Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Digitalization creates new forms of entertainment, advertisement, communication, and promotion. Then, the derived insights let you monitor market trends, customer behavior, competitor pricing, and other key data collected via market research. Why Choose Residential Proxies?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

Zuboff exhaustively documents how Google and Facebook created services that assigned value to each individual’s online behaviors, then, without really asking permission, swooped in to monetize this deep access to personal data almost exclusively to grow their advertising revenue. LW: What are the drivers behind this trend?

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Centraleyes

JULY 17, 2024

The Florida Digital Bill of Rights (FDBR) is a comprehensive data privacy law that will take effect on July 1, 2024. It consists of three sections addressing data privacy obligations for businesses, protections for children online, and government control over social media platforms. How do I achieve compliance?

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Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 2, 2021

Users must be better protected from the outset, and the only way to ensure that is to impose significant restrictions on data collection and usage by companies seeking to monetize or use it to their asymmetric benefit in any way.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 10, 2024

California is notoriously on the forefront of implementing expansive cyber privacy regulations and, in turn, prosecution through litigation and other legal avenues to enforce those policies. So, let's take a look at some recent California opinions on matters involving charges of various data privacy violations.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 7, 2024

Data brokers are businesses or individuals who collect and sell people’s personal information, including phone details and browsing behavior. In this post, we will look at how data brokers operate and some critical steps we can take to protect our personal information better.

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Centraleyes

JUNE 4, 2024

What is the Colorado Privacy Act? The Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), signed into law on July 7, 2021, is a comprehensive privacy legislation that aims to enhance data privacy rights for residents of Colorado. The CPA mandates compliance from both data controllers and processors.

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Centraleyes

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The law is particularly relevant for businesses across various sectors—such as retail, finance, technology, and healthcare—that handle consumer data on a large scale. With OCPA’s protections, consumers can enjoy improved data privacy while businesses gain a structured approach to handling data responsibly.

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Centraleyes

OCTOBER 13, 2024

These include: Consumer Rights : Kentucky residents have the right to access their data, request corrections, delete personal information, and opt out of data sharing for targeted advertising. This also extends to notifying users when data collection practices change. Why Should You Be KCDPA Compliant?

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The Minnesota Data Privacy and Security Act (MNDPA) is a comprehensive state-level privacy law designed to protect the personal information of Minnesota residents. It ensures that individuals can: Access their data held by organizations. Opt-out of data sales or targeted advertising.

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Centraleyes

JUNE 10, 2024

What is the Utah Consumer Privacy Act? The Utah Consumer Privacy Act, or UCPA , is a state-level data privacy law enacted in Utah, USA, aimed at providing residents with greater control over their personal data. Data Collection: Collect personal data from individuals.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 16, 2024

Privacy-oriented browsers also limit data collection and "phoning home" and telemetry activity on their backend (in this specific case, I am using "backend" to refer to the side where users don't necessarily directly interact with the browser), preserving your privacy as a user.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 15, 2024

“New Jersey has long been a leader in data privacy,” stated Brandon Pugh, CIPP/US, CIPM, R-Street Institute Policy Director for Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats. The bill requires a controller to conduct a data protection impact assessment before processing personally identifiable information.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Consumer Expectations Privacy Rights and Seamless Online Experiences An overwhelming 87% of consumers expect privacy rights from online interactions, with the most significant expectations being the right to be informed about data collection (55%) and the right to data erasure (53%).

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Security Boulevard

MAY 15, 2024

However, while these apps may provide mental health resources and benefits, they may be harvesting considerable amounts of information and sharing health-related data with third parties for advertising and tracking purposes. Note: Apple Privacy Labels in the App Store are self-reported by the developers of the app.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

As we know, a lot of this data is valuable to advertisers—this is what pundits focus on when they invoke the value of “oil” in discussing modern data collection—but this data is also valuable to an entirely separate group that has learned to abuse private information in novel and frightening ways: Cybercriminals.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 22, 2023

Before downloading First launch and set up Features Privacy Security Other The GOOD The BAD Final thoughts Overview Here's Waterfox at a glance. As noted later in the review, System1 had never (overtly) did anything to be labeled as “untrustworthy,” but suspicions persisted because of its analytics/advertising connections.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2023

The leaking/capture of metadata is just as privacy invasive as directly reading message contents in many cases, despite the downplaying by the entities who rely on data collection via metadata. Many free and popular, yet privacy-unfriendly email providers also use metadata - email headers. How to protect metadata?

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Here we’ll discuss the implications to the third-party tracking and data which has been most impacted by recent privacy regulations and protocols. First it is important to understand the different degrees of data privacy. Degrees of privacy. Data collection red flags.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Don’t get upset and ask again in 5 minutes (the software is #### normalized) Format: Advertisement mail:password Hackers give buyers instructions on using a compromised account: for example, they recommend not tampering with its owners’ chats and deleting their own messages immediately after each session with the chatbot.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Among them, the discovery that the app was not end-to-end encrypted as advertised, and that between 2018 and 2019, a “ZoomOpener” webserver module was installed on Macs that bypassed Apple’s security. Of course, the biggest impact of any such regulations will be on advertising-driven businesses. Zoom does not sell advertising.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 28, 2021

As thoughts turn to Data Privacy this week in a big way , GDPR illustrates it isn’t an afterthought. Grindr, the popular social network and dating platform , will likely suffer a $ 12 million USD fine due to privacy related complaints. The complaints themselves related to third-party advertising partners.

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Centraleyes

JULY 9, 2024

Key Provisions Data Minimization and Purpose Limitation: Companies would be required to collect only the data necessary for specific, disclosed purposes and use it solely for those purposes. Consumer Rights: Individuals would have the right to access, correct, delete, and transfer their personal data.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The company received a finding of law from the Swiss government that it will not be treated as a telecommunications provider, exempting it from laws that would mandate data collection. surveillance and accept GDPR as a global “gold standard” of privacy protections. are wary of U.S.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2023

In the wake of a leaked draft of the decision, Federal legislators introduced a new, targeted data privacy bill to protect reproductive health data. Immediately following the decision, countless individuals dropped their current period-tracking apps in search for another app that would promise to better protect their data.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

VAMOSI: That’s on the data collection side. There are also benefits to the end user as well, such as increased privacy. GRAY: But back to the quick thing you brought up before privacy requirements are going up, and that's a good thing. This is a federal data privacy law.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 23, 2024

But a new lawsuit in a likely constitutional battle over a New Jersey privacy law shows that anyone can now access this capability, thanks to a proliferation of commercial services that hoover up the digital exhaust emitted by widely-used mobile apps and websites. Delaware-based Atlas Data Privacy Corp.

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Centraleyes

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The Florida Privacy Act attempts to give consumers the right to opt out of sharing their data for targeted online ads, which are often collected and sold by companies to advertisers. This year’s version weaves together some strings of other data privacy laws in the US. Republican Gov.

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Centraleyes

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

What is the Montana Consumer Data Protection Act (MTCDPA)? The Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act (MTCDPA), which became effective on October 1, 2024, introduces a series of data privacy rights for Montana residents and compliance obligations for businesses operating in the state. Why should you be MTCDPA compliant?

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2022

Excessive data collection. Carr cited several incidents as evidence that TikTok has been dodgy about its data collection practices. ” The Senate and House committee members, cybersecurity researchers, privacy, and civil rights groups have flagged this as a concern. . In China, it is known as Douyin.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 29, 2024

They might say and reject the premise based on things like “Oh, Apple can’t look at my iMessages, and Google said it wouldn’t advertise based on email content some years ago, and my phone provider, I don’t think, is recording my phone calls.” And I think some people might balk at that. We talked about governments.

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