AI offers opportunity to increase privacy for users
Technology pundits frequently lament that our increasingly digital world has eroded consumer privacy by enabling businesses to collect and use […]
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Website operators are in the dark about privacy violations by third-party scripts
Recently we revealed that “session replay” scripts on websites record everything you do, like someone looking over your shoulder, and […]
Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype
In collaboration with Signal, Microsoft is introducing a Private Conversations feature in Skype, powered by Signal Protocol. Source: Signal >> […]
FTC Recaps Connected Cars Privacy and Security Workshop
On January 9, 2018, the FTC issued a paper recapping the key takeaways from the FTC’s and National Highway Traffic […]
Robots Talk to Telemarketers So You Don’t Have To!
Jolly Roger Telephone Company provides a bot service to help you deal with marketers and save your time. How does […]
How Meltdown and Spectre Were Independently Discovered By Four Research Teams At Once
The uncanny coincidences among the Meltdown and Spectre discoveries raise questions about “bug collisions”—and the safety of the NSA’s hidden […]
Tech companies can barely keep up huge security flaws
Security experts scrambled on Friday to try to reassure computer users worldwide that a newly discovered type of security flaw […]
FTC settles case on connected toys
Electronic toy manufacturer VTech Electronics Limited and its U.S. subsidiary have agreed to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission […]
Privacy of location tracking device owners threatened by ‘Trackmageddon’ flaws
A slew of online services used to manage GPS- and GSM-based location tracking devices have been found vulnerable to flaws […]
Belgian privacy regulator threatens fines for eavesdropping apps
The Belgian Commission for the Protection of Privacy has threatened to take action against eavesdropping apps that listen for what […]
Researchers develop data-portability recommendations for the cloud
The upcoming European General Data Protection Regulation enhances the existing individual rights by creating a new right to data portability. […]
Does Control of ‘Big Data’ Kill Competition?
The European Union’s competition chief is zeroing in on how companies use so-called big data, or enormous computer files of […]