Microsoft Changes The Terms On It’s Bing AI Services
If you make use of Microsoft's Bing AI Services you should be aware that the terms of use have changed, and not necessarily for the better. There are two of the terms…
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Tag: Privacy
Yes, Your Amazon Echo Why You Are Getting Those Ads
A large team of researches from the University of Washington, University of California-Davis, University of California-Irvine, and Northeastern University have published a paper titled, "Your Echos are heard: Tracking, profiling, and ad-targeting…
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Firefox Would Download A Cookie Jar, Lots Of Them Even!
Your Firefox won't look very different today but there has been a change behind the scenes which may please you. In order to mitigate the privacy concerns which the continual evolution of…
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Does Amazon’s Reply Ring True For You?
The EFF and other privacy minded individuals and organizations have had a few problems with Amazon's Ring products and it looks like that is not going to be resolved any time soon. …
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Mozilla Publishes Website Called Track THIS
Track THIS is a website that will give advertisers an interesting (and probably wrong) view of who you are. Once you select a persona, the website will launch a...
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The browser giveth and the browser taketh away
The upcoming version of Firefox will include anti-fingerprinting technology to increase your privacy when browsing the web. Fingerprinting is a bit different from dumping a cookie on your system, instead advertisers can…
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Google don’t Play that; apps will now need to notify users about data harvesting
Google has responded to the news stories posted last week at various news sites about the secretive data collection many apps on Google Play indulge in. Developers of Android apps...
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Opera Adds Built In VPN and Ad Blocking To Web Browser
It has been some time since I last looked at Opera, and while I used to be a big fan of the alternative web browser my interest waned around the time that…
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Now that the Oculus Rift has arrived you can see how shady the T&C’s are
As expected, Facebook has added some questionable features to the Oculus Rift and if any of it surprises you then you haven't been paying attention. The Register went through it...
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Looks like we’ve got a rat, the browser formerly known as IE is spilling the beans
Microsoft is revisiting an old issue with private browsing which we have seen too many times unfortunately. In 2010 Firefox's private browsing broke and left site visits on your computer and in…
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Valve Comments on Christmas Security Issues
On Christmas Day, Valve had a few hours of problems. Their servers were being overloaded by malicious traffic. The best analogy that I could provide would...
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Microsoft Updates Privacy Statement (via Ed Bott of ZDNet)
UPDATE (Nov 19th, 12pm EST): Ed Bott emailed me to clarify a few points. First, PINs for BitLocker are not required and will not be…
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AT&T is late to the gigabit game, but you can pay them for “privacy”
Kansas City got Google Fiber back in 2012 and not surprisingly a lot of users jumped to this ~$70 service from their current ISPs the moment they could. Two of the incumbent…
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Flustered over Win10’s surveillance habits? Have you met Predix?
GM's Predix asset management platform has been used for a while now, after they came to the realization that they were in the top 20 of the largest software developers...
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Mozilla Labs: Give Advertisers Only… Exactly What They Want
Mozilla Labs is researching a new approach to the problem of privacy and targeted advertising: allow the user to provide the data that honest advertisers intend to acquire via tracking...
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EFF Report Outlines Which Companies Stand Up For Users’ Data Privacy Rights
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released its annual Who Has Your Back report, which highlights Internet companies that (do or do not) defend user’s online privacy rights. The EFF looks...
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Firefox 22 Will Block Third Party Cookies By Default
Mozilla’s Firefox web browser continues to add new features. A recent patch submitted by Jonathan Mayer proposes an interesting change to the way the browser handles third party cookies. The...
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