Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 13:34:51 +0000
Apple will soon be rolling out its promised child safety features in the Messages app for users in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 19:32:28 +0000
The NSO Group’s flagship spyware was found on a device in 10 Downing Street’s network.
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Credit to Author: Matthew Finnegan| Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 09:01:00 -0700
The California State Assembly is considering new rules that would offer workers greater protection from the use of digital monitoring tools by employers.
The “Workplace Technology Accountability Act” (AB 1651), introduced by Assemblymember Ash Kalra, would create a way to protect workers against the use of technologies that can negatively affect privacy and wellbeing.
The bill would “establish much needed, yet reasonable, limitations on how employers use data-driven technology at work,” Kalra told the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee on Wednesday. “The time is now to address the increasing use of unregulated data-driven technologies in the workplace and give workers — and the state — the necessary tools to mitigate any insidious impacts caused by them.”
Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 11:53:08 +0000
A US appeals court has ruled that scraping public data is legal. We look at some of the arguments for and against.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:11:47 +0000
We take a look at multiple posts made to Facebook claiming to offer up a PS5 after the death of a loved one.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 09:41:00 -0700
Apple CEO Tim Cook this week warned that regulators are on the edge of making poor decisions that will impact our future during a passionate speech in defense of personal privacy and his company’s business models at the Global Privacy Summit in Washington DC.
The thrust of Cook’s argument is that privacy and security are essential building blocks of trust for a technologically advanced society. But that huge potential is being constrained by surveillance and insecurity.
Credit to Author: Anastasia Starikova| Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 13:04:15 +0000
Answering the key questions about stalkerware in 2021: What is it? How widespread is it? How is it related to domestic and digital abuse?
Read moreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 10:48:05 +0000
We take a look at a collection of apps which were all harvesting user data via an SDK promising “monetisation”.
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