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

Spain: AEPD publishes guide on audience measurement cookies
Dataguidance.com · 2024-01-24 2 min You will receive an activation email shortly with verification instructionsCreate an accountJoin our community for free to access exclusive whitepapers, reports, and regulatory information. *First Name *Last Name *Work E-mail *Company *Country Phone (Optional) At least one upperc

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

Google rolls out Privacy Sandbox to use Chrome browsing history for ads
Bleepingcomputer.com · 2023-09-10 5 min Google has started to roll out its new interest-based advertising platform called the Privacy Sandbox, shifting the tracking of user's interests from third-party cookies to the Chrome browser.When starting the Google Chrome browser, users will now see an alert titled 'Enhanced ad

Katharina Koerner on LinkedIn: Algorithms that remember
Linkedin.com · 2023-06-23 2 min Katharina KoernerAI for Humanity, Privacy Tech/PPML, Responsible AI, PETs, AI Governance, Security• Community advocate • Bridging the world between privacy, policy, and IT1h This paper from 2018 was ahead of its time by analyzing the highly up-to-date question of whether mach

Criminalization of encryption : the 8 december case
Laquadrature.net · 2023-06-06 27 min This article was written on the basis of information relating to the so-called “8 December” case1For a summary of the 8 December affair see in particular the testimonies available in this Revue Z article, this Lundi matin article, the following support committee articles (he

Stephan Engberg on LinkedIn: Why eIDAS 2.0 / EU Digital Wallet is Untrustworthy & How to Make it…
Linkedin.com · 2023-04-03 2 min Stephan EngbergSpecialist in trustworthy identity, security and data sharing10mo EditedTrustworthy PKI is a game changer. A lot of problems in the world can be traced back to one and the same problem - how to balance presumably contradicting security problems. Discussions about c

VW WOULDN'T HELP FIND KIDNAPPED CHILD BECAUSE HIS MOTHER WASN'T PAYING FOR FIND MY CAR SUBSCRIPTION
Pluralistic.net · 2023-02-28 9 min Today's links VW wouldn't help find kidnapped child because his mother wasn't paying for find-my-car subscription: All the harms of surveillance, none of the benefits. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publicati

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

EU chat control law will ban open source operating systems Blog | Mullvad VPN
Mullvad.net · 2023-02-02 3 min Update: Open source OSes might be saved from being covered depending on the interpretation of EU regulation 2019/1150 2.2.c.To be considered an online intermediation service it requires a contractual relationship between the service and any businesses using it. The open source li

How to legally use Google Analytics in Europe
Vischer.com · 2023-01-18 39 min Many website operators in Europe are at a loss: Is Google Analytics illegal? This is what recent decisions and statements by European Data Protection Authorities suggest, and some of them even say so directly. On closer inspection the situation is less black and white. Google A

Cybersecurity: EU bans anonymous Internet sites
Patrick-breyer.de · 2022-11-10 3 min The EU Parliament today approved the directive to increase cyber security (“NIS 2”) by a large majority. According to it, the registration of internet domain names shall in the future require the correct identification of the owner in the Whois database (Article 28). The obli

Filtrare le chiamate prima di rispondere
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Google urged to stop collecting phone location data before Roe v. Wade reversal
Arstechnica.com · 2022-05-26 5 min Enlarge / A pro-choice demonstrator in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on May 11, 2022. Getty Images | Stefani Reynolds More than 40 Democratic members of Congress called on Google to stop collecting and retaining customer location data that prosecutors could use

Google Is Sharing Our Data at a Startling Scale
Washingtonpost.com · 2022-05-17 5 min Along with the Pixel phones, watches and earbuds at Google’s annual showcase of software and devices last week came a pair of nifty-looking translation glasses. Put them on and real-time “subtitles” appear on the lenses as you watch a person speaking in a different languag

Tykn is creating a future of opportunity through digital identity
Tykn.tech · 2022-05-17 < 1 min The adoption of Decentralized Identity technology, also known as Self-Sovereign Identity, is rampantly growing around the world. In this report we bring you its most notable implementations in different verticals: Government, Banking, Higher Education, Healthcare, Human Reso

Toolkit for organisations considering using data analytics
Ico.org.uk · 2022-02-04 3 min Who is the toolkit for?The toolkit will be most helpful to you if your organisation is at the beginning of your data analytics project lifecycle. It will help you to recognise some of the central risks to the rights and freedoms of individuals created by the use of data a