WhatsApp Has Shared Your Data With Facebook for Years

A pop-up notification has alerted the messaging app's users to a practice that's been in place since 2016...

Facebook’s Mandatory Data-Sharing Rules for WhatsApp Spark Ire

WhatsApp is asking users to accept a new privacy policy that will share all of their data with Facebook beginning Feb. 8, a move that has users sounding an alarm once again about the privacy of their information in the hands of the social media giant. The Facebook-owned messaging service already...

WhatsApp wants you to accept its new terms or call it quits

By Deeba Ahmed WhatsApp Updates its Privacy Policy - You must agree to WhatsApp's new terms if you want to keep using it! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: WhatsApp wants you to accept its new terms or call it quits...

WhatsApp Will Disable Your Account If You Don't Agree Sharing Data With Facebook

"Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA," opens WhatsApp's privacy policy. "Since we started WhatsApp, we've aspired to build our Services with a set of strong privacy principles in mind." But come February 8, 2021, this opening statement will no longer find a place in the policy. The...

WhatsApp Will Disable Your Account If You Don't Agree Sharing Data With Facebook

"Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA," opens WhatsApp's privacy policy. "Since we started WhatsApp, we've aspired to build our Services with a set of strong privacy principles in mind." But come February 8, 2021, this opening statement will no longer find a place in the policy. The...

Dox, steal, reveal. Where does your personal data end up?

The technological shift that we have been experiencing for the last few decades is astounding, not least because of its social implications. Every year the online and offline spheres have become more and more connected and are now completely intertwined, leading to online actions having real...

Inrupt’s Solid Announcement

Earlier this year, I announced that I had joined Inrupt, the company commercializing Tim Berners-Lees Solid specification: The idea behind Solid is both simple and extraordinarily powerful. Your data lives in a pod that is controlled by you. Data generated by your things -- your computer, your...

The iOS Covid App Ecosystem Has Become a Privacy Minefield

An analysis of nearly 500 Covid-related apps worldwide shows major differences in how much data they expect you to give up...

“Privacy Nutrition Labels” in Apple’s App Store

Apple will start requiring standardized privacy labels for apps in its app store, starting in December: Apple allows data disclosure to be optional if all of the following conditions apply: if its not used for tracking, advertising or marketing; if its not shared with a data broker; if collection...

Apple to Deliver 'Privacy Labels' for Apps, Revealing Data-Sharing Details

After years of complaints about over-permissioned apps that collect, use and share private user information, Apple will be making developer privacy policies more transparent for consumers. Starting Dec. 8, iOS and macOS developers will be required to provide detailed information about how their...

Information leakage vulnerability in Credit China, a new generation public credit information service platform of Liaoning Like Information Engineering Co.

The new generation of public credit information service platform is a credit service platform that provides users with powerful functions and background management capabilities to meet the government's needs in data collection, information sharing, reward and punishment linkage, credit supervisio...

About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2, Security Update 2017-002 Sierra, and Security Update 2017-005 El Capitan - Apple Support

About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page. For more information about security, se...

Hong Kong's Security Law Puts Big Tech at a Crossroads

As China exerts more power over the city, companies like Facebook and Google have stopped handing over data—for now...

NETGEAR R6700v3 Password Reset / Remote Code Execution Exploit

This document describes a stack overflow vulnerability that was found in October, 2019 and presented in the Pwn2Own Mobile 2019 competition in November 2019. The vulnerability is present in the UPNP daemon /usr/sbin/upnpd, running on NETGEAR R6700v3 router with firmware versions V1.0.4.8210.0.57...

New Privacy Features Added to the Upcoming Apple iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur

Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures. No, we're not talking about 'coronavirus,' the current global pandemic because of which Apple—for the very first time in history—organized its Worldwide Developer Conference WWDC virtually. Here we're talking about a world in which we are all...

Open Banking Around the World

Open Banking, the practice of sharing financial data with competitors and third parties via open APIs, offers many benefits for consumers who not only have more control over their data, but who can now manage their finances much more efficiently. What started with the European Union Payment...

LinkedIn: LinkedIn users primary email + full name visibilty

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Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB4556813)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft KB4556813 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Parsec - Secure Cloud Framework

Homepage: https://parsec.cloud Documentation: https://parsec-cloud.readthedocs.org. Parsec is a free software AGPL v3 aiming at easily share your work and data in the cloud in total privacy thanks to cryptographic security. Key features: Works as a virtual drive on you computer. You can access an...

Zoom Caught in Cybersecurity Debate — Here's Everything You Need To Know

Over the past few weeks, the use of Zoom video conferencing software has exploded ever since it emerged the platform of choice to host everything from cabinet meetings to yoga classes amidst the ongoing coronavirus outbreak and work from home became the new normal. The app has skyrocketed to 200...