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Microsoft Edge is one of the least private web browsers - even more so than other popular browsers like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox - according to academic researchers. According to the analysis, from Douglas Leith with the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College in Ireland, Edge sends privacy-invasive telemetry to Microsoft's back-end servers - including "Persistent" device identifiers and URLs typed into browsing pages.
Just a month after shipping version 73 of its Firefox browser, Mozilla has released version 74 with a range of privacy and security enhancements. Firefox 74 fixes the problem by using multicast DNS with ICE to create a random ID that cloaks a computer's IP address.
Match Group, the parent company of dating apps such as Tinder, on Tuesday publicly endorsed a US bill others in the tech industry fear will erode online privacy and speech in the name of fighting child abuse. US senators unveiled the bipartisan measure last week, aiming to curb images of child sex abuse by forcing tech platforms to cooperate with law enforcement on encryption or risk losing the legal immunity for what is posted on their websites.
You'd think HTTPS certificate checking would be a cinch for a computer security toolkit - but no so for Avast's AntiTrack privacy tool. The flaws affect both the Avast and AVG versions of AntiTrack, and punters are advised to update their software as a fix for both tools has been released.
To celebrate International Women's Day we invite you to this all-female splinter episode. We discuss privacy, biometrics, machine learning, social media, getting into cybersecurity and, of course, what it's like to be a woman in tech.
The Shared Responsibility Program is led by Becky Swain, Director of Standards Development at HITRUST, and supported by a Working Group comprised of representatives of leading cloud service providers, including Armor, AWS, Google, Microsoft Azure and Salesforce, as well as enterprise cloud customers, cloud professional services firms, and solution providers. "As PDHI collaborates with cloud service providers, we will leverage the HITRUST Shared Responsibility Matrix in understanding, documenting, and inheriting privacy and security control responsibility," explains Lee Penn, the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer for PDHI and Shared Responsibility Working Group Member.
The RSA 2020 theme was "The Human Element." Gabriel Gumbs of Spirion describes what this means in the era of privacy regulations. What "The Human Element" means in the context of privacy;.
According to its maker, Trifo, the Ironpie home surveillance robot vacuum isn't just your dust bunnies' worst nightmare. It's true, the artificial intelligence -enhanced internet of things robot vacuum can indeed be connected to the internet via Wi-Fi, can be controlled remotely for vacuuming, and can remotely stream out video showing its surroundings, given that - like other IoT gadgets - it comes equipped with a video camera.
Mozilla has said it plans to make a privacy technology called DNS-over-HTTPS the default setting for US users of Firefox within weeks. Although not a perfect shield against DNS snooping, DoH makes that a lot harder.
Over 40% of privacy compliance technology will rely on artificial intelligence by 2023, up from 5% today, according to Gartner. AI-powered privacy technology lessens compliance headaches.