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Microsoft, Google and Apple clouds banned in Germany’s schools

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Did you know that Germany just banned its schools from using cloud-based productivity suites from Microsoft, Google, and Apple? The tech giants aren’t satisfying its privacy requirements with their cloud offerings, it warned. What are your thoughts?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 17, 2019

Firefox to include tracker blocking report feature

Mozilla has introduced a lot of tracker blocking protections into Firefox lately. Now, it is planning a new feature that will let you see how many online snoopers you’ve successfully evaded.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 09, 2019

Over 1,300 Android Apps Caught Collecting Data Even If You Deny Permissions

Smartphones are a goldmine of sensitive data, and modern apps work as diggers that continuously collect every possible information from your devices.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 09, 2019

Google University of Chicago Medical Center Accused of Sharing Patients Data

Google and the University of Chicago Medical Center formed a partnership approximately two years ago with the goal of finding patterns in patients’ medical records for medicine and to better understand disease.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 01, 2019

What Is Tracking Protection and Why Mozilla Enabled It by Default in Firefox

Mozilla has pledged to keep browsing fully private for its users, and with Firefox now becoming the only worthy alternative to Chromium-powered browsers, delivering on these promises is the only way to go.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 05, 2019

Apple, Google and others condemn UK plan to view encrypted chats

Major players within the tech industry have long-opposed the idea of government access to users' messages and chat conversations -- now they're continuing the fight with an open letter to GCHQ (the UK's government communication headquarters) lambasting proposals that could allow officials to eavesdrop on encrypted chats.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 30, 2019

EU-US Privacy Shield complaint to be heard by Europe's top court in July

A legal challenge to the EU-US Privacy Shield, a mechanism used by thousands of companies to authorize data transfers from the European Union to the US, will be heard by Europe’s top court this summer.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 28, 2019

All the Ways Google Tracks You - And How to Stop It

You're probably aware that Google keeps tabs on what you're up to on its devices, apps, and services—but you might not realize just how far its tracking reach extends, into the places you go, the purchases you make, and much more. It's an extensive set of data, but you can take more control over what Google collects about you and how long the company keeps it. Here's how.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 27, 2019

Google stored some G Suite passwords in unhashed form for 14 years

Google revealed that it recently discovered a bug that caused a subset of its enterprise G Suite customers to have their passwords stored in an unhashed — albeit encrypted — form for about 14 years.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 22, 2019

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Cache of 49 million Instagram records found online

A security researcher has discovered a massive cache of data for millions of Instagram accounts, publicly accessible for everyone to see. The account included sensitive information that would be useful to cyberstalkers, among others.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 22, 2019

GDPR adtech complaints keep stacking up in Europe

It’s a year since Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force and leaky adtech is now facing privacy complaints in four more European Union markets. This ups the tally to seven markets where data protection authorities have been urged to investigate a core function of behavioral advertising.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 20, 2019

Privacy concerns raised about upcoming Client-Hints web standard

Developers of the privacy-focused Brave browser have raised concerns last week about possible user privacy issues in Client-Hints, a new internet standard currently pending approval by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 16, 2019

Update WhatsApp now! One call could give spies access to your phone

On Monday 13 May, Facebook revealed that an “advanced cyber actor” has been spying on some users of its ridiculously popular WhatsApp messaging app, thanks to a zero-day vulnerability that allowed hackers to install spyware, silently, just by calling a victim’s phone.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 14, 2019

Study finds Android smartphones riddled with suspect ‘bloatware’

One of the oft-discused downsides of choosing an Android device is the phenomenon of pre-loaded “bloatware.”

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 13, 2019

Turkey fines Facebook for December 2018 API bug

The Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) fined Facebook today 1.65 million Turkish lira ($270,000) for an API bug that exposed personal photos of 300,000 Turkish users.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 11, 2019

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Only 0.25% of Reported Data Breaches Have Led to Fines Since GDPR

New data has discovered that a minute percentage of data breaches closed by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) since the GDPR came into force have resulted in monetary punishments.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 10, 2019

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Google’s case for privacy is more convincing than Facebook’s

Google, the search giant which has made its business to make money off our digital habits, is getting serious about privacy.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 08, 2019

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Nearly Half of US Orgs Not Ready for CCPA

In advance of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) going into effect January 1, 2020, researchers analyzed how prepared US organizations are for the new regulations and found that nearly half of all companies will not be ready to comply with CCPA.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 04, 2019

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Google rolling out auto-delete for your location and activity history

You may be pleased, or perhaps underwhelmed, by the news that you no longer have to remember to log in and delete the stuff you didn’t know Google was tracking about you.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 03, 2019

Microsoft: We promise you'll get better controls over how we use your data

Earlier this month the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) announced a new investigation into Microsoft's contracts with EU institutions, to check for potential violations of General Data Protection Rules (GDPR).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 01, 2019

Tails 6.2 Improves Security, Expands Multilingual Support

Tails 6.0 Released with Critical Security Updates, Big Improvements

Tails 5.22 Released with Various Updates & Security Fixes