FTC Order Will Ban Avast from Selling Browsing Data for Advertising Purposes, Require It to Pay $16.5 Million Over Charges the Firm Sold Browsing Data After Claiming Its Products Would Block Online Tracking | Federal Trade Commission
Ftc.gov · 2024-02-24 5 min The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider Avast to pay $16.5 million and prohibit the company from selling or licensing any web browsing data for advertising purposes to settle charges that the company and its subsidiaries sold such information to third parties

JShelter e il tracciamento degli utenti dei browser come Google Chrome con MV3 API
Jshelter.org · 2024-01-04 3 min Over the years, privacy and security-oriented browser extensions in the same category of JShelter (e.g. uBlock or NoScript, whose code is partially inherited by JShelter through the NoScript Commons Library), have been forced into multiple complex refactorings and modernizations,

Here's how to contribute — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
Fsf.org · 2024-01-04 3 min Did you ever ask yourself why online privacy is important and what can be done about it? Learn how the JShelter web extension can be part of your privacy protection tool kit, as well as ways to contribute, in this article.Protecting your online privacy has never been more importa

Presenting this season's online FSF bulletin — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
Fsf.org · 2024-01-04 2 min Screenshot of online BulletinAs I write this, we have received our first snowfall in Boston, MA, the city where the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has its cozy office. The seasons are changing, for sure, but the bi-annual routine of providing the public with articles about free s

Google attempts to defend Web Environment Integrity proposal
Theregister.com · 2023-07-28 6 min Google's Web Environment Integrity (WEI) proposal, according to one of the developers working on the controversial fraud fighting project, aims to make the web "more private and safe."Ben Wiser, a software engineer at the Chocolate Factory, responded on Wednesday to serious conce

Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP address
Github.com · 2023-05-21 1 min Back to Dashboard: SettingsOption removed from desktop browsers in uBlock Origin v1.38.Browsers now obfuscate LAN addresses by mDNS:Firefox: "Enable mDNS hostname obfuscation" Chromium: "mDNS service for IP handling in WebRTC" Option is still available in Android Firefox, because

MEPs seal the deal on Artificial Intelligence Act
Euractiv.com · 2023-04-28 4 min Following months of intense negotiations, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have bridged their difference and reached a provisional political deal on the world’s first Artificial Intelligence rulebook.The AI Act is a flagship legislative proposal to regulate Artificial

HardBit 2.0 Ransomware
Varonis.com · 2023-02-21 12 min IntroductionFirst observed in October 2022, HardBit is a ransomware threat that targets organizations to extort cryptocurrency payments for the decryption of their data.Seemingly improving upon their initial release, HardBit version 2.0 was introduced toward the end of November

EUR Lex 32019R0881 EN
Eur-lex.europa.eu · 2023-01-31 153 min REGULATION (EU) 2019/881 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCILof 17 April 2019on ENISA (the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity) and on information and communications technology cybersecurity certification and repealing Regulation (EU) No 526/2013 (Cybersecurity Act

Password managers for Nextcloud Nextcloud
Nextcloud.com · 2022-12-06 3 min Password managers for NextcloudRecently some of our users pointed us to password manager Enpass, which recently added Nextcloud support to their choice of cloud hosting solutions. As some of our users are probably aware, for the popular Keepass password manager there is an integr

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UBlock Origin Minus: an experimental Manifest v3 compatible extension gHacks Tech News
Ghacks.net · 2022-09-09 2 min Raymond Hill, the creator of the popular content blocker uBlock Origin, has published the experimental extension uBO Minus for Chromium-based browsers.The experimental extension is based on Google's Manifest V3 for extensions, which changes things significantly for extensions suc

Firefox Profilemaker
Ffprofile.com · 2022-08-12 2 min Fake another Useragent Using a popular useragent string avoids attracting attention i.e. with an Iceweasel UA. (keep blank to use the default)Block Cookies Block 3rd-Party cookies or even all cookies. Block Referer Firefox tells a website, from which site you're coming (the so ca

France’s CNIL warns over illegal use of Google Analytics – TechCrunch
Techcrunch.com · 2022-06-09 4 min France’s data protection watchdog, the CNIL, has issued updated guidance on use of Google Analytics following a decision earlier this year that found a local website’s use of the tool to be in breach of European Union law.It has also confirmed that it has since issued formal