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Senior Chinese government officials have urged Apple CEO Tim Cook to improve the security and privacy features of his company's products. "Director Zheng Shanjie said that the Chinese government will unswervingly implement the basic national policy of opening to the outside world, and the National Development and Reform Commission will continue to support foreign-funded enterprises including Apple in their business in China," the post states.
Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to address a privacy-defeating flaw in its screenshot editing tool for Windows 10 and Windows 11. "If you take a screenshot of your bank statement, save it to your desktop, and crop out your account number before saving it to the same location, the cropped image could still contain your account number in a hidden format that could be recovered by someone who has access to the complete image file," Microsoft explains.
Microsoft is testing an updated version of the Windows 11 Snipping Tool that fixes a recently disclosed 'Acropalypse' privacy flaw that allows the partial restoration of cropped images. As first spotted by Windows enthusiast Xeno, Microsoft released Windows 11 Snipping Tool version 11.2302.20.0 yesterday to Windows Insiders in the Canary channel via the Microsoft Store.
OpenAI has disabled ChatGPT’s privacy history, almost certainly because they had a security flaw where users were seeing each others’ histories.
A severe privacy flaw named 'acropalypse' has also been found to affect the Windows Snipping Tool, allowing people to partially recover content that was edited out of an image. Last week, security researchers David Buchanan and Simon Aarons discovered that a bug in Google Pixel's Markup Tool caused the original image data to be retained even if it was edited or cropped out.
aCropalypse Now, starring any 2018-or-later device If you've owned a Google Pixel smartphone since the 3 series came out in 2018, bad news: any screenshot that you've cropped or redacted on your...
Tracking pixels like the Meta and TikTok pixels are popular tools for online businesses to monitor their website visitors' behaviors and preferences, but they do come with risks. While pixel technology has been around for years, privacy regulations such as CCPA and GDPR have created new, much stricter rules, making the practice of data harvesting through a tracking pixel highly controversial.
In today's digital age, cybersecurity and privacy have become major concerns for internet users. With the press of a button, DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials offers seamless protection from most 3rd-party trackers while you search and browse, access to tracking protections for emails you receive, and much more.
Google has announced the general availability of client-side encryption for Gmail and Calendar, months after piloting the feature in late 2022. The data privacy controls enable "Even more organizations to become arbiters of their own data and the sole party deciding who has access to it," Google's Ganesh Chilakapati and Andy Wen said.
In this Help Net Security interview, Royal Hansen, VP of Engineering for Privacy, Safety, and Security at Google, talks about Protected Computing, the impact of data protection regulations, and privacy in general. We need to ensure people can enjoy the helpful experiences the internet provides while having peace of mind that their data is protected, including easy-to-use controls for managing their own data choices knowing privacy is personal.