Tag: privacy
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This VPN Lets You Verify Your Business Privacy For $130
VP.NET makes VPN privacy verifiable, not just policy-based, with secure enclave tech for up to five devices. The post This VPN Lets You Verify Your Business Privacy For $130 appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/vpnet-3-year-subscription/
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Chrome Privacy Concerns Rise as Expert Warns of Fingerprinting Risks
A privacy expert warns Chrome still allows browser fingerprinting and tracking, raising concerns after Google’s shift away from third-party cookie changes. The post Chrome Privacy Concerns Rise as Expert Warns of Fingerprinting Risks appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-chrome-browser-fingerprinting-privacy-concerns/
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Italian regulator fines national postal service orgs $15 million for data privacy violations
The regulator fined Poste Italiane SpA, the postal service provider, Euro6.6 million ($7.8 million) and Postepay SpA, a digital payments subsidiary, Euro5.9 million ($7 million) for allegedly illegally processing millions of users’ personal data. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/italian-regulator-fines-postal-service-orgs-15-million-privacy
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Trump Taxes and the Price of Privacy
Data breach litigation faces a valuation crisis as courts and the Trump v. IRS case grapple with the “concrete harm” requirement and the actual dollar value of privacy. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/trump-taxes-and-the-price-of-privacy/
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Google Blocks 8.3B Policy-Violating Ads in 2025, Launches Android 17 Privacy Overhaul
Google this week announced a new set of Play policy updates to strengthen user privacy and protect businesses against fraud, even as it revealed it blocked or removed over 8.3 billion ads globally and suspended 24.9 million accounts in 2025.The new policy updates relate to contact and location permissions in Android, allowing third-party apps to…
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From Analytics to “Interception”: How Website Tracking Became a Wiretap Problem”, and What Companies Should Do About It
There is a certain irony in watching a statute designed to prevent clandestine eavesdropping on telephone calls become one of the most aggressively deployed tools against ordinary website functionality. The federal Wiretap Act”, codified as part of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“ECPA”), 18 U.S.C. §§ 25102522″, was never intended to regulate marketing pixels, session…
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EU Age Verification App Breached in Just 2 Minutes, Researchers Claim
A highly anticipated European Union Age Verification application has come under heavy scrutiny after a security researcher demonstrated how to bypass its core protections in less than two minutes. The application, recently praised by EU officials for its robust privacy standards, contains severe cryptographic and design flaws that allow attackers to easily hijack user identity…
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Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Privacy-Preserving AI Tool Execution
Learn how Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) secure MCP deployments and AI tool execution against quantum threats while preserving data privacy. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/zero-knowledge-proofs-for-privacy-preserving-ai-tool-execution/
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Big tech fails to opt-out users requesting not to be tracked much of the time, new research says
The audit from privacy organization webXray studied California web traffic in March and found that 194 online advertising services “ignore legally defined, globally standard, opt-out signals endorsed by regulators.” First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/big-tech-fails-to-opt-out-users-requesting-not-to-be-tracked
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Google Play is changing how Android apps access your contacts and location
Google’s new set of Google Play policy updates and account transfer feature strengthen user privacy and protect businesses from fraud. Google is also expanding features for … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/16/google-play-store-policy-updates/
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WhatsApp New Update Lets You Chat Without Sharing Your Phone Number
WhatsApp is testing usernames that could let users chat without sharing phone numbers, adding a new privacy layer now rolling out to some beta users. The post WhatsApp New Update Lets You Chat Without Sharing Your Phone Number appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-whatsapp-usernames-feature-privacy-update/
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Chrome Privacy Vulnerability Exposes Users via Fingerprinting and Header Leaks
A new technical review of Google Chrome’s privacy posture shows that modern tracking no longer depends only on cookies, because websites can combine browser fingerprinting, storage tricks, and HTTP header leaks to identify users with surprising accuracy. Chrome has reduced some obvious signals, but many high-value surfaces such as canvas rendering, WebGL, audio processing, Client…
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Audit: Big Tech Often Ignores CA Privacy Law Opt-Out Requests
Google, Meta, and Microsoft about half the time don’t comply with requests to opt out of online tracking per a California law mandate, privacy watchdog finds. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/audit-big-tech-ignores-data-collection-requests
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Privacy-Preserving Data Analytics: Stop Collecting What You Do Not Need
There is an almost reflexive habit in data engineering: whenever you instrument an event, you attach a user ID. It feels natural. User IDs are how you join tables, track behavior, and measure engagement. The problem is that most teams attach them without ever asking whether they actually need them. That habit is becoming expensive……
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Meta soll auf Gesichtserkennung bei Smart Glasses verzichten
Tags: privacyBürgerrechtsorganisationen warnen: Die Gesichtserkennung bei Metas Smart Glasses sei eine Gefahr für die Privatsphäre – vor allem für bestimmte Gruppen. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/buergerrechtsorganisationen-meta-soll-auf-gesichtserkennung-bei-smart-glasses-verzichten-2604-207541.html
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Lawsuit: AI Illegally Recorded Doctor-Patient Encounters
Patients Allege Health Entities Did Not Get Consent to Record Conversations. Proposed federal class action litigation alleges that two California healthcare organizations violated patient privacy in their use of an AI-enabled ambient tool that records, transcribes, and processes sensitive conversations between clinicians and patients without individuals’ consent. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/lawsuit-ai-illegally-recorded-doctor-patient-encounters-a-31408
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iPhone forensics expose Signal messages after app removal in U.S. case
An FBI case in Texas shows Signal messages can still be recovered from iPhones even after app uninstall, via system artifacts, challenging privacy assumptions. The recent revelations about FBI forensic access to Signal messages on an iPhone have reignited a long-standing misunderstanding about mobile privacy: the belief that disappearing messages and encrypted apps guarantee that…
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Elon Musk Announces XChat Launch With Self-Destructing Messages
Elon Musk has officially announced the launch of XChat, a new secure messaging application scheduled to release on iOS devices on April 17. The platform builds upon the existing direct messaging infrastructure of X (formerly Twitter) but introduces a dedicated environment with advanced privacy controls. This launch represents a significant milestone in Musk’s long-term vision…
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The Dark Web Explained with John Hammond
The dark web is often misunderstood, but it plays an important role in both privacy technology and cybercrime activity. In this episode, Tom Eston speaks with cybersecurity researcher and educator John Hammond about what the dark web actually is and how it has evolved in recent years. The discussion covers underground marketplaces, ransomware leak sites,……
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Big Tech, Big Exposure: Data from Over 3.5 Million Accounts Handed to US Authorities
New research from digital privacy firm Proton has revealed the staggering scale of how Google, Apple, and Meta share user data with US government authorities, and the numbers are only growing. According to the findings, the three tech giants have collectively handed over data from more than 3.5 million user accounts over the past decade,…
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TDL 019 – The Psychology Behind a Cyber Breach and the Leaders Who Survive It – Nim Nadarajah
Tags: access, ai, apple, automation, breach, business, cctv, ceo, cio, ciso, cloud, computing, conference, control, corporate, crowdstrike, cve, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, dns, edr, email, finance, firewall, governance, group, healthcare, incident, incident response, infrastructure, injection, insurance, Internet, jobs, law, LLM, metric, microsoft, msp, network, office, powershell, privacy, programming, psychology, risk, saas, service, siem, soar, soc, software, startup, strategy, supply-chain, switch, technology, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability, windows, zero-trustLeading Through the Cyber Abyss In Episode 019 of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with Nim Nadarajah, CISO and Managing Partner of Critical Matrix, to explore the evolving landscape of cybersecurity leadership. From the “annual pilgrimage” of RSAC 2026 to the front lines of incident response, the conversation shifts from technical bits…
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TDL 019 – The Psychology Behind a Cyber Breach and the Leaders Who Survive It – Nim Nadarajah
Tags: access, ai, apple, automation, breach, business, cctv, ceo, cio, ciso, cloud, computing, conference, control, corporate, crowdstrike, cve, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, dns, edr, email, finance, firewall, governance, group, healthcare, incident, incident response, infrastructure, injection, insurance, Internet, jobs, law, LLM, metric, microsoft, msp, network, office, powershell, privacy, programming, psychology, risk, saas, service, siem, soar, soc, software, startup, strategy, supply-chain, switch, technology, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability, windows, zero-trustLeading Through the Cyber Abyss In Episode 019 of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with Nim Nadarajah, CISO and Managing Partner of Critical Matrix, to explore the evolving landscape of cybersecurity leadership. From the “annual pilgrimage” of RSAC 2026 to the front lines of incident response, the conversation shifts from technical bits…
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When Privacy Laws Force You to Know Too Much: The Perverse Incentives of Age Verification Regimes
How modern age-verification laws, like the California Digital Age Assurance Act, dismantle the principle of data minimization by mandating the collection of sensitive personal data, effectively turning “don’t know” into “must know” and knowledge into liability. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/when-privacy-laws-force-you-to-know-too-much-the-perverse-incentives-of-age-verification-regimes/
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WhatsApp Adds Username Feature to Boost Privacy and Reduce Number Sharing
For years, WhatsApp required users to share their personal phone numbers to communicate. This is finally changing. To improve user privacy and mitigate risks like doxing or targeted spam, WhatsApp is rolling out a highly anticipated username feature. This update allows individuals to connect without exposing their phone numbers, offering a new layer of anonymity…
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The Cybersecurity Readiness Gap: Why 90% of Companies Are Still Unprepared in 2026
The Cybersecurity Readiness Gap: Why 90% of Companies Are Still Unprepared in 2026 The cybersecurity landscape of 2026 is defined by a staggering paradox: while organizations are investing more than ever in defense, the “readiness gap” continues to widen. Despite the availability of advanced tools, 90% of organizations still rely on passwords as their primary…The…
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WhatsApp brings long-awaited privacy feature to filter who can reach you
After years of waiting, WhatsApp is set to roll out a username feature that will allow people to connect and communicate without sharing their phone numbers. This means more … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/09/whatsapp-username-privacy-feature/
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Questions raised about how LinkedIn uses the petabytes of data it collects
CSOonline. “We do disclose that we scan for browser extensions in our privacy policy, in order to detect abuse and provide defense for site stability.” When asked whether it uses that data solely to do those things, LinkedIn did not reply. The key person behind the allegations calls himself Steven Morrell (not his legal name, which…
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Smashing Security podcast #462: LinkedIn is spying on you, and you agreed to nothing
LinkedIn has been secretly scanning your browser for over 6,000 installed extensions, on every single click you make. It can tell if you’re job hunting, what religion you are, and whether you have ADHD. And none of this is mentioned anywhere in their privacy policy. First seen on grahamcluley.com Jump to article: grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-462/