McAfee

JANUARY 28, 2020

It’s Data Privacy Day and when it comes down to it, most of us don’t know exactly how many organizations have our data—let alone how it’s being collected or what it is being used for. If there’s no reason why a service should have that data, use a different service (or, at least, give them incorrect information).

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

Another telling finding: some 65 percent of respondents indicated they were extremely or very concerned about websites and mobile apps that proactively track their online behaviors, while only 14 percent said they were not at all concerned. Paradigm shift coming. It’s critical that they openly discuss these fundamental consumer rights.”.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 31, 2019

A day after Facebook was dinged for shady iOS distribution techniques of its data-collecting research app, Google was discovered using the same methods for its own app.

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Threatpost

MARCH 27, 2019

The FTC is ordering seven companies - including AT&T, T-Mobile, Comcast and more - to outline what data they collect, what they use the data for, and how transparent they're being with consumers.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 22, 2023

PROS Light on System Resources ( ) Compatible with most Firefox Extensions ( ) "No telemetry" and "Limited Data Collection" ( this could change, given the first con below) CONS Bought by analytics/adverising company, System1, which is the same company that bought search engine StartPage. Additionally, the default search remains Bing.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 23, 2024

But a new lawsuit in a likely constitutional battle over a New Jersey privacy law shows that anyone can now access this capability, thanks to a proliferation of commercial services that hoover up the digital exhaust emitted by widely-used mobile apps and websites. Delaware-based Atlas Data Privacy Corp.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

But until recently, the VR privacy threat has remained entirely theoretical. Berkeley RDI is a preeminent source of open-access metaverse privacy research. To test the true extent of data collection in VR, we designed a simple 30-person user study called MetaData. The story is not entirely pessimistic, however.

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Threatpost

JUNE 5, 2020

Children's app developer HyperBeard must pay $150,000 after the FTC claimed it violated privacy laws.

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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. Untangling the multitude of privacy policies. What is GDPR?

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SecureList

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Data privacy issues are a concern for businesses. The privacy policy has this to say about it: “Private mode: no data collection. Such wording may indicate that the service collects the prompts to the chatbot, but there is no hard proof. You.com saves your chat history, but with some major provisos.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2023

Canada is going to ban the popular Chinese video-sharing app TikTok from the mobile devices of its employees over security concerns. The app “presents an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security,” explained Canada’s chief information officer. The app will be removed from government devices this week.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): MFA adds an additional degree of protection by requiring users to give multiple kinds of authentication, such as a password and a one-time code texted to their mobile device. Incident Handling When issues develop within the infrastructure of a cloud service provider, teamwork is required to resolve them.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

And these are benefits of you ensuring that you have multi factor authentication that your mobile strategy is solid, that you're, you know, one of the big things that we're seeing now is that almost every open source code library that everyone uses everywhere has multiple vulnerabilities in it. This is a federal data privacy law.

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