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Password manager 1Password and virtual card platform Privacy.com announced an API integration that lets users create virtual cards in their browser quickly and safely when they need to make a payment. Starting today, users can create, use and save Privacy Cards directly within their 1Password extension whenever they're needed.
Apple has released iOS 14, with a bucketload of new and improved functional features and a handful of privacy and security ones. New privacy and security features in iOS 14 The new iOS will tell you when an app is using your camera or microphone.
The ongoing debate surrounding privacy protection in the global data economy reached a fever pitch with July's "Schrems II" ruling at the European Court of Justice, which struck down the Privacy Shield - a legal mechanism enabling companies to transfer personal data from the EU to the US for processing - potentially disrupting the business of thousands of companies. The plaintiff, Austrian privacy advocate Max Schrems, claimed that US privacy legislation was insufficiently robust to prevent national security and intelligence authorities from acquiring - and misusing - Europeans' personal data.
The U.S. will ban the downloads of the Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat on Sunday, with a total ban on the use of the latter, citing national security and data privacy concerns. Some security experts have raised concerns that ByteDance Ltd., the Chinese company that owns TikTok, would maintain access to information on the 100 million TikTok users in the United States, creating a security risk.
Roid security is always a hot topic and almost always for the wrong reason, including Google's failure to prevent malicious apps from being distributed through the Play Store, over-claim of permissions by apps, and privacy leakages. This feature is not new in Android but was earlier only available to use while downloading a new app from the Google Play Store.
A Case Western Reserve University computer and data sciences researcher is working to shore up privacy protections for people whose genomic information is stored in a vast global collection of vital, personal data. Erman Ayday pursued novel methods for identifying and analyzing privacy vulnerabilities in the genomic data sharing network known commonly as "The Beacons."
Apple has patched nearly a dozen vulnerabilities and it has introduced new privacy features with the release of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 this week. The issues could result in applications causing a system crash or writing kernel memory, identifying other installed applications, leaking user information, or accessing restricted files; may allow attackers to download malicious content, execute arbitrary code, or view notification contents from the lockscreen; may lead to arbitrary code execution or a cross-site scripting attack; may allow a user to read kernel memory; or could result in the screen lock not engaging after the specified time period.
Apple has released Safari 14, which features many functional improvements, a Privacy Report that shows all the trackers the browser has neutralized, and and does not support Adobe Flash anymore. Safari 14 sports a redesign of the tab bar, which now displays site favicons by default and previews of the contents of some pages, and a customizable start page.
Popular mobile messengers expose personal data via discovery services that allow users to find contacts based on phone numbers from their address book, according to researchers. When installing a mobile messenger like WhatsApp, new users can instantly start texting existing contacts based on the phone numbers stored on their device.
Californians regularly opt-out of companies selling their personal information, with "Do-not-sell" being the most common CCPA right exercised, happening nearly 50% of the time over access and deletion requests, DataGrail's Mid-Year CCPA Trends Report shows. Do-not-sell requests are almost 50% of all DSRs. When CCPA went into effect in January 2020, DataGrail saw people exercise their rights immediately, with a surge of data subject requests going across its platform in January 2020.