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10 easy steps to make Chrome faster and more secure

March 24, 2022 admin Browsers, chrome, Productivity Software, Security

Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 03:00:00 -0700

Gather ’round, kiddos — ’cause it’s time for a story.

Once upon a time, Chrome was a lean, mean browsing machine. It was the scrappy lightweight kid in a block filled with clunky old blobs of blubber. People had never seen a browser so fast, so thoughtfully constructed! It stripped everything down to the essentials and made the act of browsing the web both pleasant and secure — qualities that were anything but standard back in that prehistoric era.

Chrome was “minimalist in the extreme,” as The New York Times put it — with “extremely fast” page loads and a “snappy” user interface, in the words of Ars Technica. Its sandbox-centric setup and emphasis on supporting web-based applications made the program “the first true Web 2.0 browser,” as some other tech website opined.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Employee monitoring risks ‘spiraling out of control,’ union group warns

March 4, 2022 admin privacy, Productivity Software, remote work, Technology Industry

Credit to Author: Matthew Finnegan| Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2022 04:40:00 -0800

An increase in workplace surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to widespread discrimination, work intensification, and unfair treatment of workers unless regulatory safeguards are put in place, according to a prominent UK union group.

The Trade Union Congress (TUC), which represents most unions in the UK, published survey results this week highlighting the use of surveillance technologies to monitor workers in a variety of job roles.

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ComputerWorld Independent

10 steps to smarter Google account security

February 26, 2020 admin google, Productivity Software, Security

Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 03:00:00 -0800

There are important accounts to secure, and then there are important accounts to secure. Your Google account falls into that second category, maybe even with a couple of asterisks and some neon orange highlighting added in for good measure.

I mean, really: When you stop and think about how much stuff is associated with that single sign-in — your email, your documents, your photos, your files, your search history, maybe even your contacts, text messages, and location history, if you use Android — saying it’s a “sensitive account” seems like an understatement. Whether you’re using Google for business, personal purposes, or some combination of the two, you want to do everything you possibly can to keep all of that information locked down and completely under your control.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Slack rolls out enterprise key management, but has no plans for end-to-end encryption

March 18, 2019 admin Collaboration, Productivity Software, Security

Credit to Author: Matthew Finnegan| Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 09:28:00 -0700

Slack has given large business customers control over the keys used to encrypt and decrypt data created in its team collaboration application.

The enterprise key management (EKM) feature was initially unveiled at the company’s Frontiers event in San Francisco in September, ahead of a closed pilot project; it is now available to all customers of Enterprise Grid, which is targeted at company-wide deployments at large organizations.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Does Workplace have a Facebook problem?

February 11, 2019 admin Collaboration, IDG Insider, Productivity Software, Security, software

Credit to Author: Matthew Finnegan| Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 03:00:00 -0800

Facebook emerged from 2018 bruised from a series of revelations that undermined trust in the popular social media platform and raised questions about its commitment to privacy.

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