Data Privacy – Computer Security Articles

Credit to Author: Matthew Finnegan| Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 03:01:00 -0700

As regulators hand out hundreds of millions of dollars in fines for record-keeping failures related to the use of social messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, the finance industry faces a choice: properly enforce bans on the use of these apps or find ways to make them compliant.

“The explosion of new electronic communications channels — and the pervasive use of these — raises lots of red flags for the regulators,” said Anthony Diana, a partner at law firm Reed Smith’s Tech & Data Group. “The fear is that, if bad things are happening, they’re happening on these personal apps, not on the sanctioned communication channels that are surveilled.”

Anthony Diana, a partner at law firm Reed Smith’s Tech & Data Group.
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Have we lost the fight for data privacy? Lock and Code S03E16

August 1, 2022 admin crisis text line, Data Privacy, Facebook, google, lock and code, lock and code podcast, malwarebytes labs, podcast, roe v. wade

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 15:42:56 +0000

This week on Lock and Code, we talk with some of the team behind Malwarebytes Labs about whether we’ve lost the fight for data privacy.

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How to stay smart about Android app permissions

July 20, 2022 admin Android, Data Privacy, google, Mobile Apps, privacy, Security

Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0700

When it comes to Android and privacy, we’re accustomed to seeing things move in a certain direction.

It’s simple, really: With each new Android version, it usually gets easier to manage your privacy and understand how your information is being used. And we typically get more front-facing tools and under-the-hood improvements that allow us to handle that stuff intelligently. Obviously, right?

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Roe v. Wade: How the cops can use your data: Lock and Code S03E15

July 18, 2022 admin abortion, COPS, Data Privacy, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, law enforcement, legal request, lock and code, lock and code podcast, podcast, roe v. wade

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:17:26 +0000

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss how law enforcement can now use your data, ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

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Drop, crack, d'oh! My broken Android phone epiphany

July 13, 2022 admin Android, Data Privacy, privacy, Security, smartphones

Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0700

Man, I had one hell of a streak.

All these years — approximately 7,967 since I first started using and writing about Android — and somehow, rather miraculously, I’d never outright broken a phone.

Impressive, I know. But don’t let yourself get wrapped in awe yet, my fellow drop-dreading denizen: My streak of impeccable Android phone protection has officially come to a crashing halt.

Now, I didn’t technically drop my phone, mind you. And I didn’t technically break it myself, either. But it was definitely broken. And it happened on my watch.

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