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Brave browser will prevent websites from port scanning visitors

July 3, 2023 admin Brave, browser, local resources, personal, port scanning, privacy, profile, Site, track, tracking, web browser, website, websites

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We take a look at reports that Brave browser will prevent port scans of website visitors to keep them safe from tracking or other potentially malicious activities.

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Facebook gets round tracking privacy measure by encrypting links

July 20, 2022 admin ads, Brave, Facebook, Firefox, links, privacy, query parameter stripping, tracking

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:35:37 +0000

Facebook is reportedly switching out click identifiers for encryption, making it harder (if not impossible) to strip tracking from the URL.

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Long lost @ symbol gets new life obscuring malicious URLs

May 17, 2022 admin "@" symbol in url, @ delimiter, @ in url, Brave, chrome, Firefox, microsoft, motti elloul, opaque string, pale moon, perception point, phishing, rfc 3986, safari, Social engineering, Thomas Reed, Vivaldi, weird url syntax

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 14:41:32 +0000

A little-used feature of web addresses is being used to obfuscate malicious phishing URLs.

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A week in security (March 7 – March 13)

March 14, 2022 admin a week in security, autowarp, azure autowarp, Brave, brute force, bug-fixing time, dirty pipe, docs, extortion, Facebook, fake dating profile, formbook, google docs, HBO, Patch Tuesday, privacy, ragnarlocker, ransomware, RDP, Tor, Twitter, Ukraine

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 10:52:34 +0000

The most important and interesting security stories from the last seven days.

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Brave browser goes the extra mile to block third party cookies

March 10, 2022 admin bounce tracking, Brave, browser, link decoration, nightly, privacy, redirect tracking, unlinkable bouncing

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:46:49 +0000

The Brave browser is testing a new feature to stop bounce tracking.

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CEOs offer their own view of a US data privacy law

September 19, 2019 admin Brave, Brave browser, Business Roundatble, California, California Consumer Privacy Act, Center for Democracy and Technology, consumer privacy, consumer privacy law, Data Privacy, data privacy law, data privacy laws, data privacy legislation, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, EU, European Union, Facebook, Federal Trade Commission, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Maine, Montana, nevada, pay-for-privacy, privacy, Purism, Senator Ron Wyden, Technet, US data privacy laws, US data privacy legislation, US Federal Trade Commission, Vermont

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:54:43 +0000

Should this proposed privacy law come into effect, if a company violates that law, you, your neighbor, and your family do not have the right to sue them.

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What should a US federal data privacy law ideally include?

July 10, 2019 admin AB 846, AB 873, Brave, Brave browser, California Consumer Privacy Act, data broker, Data Privacy, data privacy laws, data privacy legislation, digital bill of rights, Disconnect, DuckDuckGo, European Union, federal data privacy law, federal data privacy legislation, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Ghostery, internet service provider, Lavabit, Maine, preempt, preemption, privacy, protonmail, Purism, right to access, social purpose company, US data privacy laws, US data privacy legislation, US Senate Judiciary Committee, Vermont, Vivaldi

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 15:00:00 +0000

What do small, privacy-protective companies think about a federal data privacy law for the US? It turns out, they’re all for it. Here are some of their ideas for US data privacy legislation.

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Max Schrems: lawyer, regulator, international man of privacy

February 25, 2019 admin Austria, Brave, California Consumer Privacy Act, CNIL, Compliance, Court of Justice for the European Union, Data Protection Directive, DPC, Edward Snowden, Europe v. Facebook, European Charter of Fundamental Human Rights, European Commission, Facebook, GDPR, GDPR fine, GDPR penalty, GDPR violation, General Data Protection Regulation, google, Information Commissioner's Office, Ireland, Irish Data Protection Commissioner, mark zuckerberg, mass surveillance, Maximilian Schrems, None of Your Business, noyb, NSA, PRISM, privacy, Privacy International, Safe Harbor, Safe Harbor Privacy Principles, Santa Clara University School of Law, Schrems, Security world, Vienna

Credit to Author: davidruiz| Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Almost 10 years ago, privacy advocate Max Schrems and the European Union began separate efforts to change the way the world thinks about online privacy. Thanks to them, we now have GDPR.

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