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This eBook will bring you up to speed on all things “programmatic,” including: the key actors and various ad formats that continue to unfold; different types of technological platforms and associated privacy considerations; and, measurement and pricing strategies that can help you to get ahead of your competition. 
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Jumbo, an app for iOS and Android, launched in 2019 with the promise that it would cut through some of that confusion. The offer was simple: download the app, check a few boxes and it would automatically lock down your privacy settings on platforms including Facebook, Google, Twitter and Amazon. Rather than having to hunt down every individual preferences screen and decipher which settings were innocuous and which were merely deliberately phrased to sound innocuous, the app would do it for you.
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WHY IT MATTERS: privacy is very important but it seems that the cure remains difficult. I have not tried Jumbo yet - I will - just to see what I will loose by being more private...
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How to get off of people search sites like Pipl, Spokeo, and WhitePages.
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WHY IT MATTERS: protecting privacy is a difficult task, sometimes an impossible one. Case in point this long list of sites you have to go through to opt-out or delete your data. We need a better solution...
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We’re rolling out two new features, Password Checkup and Cross Account Protection, to keep your information safe beyond Google’s sites and apps.
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WHY IT MATTERS: this simple extension will inform you when your user-password has been stolen - prompting you to change your password or take action. Must have for everyone.
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These are the steps you can take and the tools you'll need to remain anonymous and hidden online. Tor, VPN, burner emails, encryption, bitcoin, etc.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Discusses different solutions to remain anonymous online, from TOR to bitcoins.
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The short version: I'm loading over 1 billion breached accounts into HIBP. These are from 2 different "combo lists", collections of email addresses and passwords from all sorts of different locations. I've verified their accuracy (including my own record in one of them) and many hundreds of millions of the
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Pretty much your whole life is online and digitize today. Your only protection from crooks is strong passwords that you never reuse. This article provides in depth discussion on the millions of passwords that are being sold for few dollars on the dark web. It should help you understand why this is important and what to do to be more secure.
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Worried about new ransomware attacks infecting your systems? Learn how ransomware works + get tips to block ransomware and deal with ransomware recovery.
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Amazing reference concerning ransomware: what they are, trends, recommendations, etc. Very well done, very useful.
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Floodwatch is a Chrome extension that tracks the ads you see as you browse the internet. It offers tools to help you understand both the volume and the types of ads you’re being served during the course of normal browsing, with the goal of increasing awareness of how advertisers track your browsing behavior, build their version of your online identity, and target their ads to you as an individual. We want to assemble the largest amount of advertising data we can— and then not give it to the advertisers.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Knowing what information is captured about you, stored and the digital profiles that is created behind the scenes as you browse the web is a first step in regaining control over our digital twin so we can have better digital lives.
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Why #AdBlockers May be as Bad as the #Ads they are blocking: they need to make $$ using ads+tracking
For publishers and advertisers, Internet ad blockers are a scourge. But the blockers also have to pay the bills.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Surveillance is part of the web browsing experience mostly due to ads and social beacons. Trying to block them off not only degrades the user experience but may not provide the expected benefits as it may provide a different type of surveillance. Ad blocking does not appear to be the solution after all. So what can provide more privacy when surfing the web? The question remains open.
Jean-Marie Grange's comment,
December 20, 2016 1:12 PM
Maybe one solution would be for content publishers to offer the choice of paying a fair amount for ad-free content... http://sco.lt/7CrAVl
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Onfido delivers next-generation background checks, helping the world’s most innovative businesses verify anyone, anywhere.
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AI and Big Data are being applied to identity verification by a startup that has received 25M in funding and is poaching employees from Google.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT AI and other techniques will provide enhance capabilities to deter theft and privacy violations. They will become essential tools in digital transformation of businesses. For example, UBER is using Onfido to verify that people are who they claim they are, thus making their service better able to curb credit card theft, and protect drivers by ensuring their passengers can be tracked is they behave inappropriately.
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Have I been pwned? allows you to search across multiple data breaches to see if your email addresses has been compromised.
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Brilliant idea: a website that gathers all the stolen emails and private information, then warns you if your email shows up on one of these lists. Essential tool. Use it now.
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A while ago, all it took to be a great password manager was to keep your passwords in an encrypted vault. Now the best password managers give you the option to sync or keep them local only, change web passwords with a click, log in to sites for you, and more. This week, we're looking at five of the best options.
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Whichever you select, use a password manager. Do it now.
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Surfer en toute liberté, c'est possible! Il existe des alternatives aux Gmail, Slack et autres Dropbox, qui collectent vos données en échange de leurs services. Guide pas à pas pour reprendre le contrôle.
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(in french) Afraid that Google and others know too much about you? Want to know how to live and work outside of the major tools and solutions? This blog post offers a list of solutions to help you do just that.
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Open Source Biometric Recognition A communal biometrics framework supporting the development of open algorithms and reproducible evaluations.
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Face recognition, gender detection, and age estimation are all now possible with this open source suite of software code. This should pave the way for wide adoption in all kind of applications, from retail store security cameras to hand held camera devices such as the narrative camera or others. I can think of so many use cases - both good and bad - where this technology can be deployed. Just a question of time...
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/parashoot-smart-wearable-video-mini-hd-camera http://www.getperfectmemory.com/
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10 local and cloud-based contenders make passwords stronger and online life easier for Windows, OS X, iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone users
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Great review of essential tools in everyone's computer and mobile phone.WHY THIS IS IMPORTANTStrong password are our only protection for our digital lives and yet to many people still rely on simple and easy to guess ones. I wrote about this many times before http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-transformation-of-businesses?q=password, and this article provides links and ratings for different solutions on the market.And by the way, when possible, always turn on two-factor authentication : see http://sco.lt/6DAZgv
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WHY IT MATTERS: programmatic ads on the web is the new trend, accounting for 25% of all ads you see online. This primer provides an amazing overview of the issues, technologies and privacy compliance requirements. Must read.