Category «Privacy»

Justice Department Reviewing the Practices of Market-Leading Online Platforms

DOJ: Review Focuses on Practices that Create or Maintain Structural Impediments to Greater Competition and User Benefits – The Department of Justice announced today that the Department’s Antitrust Division is reviewing whether and how market-leading online platforms have achieved market power and are engaging in practices that have reduced competition, stifled innovation, or otherwise harmed …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Commerce, Government Documents, Internet, Legislation, Privacy, Social Media

Phishing Emails Have Become Very Stealthy. Here Are 5 Ways to Spot Them Every Time

Inc: “Phishing scams are nothing new. In fact, we’ve all heard about the “Nigerian prince” phishing emails that have been showing up in inboxes for years. Unfortunately, phishing attacks continue to increase exponentially in volume, and are considered a serious threat to both companies and individual internet users since they can result in devastating financial …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, ID Theft, Privacy

Viral App FaceApp Now Owns Access To More Than 150 Million People’s Faces And Names

Forbes – “And we thought we learned a lesson from Cambridge Analytica. More than 100 million people have downloaded the app from Google Play. And FaceApp is now the top-ranked app on the iOS App Store in 121 countries, according to App Annie. While according to FaceApp’s terms of service people still own their own …

Subjects: AI, E-Commerce, E-Records, Intellectual Property, Internet, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues July 19, 2019

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues July 19, 2019 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Privacy, Social Media

DataSpii: The catastrophic data leak via browser extensions

DataSpii: The catastrophic data leak via browser extensions Sam Jadali SecurityWithSam.com – Abstract – “We present DataSpii (pronounced data-spy), the catastrophic data leak that occurs when any one of eight browser extensions collects browsing activity data — including personally identifiable information (PII) and corporate information (CI) — from unwitting Chrome and Firefox users. Our investigation …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, Education, Internet, Privacy, Search Engines

FaceApp went viral with age-defying photos – users are encouraged to delete it asap

Washington Post :”…The app uploads people’s photos to the “cloud” of servers run by Amazon and Google, the company said, meaning deleting the app would likely make no difference on how the photos are used. In its privacy terms, the company said it can collect any of a user’s uploaded photos as well as data …

Subjects: Congress, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

Firefox to Warn When Saved Logins are Found in Data Breaches

Bleeping Computer – “Starting in Firefox 70, Mozilla aims to have the browser report when any of your saved logins were found in data breaches. This will be done through their partnership with the Have I Been Pwned data breach site. Mozilla is slowly integrating their independent Firefox Monitor service and the new Firefox Lockwise …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, ID Theft, Internet, Privacy

A Feisty Google Adversary Tests How Much People Care About Privacy

The New York Times – “Gabriel Weinberg is taking aim at Google from a small building 20 miles west of Philadelphia that looks like a fake castle. An optometrist has an office downstairs. Mr. Weinberg’s company, DuckDuckGo, has become one of the feistiest adversaries of Google. Started over a decade ago, DuckDuckGo offers a privacy-focused …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Privacy, Search Engines

To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public

Bloomberg – The tech giant doesn’t have to be dismantled. Sharing its crown jewel might reshape the internet. ” Recognition is growing worldwide that something big needs to be done about Big Tech, and fast. More than $8 billion in fines have been levied against Google by the European Union since 2017. Facebook Inc., facing …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, E-Mail, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues July 13, 2019

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues July 13, 2019 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy, Search Engines