Consent to gather data is a “misguided” solution, study reveals

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Categories: Privacy

Tags: Annenberg School for Communication

Tags: University of Pennsylvania

Tags: informed consent

Tags: digital consent

Tags: Americans Can’t Consent to Companies’ Use of Their Data

Tags: Lina M. Khan

Tags: Federal Trade Commission

Tags: Paul Schwartz

Tags: Neil Richards

Tags: Woodrow Hartzog

Tags: Robert Levine

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There’s a flaw in the notice-of-consent approach, and this is evident in the stark gap in knowledge noted by a recent study by the Annenberg School for Communication in Pennsylvania.

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The best Android password managers

Protecting your online accounts is more important now than ever — and in spite of some recent high-profile hacks, relying on a third-party password manager is still the easiest and most effective way to ensure your most important credentials remain secure.

Why? It’s simple: Reusing passwords puts you at a heightened risk for hacking. If someone discovers your password at just one website — via any sort of breach, be it large-scale or targeted — they can then use that same password to crack into your accounts at countless other places. It happens all the time.

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How to protect your privacy in Windows 11

From the moment Microsoft released Windows 10 in 2015, the new OS came under fire for the amount of private information it gathered from users by default. Over the years, the vendor gradually introduced changes to Windows 10 that alleviated some of those privacy concerns, but some remain — and most of those apply to Windows 11 as well.

Whether you think Windows 11 crosses the privacy line or just want to safeguard as much of your personal life as possible, we’re here to help. Here’s how to protect your privacy in just a few minutes.

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ACLU, public defenders push back against Google giving police your mobile data

The ACLU and eight federal public defenders are asking the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to exclude mobile device location data obtained from Google via a so-called geofence warrant that helped law enforcement catch a bank robbery suspect.

The first geofence civil rights case to reach a federal court of appeals raises serious Fourth Amendment concerns against unreasonable search and seizure related to the location and personal information of mobile device users.

Geofence warrants have primarily been issued for Google to hand over data about every cell phone or other mobile device within a specific geographical region and timeframe. The problem: location data on every person carrying a mobile device in that area is scooped up in a wide net and their data is then handed over en masse to law enforcement.

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A week in security (January 23—29)

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Tags: T-Mobile

Tags: ransomware

Tags: Microsoft

Tags: TikTok

Tags: privacy

Tags: Data Privacy Day 2023

Tags: Data Privacy Week 2023

Tags: Malwarebytes 2023 State of Mobile Cybersecurity

Tags: Riot Games

Tags: VASTFLUX

Tags: Grand Theft Auto 5

Tags: iPhone

Tags: vRealize

Tags: video game fish

Tags: credit cart theft

Tags: DuoLingo

Tags: K-12

Tags: Vice Society

Tags: Hive ransomware

The most interesting security related news from the week of January 23-19.

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