Enlarge / One hundred cardboard cutouts of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stand outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, April 10, 2018. Saul Loeb | Getty Images reader comments 58 with 41 posters participating Share this story Facebook’s senior executives interfered to allow US politicians and celebrities to post whatever they wanted on ..
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Microsoft this week announced that organizations can now enable their employees to make one-to-one calls on Teams that are protected by end-to-end encryption. First announced at the tech giant’s Ignite event in March, end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for one-to-one Teams calls is now rolling out to public preview. Organizations can take advantage of the new capability, ..
Snapchat’s corporate parent disclosed Thursday that its ad sales are being hurt by a privacy crackdown that rolled out on Apple’s iPhones earlier this year, raising investor fears that the app’s financial growth is going into a tailspin. The revelation in Snap Inc.’s third-quarter earnings report sparked a sell-off in after-hours trading that could foreshadow ..
Data privacy compliance startup CYTRIO this week announced its launch with $3.5 million in seed funding from Dreamit Ventures, Food Retail Ventures and Rockwood Group, as well as angel investors. CYTRIO was founded by Vijay Basani (chief executive officer), Pankaj Parekh (chief privacy officer), and Darshan Joshi (chief technology officer), who collectively have 50 years ..
The Linux Foundation has secured a new $10 million investment that will help expand and support the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). The funding will help OpenSSF focus on identifying and addressing security vulnerabilities in open source software, thus securing the software supply chain. The foundation is also working on the development of best practices, ..
The Microsoft Patch Tuesday freight train for October rolled in with fixes for at least 71 security defects in Windows products and components and an urgent warning about a newly discovered zero-day cyberespionage campaign. The Redmond, Wash. software maker confirmed in-the-wild exploitation of one of the patched bugs — CVE-2021-40449 — in an exploit chain ..
Smart city e IA, i timori del Garante privacy Le smart city sono il futuro delle nostre città. Un futuro tutto sommato vicino, prossimo al nostro tempo, in cui tutti noi, i cittadini, avremo modo di sfruttare i benefici di diverse tecnologie avanzate, tra cui l’intelligenza artificiale (IA). Il Garante Privacy, partendo dai contenuti del ..
Microfoni degli smartphone sempre accesi a carpire informazioni rivendute poi a società per fare proposte commerciali. Un fenomeno sempre più diffuso, che sembrerebbe causato anche dalle app che scarichiamo sui nostri cellullari. Molte app, infatti, tra le autorizzazioni di accesso che richiedono al momento del download, inseriscono anche l’utilizzazione del microfono. Una volta che si ..
Set 28, 2021 Marco Schiaffino In evidenza, News, Privacy, RSS, Vulnerabilità 0 L’azienda, che offre un software per spiare in remoto l’attività su smartphone, ha lasciato i contenuti disponibili per chiunque su Internet. Non è solo un fenomeno lesivo della privacy di chi ne finisce vittima: spesso quello degli stalkerware è un problema più ampio, ..
Roy Rochlin | Getty Images reader comments 93 with 50 posters participating Share this story In 2018, Oakland enacted an innovative law giving citizens a voice in police use of surveillance technology. The Electronic Frontier Foundation called it “the new gold standard in community control of police surveillance.” Since then, about 20 other cities have ..
