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Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service
The new Outlook now appears to be a data collection service for Microsoft’s 801 external partners for targeted advertising.
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Your smart TV is snooping on you. Here's how to limit the personal data it gathers
You can't stop your smart TV from snooping on you entirely, but you can opt out of some of it.
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10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox
Firefox provides many advantages over Chrome, including being more efficient, so your laptop battery lasts longer. Firefox doesn't track your internet activity for advertising purposes. Firefox has better privacy controls, including container functionality and VPN, enhancing your privacy and security online.
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Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data
The agency opposes an amendment that prevents it from using data brokers.
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Norway Took On Meta’s Surveillance Ads and Won
Meta has long fought Europe's demands that it get people's consent before using their data for targeted ads. Then a Norwegian regulator threatened fines of $100,000 per day.
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Zoom is entangled in an AI privacy mess
The popular video conferencing platform's recent privacy and AI policy changes have exploded in the company's face. Here's what to know.
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Police Are Getting DNA Data From People Who Think They Opted Out
Forensic genetic genealogists skirted GEDmatch privacy rules by searching users who explicitly opted out of sharing DNA with law enforcement.
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4 Zoom alternatives with better video conferencing privacy policies
More than half of remote meetings are held with Zoom, but that was before privacy concerns disrupted its market. Now, it's time to look at other video conferencing services.
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Australian Government, Of All Places, Says Age Verification Is A Privacy & Security Nightmare
In the past I’ve sometimes described Australia as the land where internet policy is completely upside down. Rather than having a system that protects intermediaries from liability for third party c…
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Future of iMessage safe in the UK, as government backs down
The future of iMessage in the UK had seemed in doubt
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Mozilla study reveals that “modern cars are a privacy nightmare”
All 25 car brands reviewed raised privacy concerns regarding customer data.
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Why police use of facial recognition risks miscarriages of justice
The latest generation of police surveillance tools are overused, underregulated and often completely wrong, opponents tell Josh Marcus and Alex Woodward
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Encryption services are sending the right message to the quantum codebreakers
Quantum computers may still be years away, but it’s prudent that end-to-end encryption providers are ramping up defences
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Apple AirTags stalking led to ruin and murders, lawsuit says
Dozens join lawsuit alleging Apple AirTags are stalkers’ “weapon of choice.”
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Google plans to test proxy scheme to hide IP addresses
Plan for Chrome echoes Apple iCloud Private Relay
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Telemarketer goes belly-up after data breach
Sensitive details of charity donors leaked and also sensitive employee information had also been leaked during the attack – including police checks, child support documents, HR incidents, immigration sponsorship details, COVID-19 vaccination credentials, and notably, tax file numbers, passports, and licences.
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Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection
Irish eyes may not be smiling
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European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying
European Union Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders recently told German newspaper 'Welt am Sonntag' that the European Commission is aware of how annoying cookie consent banners have become...
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Everything you need to know about PRISM
Since September 11th, 2001, the United States government has dramatically increased the ability of its intelligence agencies to collect and investigate information on both foreign subjects and US citizens. Some of these surveillance programs, including a secret program called PRISM, capture the private data of citizens who are not suspected of any connection to terrorism or any wrongdoing.
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NSA chief slams "transparency culture," compares Snowden to Boston bombers
The former head of the National Security Agency (NSA) has compared Edward Snowden, who leaked a host of the agency's top secret documents, to both "the Boston bombers" and Benedict Arnold.
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