 million euros ($237 million) in fines. The CNIL fined the IT giants for making it difficult for visitors to opt out of the tracking cookies. “The CNIL has received many complaints about the way cookies can be refused on the websites google.fr

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 28, 2021

As thoughts turn to Data Privacy this week in a big way , GDPR illustrates it isn’t an afterthought. Grindr, the popular social network and dating platform , will likely suffer a $ 12 million USD fine due to privacy related complaints. The complaints themselves related to third-party advertising partners.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

As we know, a lot of this data is valuable to advertisers—this is what pundits focus on when they invoke the value of “oil” in discussing modern data collection—but this data is also valuable to an entirely separate group that has learned to abuse private information in novel and frightening ways: Cybercriminals.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Among them, the discovery that the app was not end-to-end encrypted as advertised, and that between 2018 and 2019, a “ZoomOpener” webserver module was installed on Macs that bypassed Apple’s security. Of course, the biggest impact of any such regulations will be on advertising-driven businesses. Zoom does not sell advertising.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Don’t get upset and ask again in 5 minutes (the software is #### normalized) Format: Advertisement mail:password Hackers give buyers instructions on using a compromised account: for example, they recommend not tampering with its owners’ chats and deleting their own messages immediately after each session with the chatbot.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

VAMOSI: That’s on the data collection side. There are also benefits to the end user as well, such as increased privacy. GRAY: But back to the quick thing you brought up before privacy requirements are going up, and that's a good thing. This is a federal data privacy law.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2022

Excessive data collection. Carr cited several incidents as evidence that TikTok has been dodgy about its data collection practices. ” The Senate and House committee members, cybersecurity researchers, privacy, and civil rights groups have flagged this as a concern. . In China, it is known as Douyin.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 29, 2024

They might say and reject the premise based on things like “Oh, Apple can’t look at my iMessages, and Google said it wouldn’t advertise based on email content some years ago, and my phone provider, I don’t think, is recording my phone calls.” And I think some people might balk at that. We talked about governments.

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