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The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data

October 23, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, accuweather, adx, android advertising id, app tracking transparency, apple, Associated Press, bid request, br24, daniel's law, Electronic Frontier Foundation, eva galperin, fog reveal, gasbuddy, google, Grindr, identifier for advertisers, judge andrew f. wilkinson judicial security act, justin sherman, justyna maloney, Latest Warnings, macy's, maid, mobile advertising id, MyFitnessPal, netzpolitik.org, scott maloney, Sen. Ron Wyden, silentpush, tangles, The Coming Storm, troutman pepper, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, webloc, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:30:18 +0000

Not long ago, the ability to remotely track someone’s daily movements just by knowing their home address, employer, or place of worship was considered a powerful surveillance tool that should only be in the purview of nation states. But a new lawsuit in a likely constitutional battle over a New Jersey privacy law shows that anyone can now access this capability, thanks to a proliferation of commercial services that hoover up the digital exhaust emitted by widely-used mobile apps and websites.

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In post-Roe US, experts share how to keep your data private

July 27, 2022 admin abortion, digital defense fund, dobbs v. jackson women's health organization, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, lock and code, lock and code podcast, period-tracking, period-tracking app, planned parenthood v. casey, privacy, private search, roe v. wade, scotus, search engine, secure messaging, Supreme Court, supreme court of the united states

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 12:58:50 +0000

As the US reconfigures its rules on abortion after the overturning of Roe v Wade, our podcast guests explain how to keep your data private.

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Ring shares data with police without consent (but it’s in good faith), says Amazon

July 20, 2022 admin Amazon, amazon law enforcement request tracker, brendan daley, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, matthew guariglia, neighbors public safety service, npss, privacy, ring, senator edward markey (d-mass.)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:12:11 +0000

Amazon’s Ring is in hot water after revealing in a letter to Senator Ed Markey that it shared data without permission 11 times this year.

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Roe v. Wade: How the cops can use your data: Lock and Code S03E15

July 18, 2022 admin abortion, COPS, Data Privacy, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, law enforcement, legal request, lock and code, lock and code podcast, podcast, roe v. wade

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:17:26 +0000

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss how law enforcement can now use your data, ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

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Would ‘Medicare for All’ help secure health data?

November 26, 2019 admin adam kujawa, amca, American Medical Collection Agency, blue cross blue shield, breaches, CMS, cybercrime, department of health and human services, dominion national, Electronic Frontier Foundation, gao, Government, government accountability office, healthcare, healthcare.gov, heatlhcare, HHS, insurance, interoperability, Malwarebytes, malwarebytes labs, medicare for all, online privacy act of 2019, os inc, prema blue cross, privacy, Security world, solara medical supplies, spectrum health lakeland, third-party services, wolverine solutions group

Credit to Author: Adam Kujawa| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:30:10 +0000

Beyond the usual arguments on this subject, we wanted to ask the question: Are there any security risks we need to be worried about if the United States were to switch to ‘Healthcare for All’ policies?

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Malwarebytes teams up with security vendors and advocacy groups to launch Coalition Against Stalkerware

November 19, 2019 admin coalition against stalkerware, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, european network for the work with perpetrators of domestic violence, g data, kaspersky, Malwarebytes, Malwarebytes news, Monitor, monitoring app, monitoring applications, monitoring apps, National Network to End Domestic Violence, nnedv, Operation Safe Escape, stalkerware, weisser ring

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:00:00 +0000

Today, Malwarebytes is announcing its participation in a joint effort to stop invasive digital surveillance: the Coalition Against Stalkerware.

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Malwarebytes news

Tags: Coalition Against Stalkerware EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation European Network for the Work with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence G Data kaspersky Malwarebytes monitor monitoring app monitoring applications monitoring apps National Network to End Domestic Violence NNEDV Operation Safe Escape stalkerware WEISSER Ring

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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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Privacy

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The lucrative business of Bitcoin sextortion scams (updated)

September 4, 2019 admin 163qcNngcPxk7njkBGU3GGtxdhi74ycqzk, 1KE1EqyKLPzLWQ3BhRz2g1MHh5nws2TRk, 3HXdb3HAw1wVzU9b7ZSigvGaStd8KoZ3zJ, bitcoin, Bitcoin sextortion, Blackmail, CCC, Chaos Computer Club, ChaosCC, Digital Shadows, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, scams, sextortion email, sextortion scams

Credit to Author: Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Sextortion scams are back on the radar, and many say they’re on the uptick. We investigate an email campaign to see how lucrative the business of sextortion can be.

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Scams

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