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Canadian fast food chain Tim Hortons is settling multiple data privacy class-action lawsuits against it by offering something it knows it's good for: a donut and coffee. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation said Friday that Timmies' agreement still requires approval from the courts, but if given the go ahead, Tim Hortons mobile app users affected by the chain's improper data collection will "Receive a free hot beverage and baked good."
Google has added support for the DNS-over-HTTP/3 protocol on Android 11 and later to increase the privacy of DNS queries while providing better performance. Roid previously supported DNS-over-TLS for version 9 and later to bolster DNS query privacy, but this system inevitably slowed down DNS requests due to the encryption overhead. Moreover, DoT requires a complete renegotiation of the new connection when changing networks.
"Taken together, this means the primary digital threat for people who take abortion pills is the actual evidence of intention stored on your phone, in the form of texts, emails, and search/web history. Cynthia Conti-Cook's incredible article"Surveilling the Digital Abortion Diary details what we know now about how digital evidence has been used to prosecute women who have been pregnant. As Conti-Cook says, Ms. Fisher "Conduct[ed] internet searches, including how to induce a miscarriage, 'buy abortion pills, mifepristone online, misoprostol online,' and 'buy misoprostol abortion pill online,'" and then purchased misoprostol online.
The reversal, reported by TechCrunch, comes a day after the Italian data protection authority - the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali - warned the company against the change, citing violations of data protection laws. "The personal data stored in users' devices may not be used to profile those users and send personalized ads without their explicit consent," the Garante said.
Alibaba's financial services affiliate, Ant Group, has open sourced its "Privacy-preserving Computation Framework." A "Secure Processing Unit" that offers a "Provable, measurable secure computation device, which provides computation ability while keeping your private data protected".
The Privacy Protection Authority in Israel seized servers hosting multiple travel booking websites because their operator failed to address security issues that enabled data breaches affecting more than 300,000 individuals. On Thursday, Israel's The Privacy Protection Authority on Thursday confirmed the cyberattack, which is believed to be the work of an Iranian threat actor, The Times of Israel reports.
In 2021, the demand for data privacy jobs soared with no indication of slowing down and stemming from the proliferation of new government regulations and cloud migration. In this video for Help Net Security, Stephen Cavey, Chief Evangelist at Ground Labs, talks about how businesses and job seekers are not only prioritizing data privacy but using it as a competitive advantage in this rivalrous landscape.
Mozilla Firefox 102 was released today with a new privacy feature that strips parameters from URLs that are used to track you around the web. Numerous companies, including Facebook, Marketo, Olytics, and HubSpot, utilize custom URL query parameters to track clicks on links.
Brave Search, the browser developer's privacy-centric Internet search engine, is celebrating its first anniversary after surpassing 2.5 billion queries and seeing almost 5,000% growth in a year. To celebrate this success, Brave Software announced that Brave Search is finally exiting its beta phase and will become the default search engine for all users of the Brave browser.
Microsoft has recently added a new privacy feature that allows Windows 11 users to get a list of all the apps that have recently accessed their sensitive info and devices, including their camera, microphone, and contacts. Added in one of the June Windows 11 Preview Builds, it can now be tested by Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel.