Vox: “How design can manipulate and coerce you into doing what websites want. If you’re an Instagram user, you may have recently seen a pop-up asking if you want the service to “use your app and website activity” to “provide a better ads experience.” At the bottom there are two boxes: In a slightly darker… Continue Reading
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12 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do in Firefox
Gizmodo: “We’re coming up on the 20th anniversary of Mozilla’s Firefox web browser next year, and a lot of features have come and gone in that time. If you’re using Firefox as your daily driver, make sure you’re using it to its full potential by checking out some of these lesser-known tools, options, and features…” Continue Reading
What You Need to Know About Your Vaccine Card
The New York Times – “For now, the best way to show that you’ve been inoculated against the coronavirus is a simple white card. Here, your key questions answered. As vaccinations become more widely available for people in the United States and travel starts picking up, many people have started sharing their simple white vaccination… Continue Reading
If You Care About Privacy, It’s Time to Try a New Web Browser
The New York Times – “Most of us use web browsers out of habit. If you surf the web with Microsoft Edge, that may be because you use Windows. If you use Safari, that’s probably because you are an Apple customer. If you are a Chrome user, that could be because you have a Google… Continue Reading
CRS – Biometric Technologies and Global Security
CRS In Focus – Biometric Technologies and Global Security March 30, 2021: “Biometric technologies use unique biological or behavioral attributes—such as DNA, fingerprints, cardiac signatures, voice or gait patterns, and facial or ocular measurements—to authenticate an individual’s identity. Although biometric technologies have been in use for decades, recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and Big… Continue Reading
How Strong is Your Password? Use These 4 Tools to Find Out
MakeUseOf: “Creating and maintaining a strong password is a modern-day necessity. Like your house keys, a password acts as the main entry point to your online identity. That’s why cybercriminals are always on the prowl, searching for weak spots to crack your password and infiltrate your digital life. If you are worried about your password security,… Continue Reading
In bed with Google: Sleep Sensing feature prompts privacy worries
CNET – The search giant already knows what you’re doing for much of your waking life.” Google wants you to take its latest gadget with you into the bedroom. The marquee feature on the search giant’s new Nest Hub, a smart display released on Tuesday, is a tool called Sleep Sensing that tracks a person’s… Continue Reading
Five Tech Commandments to a Safer Digital Life
The New York Times – We can survive a world of ever-changing tech if we remember these principles. “…Vijay Balasubramaniyan, the chief executive of Pindrop, a security firm that develops technology to detect fraudulent phone calls, said we should always remember that any piece of our identity we post online could eventually be used by… Continue Reading
Your Phone Can Be Hacked Remotely: Here’s How to Stop That
MakeUseOf: “We use our smartphones for almost everything—from paying bills to sending emails. Therefore they contain highly sensitive information about our lives. And if that data falls into the wrong hands, that could lead to quite disastrous consequences. Here’s how your phone can get hacked remotely and what to do about it…” Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 27, 2021
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 27, 2021 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly… Continue Reading
Location data is the new growth market
TechDirt: “Location data is the new growth market. Data harvested from apps is sold to data brokers who, in turn, sell this to whoever’s buying. Lately, the buyers have been a number of government agencies, including the CBP, ICE, DEA, Secret Service, IRS, and — a bit more worryingly — the Defense Department. The mileage… Continue Reading
Children’s Books Get the Algorithm Treatment
WSJ (paywall): “Goodnight Ninja? Knuffle Blobfish? Epic, a digital reading platform, tracks what kids are searching for on its site and uses that data to create new books; ‘Bug is higher on the list than crocodile’…The digital comic book passed one million reads in its first five days last week. Epic predicted as much. It… Continue Reading
