TripleBlind, a Kansas City, Missouri-based startup that provides data privacy solutions, on Monday announced raising $8.2 million in seed funding. The oversubscribed funding round was led by Dolby Family Ventures, with participation from several companies and angel investors. Investors include Okta Ventures, NextGen Venture Partners, Operator Partners, Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health, AVG Basecamp Fund, Anorak Ventures, ..
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A federal judge on Friday approved a $650 million settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without the permission of its users. U.S. District Judge James Donato approved the deal in a class-action lawsuit that was filed in Illlinois in 2015. Nearly 1.6 million Facebook users ..
reader comments 10 with 9 posters participating Share this story TikTok parent company ByteDance has agreed to a $92 million deal to settle class-action lawsuits alleging that the company illegally collected and used underage TikTok users’ personal data. The proposed settlement (PDF) would require TikTok to pay out up to $92 million to members of ..
Feb 26, 2021 Marco Schiaffino In evidenza, Intrusione, Malware, News, Privacy, Scenario 0 La ricerca di Kaspersky conferma l’abuso di software spia per smartphone nel settore privato. Peggio di noi fa solamente la Germania. Li hanno battezzati con il nome di Stalkerware e, secondo gli esperti di sicurezza, rappresentano ormai una minaccia per la privacy ..
An analysis of 40 COVID-19 contact tracing applications for Android has led to the discovery of numerous security and privacy issues, according to a new research paper. Contact tracing applications have been created to help authorities automate the process of identifying those who have been in close contact with infected individuals. Using a newly developed ..
TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance has agreed to pay $92 million in a settlement to U.S. users who are part of a class-action lawsuit alleging that the video-sharing app failed to get their consent to collect data in violation of a strict Illinois privacy law. The federal lawsuit alleged that TikTok broke the Illinois biometric ..
Feb 25, 2021 Marco Schiaffino In evidenza, News, Privacy, RSS, Scenario, Vulnerabilità 0 Il sistema di interazione dell’assistente vocale di Amazon con altre applicazioni apre degli spazi che i pirati informatici potrebbero sfruttare per attaccare gli utenti. Si chiamano “skill” e sono funzionalità che consentono all’assistente vocale Alexa di interagire con altre app. Un sistema ..
reader comments 48 with 40 posters participating Share this story I installed Firefox 86 on my Ubuntu workstation using Snap to be certain I wouldn’t accidentally mess with my working system configuration. Jim Salter Although Firefox 86 is the default download from Mozilla, the Snap store hasn’t quite caught up yet. I needed to snap ..
I cyber criminali non vanno in vacanza, non dormono e non si ammalano, sono sempre in agguato dietro ad ogni mail che ci arriva, ad ogni device connesso in rete, ad ogni transazione finanziaria e dietro ad ogni acquisto di prodotto o servizio. Il 2020 è stato un anno terribile, che ricorderemo per il resto ..
Mozilla this week announced improved user privacy in Firefox 86, with the introduction of a new feature aimed at preventing the tracking of users from site to site. Called Total Cookie Protection and built into Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) Strict Mode, the new feature was designed to confine cookies to the websites that created them, ..
