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Farid Mheir
February 20, 2020 8:39 AM
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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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Farid Mheir
December 18, 2019 7:50 AM
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A video explainer on the technology that’s changing the meaning of the human face.
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Farid Mheir
December 9, 2019 8:00 AM
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The Dark Web is real, and your information might be for sale there. Here’s what your data is worth. The simple answer is this: about $45. This is how much, on average, a full set of information for a credit card is selling for, including a name, SSN, birth date, and CVV.
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Farid Mheir
December 8, 2019 8:00 AM
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How to get off of people search sites like Pipl, Spokeo, and WhitePages.
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Farid Mheir
December 5, 2019 7:30 AM
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How creepy is that smart speaker, that fitness tracker, those wireless headphones? We created this guide to help you shop for safe, secure connected products. Smart home gadgets, fitness trackers, toys and more, rated for their privacy & security.
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Farid Mheir
September 9, 2019 7:18 AM
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We teamed up with researchers from New York University and the University of California, San Diego to find out just how effective basic account hygiene is at preventing hijacking. The year-long study, on wide-scale attacks and targeted attacks, was presented on Wednesday at a gathering of experts, policy makers, and users called The Web Conference. Our research shows that simply adding a recovery phone number to your Google Account can block up to 100% of automated bots, 99% of bulk phishing attacks, and 66% of targeted attacks that occurred during our investigation.
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Farid Mheir
September 5, 2019 7:40 AM
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Your web browsing history is the most lucrative piece of information that can be traded.
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Farid Mheir
July 30, 2019 7:20 AM
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On average, in the US, using those three records, you could be correctly located in an “anonymized” database 81% of the time. Given 15 demographic attributes of someone living in Massachusetts, there’s a 99.98% chance you could find that person in any anonymized database.
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Farid Mheir
June 10, 2019 7:35 AM
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Our tech columnist listened to four years of his Alexa archive, and discovered Amazon tracks us in more ways than we might want.
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June 9, 2019 7:32 AM
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Our tech columnist offers some practical advice for fighting back against iOS apps hungry for your personal data.
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Farid Mheir
June 8, 2019 7:28 AM
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The open source list of trackers that powers our browser extensions, Firefox’s private browsing mode, and other popular privacy tools can be found here along with a change log and notes.
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Farid Mheir
June 7, 2019 8:16 AM
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We ran a privacy experiment to see how many hidden trackers are running from the apps on our iPhone. The tally is astounding. Apple says, “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data — in a single week.
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Farid Mheir
May 26, 2019 8:06 AM
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I lost north of $100,000 last Wednesday. It evaporated over a 24-hour time span in a “SIM port attack” that drained my Coinbase account. It has been four days since the incident…
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Farid Mheir
May 17, 2019 8:07 AM
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Yes, we use data to make products more helpful for everyone. But we also protect your information.
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May 5, 2019 7:59 AM
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A family recently discovered a rude surprise at their Airbnb: a hidden camera disguised as a smoke detector in the living room. Here are two ways to check for cameras—in an Airbnb or elsewhere—using only an iPhone or Android phone.
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Farid Mheir
April 21, 2019 7:44 AM
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Passwords. We all have lots of them these days. And yet we're told repeatedly to not reuse passwords and to make them strong. For most of us, that's an opposing set of directives. Unless you have some amazing memory, there's no way that we mere mortal
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Farid Mheir
July 19, 2018 6:23 AM
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Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has today (11 July) published a detailed update of her office’s investigation into the use of data analytics in political campaigns.
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Farid Mheir
July 18, 2018 6:17 AM
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In May 2017 the Information Commissioner announced a formal investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes. The investigation is one of the largest of its kind and is ongoing. This page will be updated as and when developments arise.
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Farid Mheir
July 17, 2018 6:12 AM
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In May 2017 the Information Commissioner announced a formal investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes. The investigation is one of the largest of its kind and is ongoing. This page will be updated as and when developments arise.
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Farid Mheir
July 16, 2018 7:07 AM
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In May 2017 the Information Commissioner announced a formal investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes. The investigation is one of the largest of its kind and is ongoing. This page will be updated as and when developments arise.
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Farid Mheir
July 15, 2018 6:59 AM
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We live in a data-driven world. Almost every transaction and interaction you have with most organisations involves you sharing personal data, such as your name, address and birth date. You share data online too, every time you visit a website, search for or buy something, use social media or send an email.
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Farid Mheir
June 29, 2018 2:42 AM
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Many people, particularly older folks, proudly declare they avoid using the Web to manage various accounts tied to their personal and financial data — including everything from utilities and mobile phones to retirement benefits and online banking services. The reasoning behind this strategy is as simple as it is alluring: What’s not put online can’t be hacked. But increasingly, adherents to this mantra are finding out the hard way that if you don’t plant your flag online, fraudsters and identity thieves may do it for you.
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Farid Mheir
February 16, 2018 6:26 AM
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- Railway police have begun using facial-recognition eyewear to catch criminals.
- In tests the glasses identified faces within 100 milliseconds.
- Seven people have been arrested for a range of previous crimes, and another 26 were banned from travel.
- China has been ramping up its use of facial-recognition technology as it moves toward a nationwide database that can recognize any citizen within three seconds.
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Farid Mheir
February 5, 2018 7:03 AM
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KrebsOnSecurity has long warned readers to plant your own flag at the my Social Security online portal of the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) — even if you are not yet drawing benefits from the agency — because identity thieves have been registering accounts in peoples’ names and siphoning retirement and/or disability funds.
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from SocialMoMojo Comms & Content
February 1, 2018 12:12 PM
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Federal and state authorities are investigating the sellers of artificial followers and other fraudulent social media engagement.
Via Jessica Kelly
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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...