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Google has started to roll out its new interest-based advertising platform called the Privacy Sandbox, shifting the tracking of user's interests from third-party cookies to the Chrome browser. While Google states that the Privacy Sandbox is designed to increase privacy by letting your web browser compute your interests locally rather than through cookies, Apple, Mozilla, and the WC3 TAG have cited numerous issues with the proposal.
While smart speakers are only supposed to listen after being invoked with a "Wake" phrase, their data collection and who they share that with may surprise. A profound difference was also found in the amount of data requested from smart device owners depending on whether the associated app was installed on an Android or iOS phone.
Fully homomorphic encryption - a technique that allows data to be processed encrypted without the need for decryption - shows great promise in addressing the privacy issues associated with blockchain. FHE can enhance data security by allowing computations to be performed on encrypted data, reducing the risks pertaining to data exposure.
Today, OpenAI released ChatGPT Enterprise, an enterprise-grade version of its popular generative AI chatbot. ChatGPT Enterprise has enhanced security and privacy meant for business use and unlimited access to a high-speed version of ChatGPT's underlying large language model GPT-4.
Machine learning models are algorithms that process data to generate meaningful insights and inform critical business decisions. When these data sources contain sensitive or proprietary information, using them for machine learning model training or evaluation/inference raises significant privacy and security concerns.
The Indian President Droupadi Murmu on Friday granted assent to the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill after it was unanimously passed by both houses of the parliament last week, marking a significant step towards securing people's information. "The Bill provides for the processing of digital personal data in a manner that recognizes both the rights of the individuals to protect their personal data and the need to process such personal data for lawful purposes and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto," the Indian government said.
Especially on Apple gear, uni team says A couple of techniques collectively known as TunnelCrack can, in the right circumstances, be used by snoops to force victims' network traffic to go outside...
The overarching mission of the US-based non-profit organization the Tor Project is to advance human rights and make open-source, privacy preserving software available to people globally, so that they can browse the internet privately, protect themselves against surveillance and bypass online censorship. To infosec professionals The Tor Project doesn't need an introduction, but there's always other people out there who have never heard of it.
He emphasizes how a data privacy vault can reinforce customer trust by offering protection against data breaches and helping businesses comply with data protection regulations, ultimately leading to customer loyalty and satisfaction. Data privacy vaults are designed to store and manage sensitive data securely.
Legislation moves slowly, but in 2023 almost all five of the below regulations will take effect, making it a huge year for state data privacy acts. Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act: The second state privacy act, passed in March of 2021 and went into effect on January 1st of 2023.