Security News
In the never-ending battle for privacy on mobile phones, I seem to be forever searching for the right combination of apps and services to lift Android to a more secure place. Recently the privacy-centric browser took yet another step forward, one that had me immediately set it as my default Android browser.
Mozilla has announced the availability of a new free and paid Premium service, called Firefox Relay. You can pay for a Premium account where you get more aliases and can even create a new email domain for the aliases.
Heads-up: The mail privacy protection introduced in iOS 15 doesn't apply to the Mail app on the Apple Watch. The idea is quite neat and simple: to shield you from annoying marketing tricks such as tracking pixels, you can ask Apple to fetch your remote email content first, and then relay it to to you indirectly, thus using Apple as a proxy for images and links in your messages.
South Korea's privacy watchdog leaked personal information relating to participants in a case that sought to probe Facebook's leak of personal information. "Recently, while handling a Facebook collective dispute mediation case, an accident occurred in which the personal information in the dispute mediation was leaked to other applicants. We deeply apologize to the victims and the public for the fact that such a leak occurred," wrote Yoon Jong-in of the Personal Information Protection Commission on Monday, as machine-translated from Korean.
The Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs has disabled its online passport application tracker, citing a "Data privacy issue" and hinting that information could have leaked. The Philippines requires citizens to use the site, which launched only a couple of months ago, to apply for a passport - walk-in applications are allowed only under exceptional circumstances.
The survey revealed that as data becomes more complex, and data rules and regulations expand and evolve, new challenges such as data privacy, security, and quality have emerged that threaten to hinder data initiatives. Further, the survey revealed that sensitive data use is on the rise, and the tasks associated with managing sensitive data - data cataloging, data discovery, and access control - are the most challenging.
Australia's Attorney-General has submitted the first draft of a new Online Privacy Bill that contains striking reforms over existing privacy laws. The goal of the new bill is to modernize the legislative context that underpins online data protection and security and make new laws tight enough to enforce data handling practices by Internet entities.
Microsoft has made available Privacy Management for Microsoft 365, a new AI-based solution to help enterprises manage data privacy risks and build a privacy resilient workplace, as well as automate the response to subject rights requests at scale.Privacy Management is built-into the Microsoft 365 compliance center and is currently available as an add-on to organizations with Office 365 A1/E1/A3/E3/A5/E5 and Microsoft 365 A3/E3/A5/E5 subscriptions.
Brave Browser has replaced Google with its own no-tracking privacy-centric Brave Search as the default search engine for new users in five regions. Historically, Brave used Google as its default search engine when searching from the address bar.
Brave, the privacy-conscious web browser, has announced plans to introduce additional privacy protections against 'bounce tracking,' a newer form of tracking that is not currently blocked by the browser. The new system, which Brave's team calls "Debouncing", addresses the bounce tracking method, which disregards users' privacy preferences such as the 'Do Not Track' setting and the blocking of third-party cookies.