Security News
A proposal by a WordPress core contributor to treat Google's FLoC ad tech as a security vulnerability, and therefore backport an automatic opt-out to previous WordPress versions, shows the depth of community opposition to the technology. Now a WordPress Core contributor has proposed treating "FLoC as a security concern."
Microsoft has disabled Google's controversial FLoC browser-based tracking feature in their Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser. This month, Google began testing a new tracking platform called Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC, that places users in anonymous buckets, or cohorts, based on their interest and browsing behavior.
WordPress announced today that they are treating Google's new FLoC tracking technology as a security concern and may block it by default on WordPress sites. After Google began testing FLoC this month in Google Chrome, there has been a consensus among privacy advocates that Google's FLoC implementation just replaces one privacy risk with another one.
WordPress announced today that they are treating Google's new FLoC tracking technology as a security concern and may block it by default on WordPress sites. After Google began testing FLoC this month in Google Chrome, there has been a consensus among privacy advocates that Google's FLoC implementation just replaces one privacy risk with another one.
Google is bringing its Dinosaur Game to Apple iPhones as an iOS widget that you can add to your home screen. When Google Chrome cannot access the Internet, it displays a Dinosaur Game where you jump and duck under obstacles while waiting for the Internet to be fixed.
Google makes it easy to share text with friends and colleagues with a new Chrome 90 feature that lets you create links to selected text on a web page. This new feature is rolling out now in Chrome 90 and is built on top of Google's "Scroll-To-Text using a URL fragment" feature that they introduced earlier this year and is only available in Chrome.
An expired certificate has led to the repeated removal of linked American Express credit cards from user's Google Pay accounts. Starting yesterday, Google Pay users with linked American Express cards began receiving emails that Google removed their linked Amex card.
Google Project Zero will now give organizations a 30-day grace period to patch zero-day flaws it discovers in a new disclosure policy revealed this week aimed at speeding up the time it takes for patches to be adopted. Now research group is changing this tactic slightly, saying it will delay disclosure of the technical details of the vulnerability until 30 days after a patch is issued if that patch is created within the 90-day period, according to a blog post by Project Zero's Tim Willis posted Thursday.
Australian federal court sent a message to Big Tech about its willingness to act on privacy violations when it ruled today that Google had "Partially" misled consumers about collecting mobile phone personal location data. For Google to not collect a device's location data, the user needed to let their wishes be known in both the "Location History" and the "Web & App Activity" setting segments.
Australian federal court sent a message to Big Tech about its willingness to act on privacy violations when it ruled today that Google had "Partially" misled consumers about collecting mobile phone personal location data. For Google to not collect a device's location data, the user needed to let their wishes be known in both the "Location History" and the "Web & App Activity" setting segments.