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LLM Summary of My Book Beyond Fear

Schneier on Security

Claude (Anthropic’s LLM) was given this prompt: Please summarize the themes and arguments of Bruce Schneier’s book Beyond Fear. Then lay out the most salient criticisms of the book. Where possible, favor openness and transparency over aggressive data collection or restrictions which erode civil liberties.

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Changes in WhatsApp’s Privacy Policy

Schneier on Security

Some of the data that WhatsApp collects includes: User phone numbers. Other people’s phone numbers stored in address books. Diagnostic data collected from app logs. Under the new terms, Facebook reserves the right to share collected data with its family of companies. Profile names.

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Report: Recent 10x Increase in Cyberattacks on Ukraine

Krebs on Security

DNS stands for Domain Name System, which is like a globally distributed phone book for the Internet that maps human-friendly website names (example.com) to numeric Internet addresses (8.8.4.4.) But the data collected by Quad9 suggest that a great deal of low-level cyberattacks targeting Ukrainians remain ongoing.

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COVID-19 Vaccination Management Problems Have Created a Privacy Nightmare For Americans – Even Without Vaccine Passports

Joseph Steinberg

It is also not uncommon for firms in the healthcare vertical to symbiotically share various types of information with one another; private healthcare-related data is also almost always shared during the M&A process – even before deals have closed.

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Accelerate XDR Outcomes with NDR and EDR

Cisco Security

Achieving his tasks accurately is tightly coupled with his ability to scope and understand the impact of an incident and to gather all possible data from the environment which can be associated with an incident including devices, users, files hashes, email ids, domains IPs and others. Automating responses.

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Italy’s Antitrust Agency fines Apple and Google for aggressive practices of data acquisition

Security Affairs

” The Italian Authority pointed out that in the account creation phase, Google pre-sets the user’s acceptance of the transfer and/or use of their data for commercial purposes.

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Jail for consultant who scraped colossal trove of Alibaba customer data

Malwarebytes

Last March, the Chinese government published new standards for the collection of personal data, specifically defining “necessary” data collection. Chinese restrictions.