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How to Keep Your Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant Voice Recordings Private
Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant now all give you ways to opt out of human transcription of your voice snippets. Do it...
bumblebee unconditionally disabled SSL/TLS certificate validation
bumblebee unconditionally disabled SSL/TLS certificate validation for connections to the HP ALM service. bumblebee no longer does that. Instead, it now allows users to opt out of certificate validation...
Facebook allows users to opt out of facial recognition in photos
By Sudais Facebook is introducing privacy features with its new facial recognition program and stop using the one to tag users in photos. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook allows users to opt out of facial recognition in photos...
Facebook Drops Default Facial Recognition Tag Suggestions
Facebook is giving users more control over a facial recognition feature used by the company to help identify, or Tag, people on its platform. Starting Tuesday, the company said it would allow its users to opt-out of the Tag Suggestions feature, while at the same time the company is attempting to...
Apple Changes the Way It Listens to Your Siri Recordings Following Privacy Concerns
Apple today announced some major changes to its controversial 'Siri audio grading program' following criticism for employing humans to listen to audio recordings of users collected via its voice-controlled Siri personal assistant without their knowledge or consent. The move came a month after The...
Apple Updates Privacy Policies After Siri Audio Recording Backlash
Apple is taking steps to improve the privacy of audio collected by its Siri voice assistant, on the heels of backlash around a program that let contractors listen into Siri conversations. On Wednesday, the phone giant apologized for violating users’ privacy through the program, which was...
Apple Suspends Siri Program After Privacy Backlash
Apple is suspending a program that lets contractors listen in on Siri voice recordings after facing a rain of backlash regarding the privacy implications of the program. The suspension comes after a report in The Guardian last week outlining how contractors regularly listen to intimate voice...
What does ‘consent to tracking’ really mean?
Thanks to Jerome Boursier for contributions. Post GDPR, many social media platforms will ask end users to consent to some form of tracking as a condition of using the service. It's easy to make assumptions as to what that means, especially when the actual terms of service or data policy for the...
Equifax Has Chosen Experian. Wait, What?
A year after offering free credit monitoring to all Americans on account of its massive data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 148 million people, Equifax now says it has chosen to extend the offer by turning to a credit monitoring service offered by a top competitor --...
Google Sued Over Misleading Users About Location Tracking Feature
Google was in the news last week for a misleading claim that "with Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored," which is not true. Now, the search engine giant is once again in the news after a San Diego man has filed the first lawsuit against Google over this issue. Last week,...
Google Tracks its Users Even if They Opt-Out of Tracking
Google is tracking you, even if you turn off tracking: Google says that will prevent the company from remembering where you've been. Google's support page on the subject states: "You can turn off Location History at any time. With Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored." Tha...
CCleaner Adds Data Collection Feature With No Way to Opt-Out
Like many others, do you also believe that the popular system-cleaning tool CCleaner was performing well before Avast acquired the software from Piriform last year? If yes, then pop-up advertisements in the previous CCleaner software version was not the last thing you have to deal with. Avast has...
Microsoft Windows 10: KMS Client Online AVS Validation
This test checks the setting for policy SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.109480";...
Microsoft Windows: Turn off Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program
This policy setting turns off the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program. The Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program collects information about your hardware configuration and how you use our software and services to identify trends and usage patterns. Microsoft will not collect...
New Data Privacy Regulations
When Marc Zuckerberg testified before both the House and the Senate last month, it became immediately obvious that few US lawmakers had any appetite to regulate the pervasive surveillance taking place on the Internet. Right now, the only way we can force these companies to take our privacy more...
Ansible Plugin disabled host key verification by default
Ansible Plugin disabled host key verification by default, having it only as an opt-in option. Ansible Plugin 1.0 now enables host key verification by default, adding options allowing users to opt out. Existing configurations that previously did not opt into host key verification will have host ke...
'Web Of Trust' Browser Add-On Caught Selling Users' Data — Uninstall It Now
Browser extensions have become a standard part of the most popular browsers and essential part of our lives for surfing the Internet. But not all extensions can be trusted. One such innocent looking browser add-on has been caught collecting browsing history of millions of users and selling them t...
WhatsApp to Share Your Data with Facebook — You have 30 Days to Stop It
Nothing comes for Free, as "Free" is just a relative term used by companies to develop a strong user base and then use it for their own benefits. The same has been done by the secure messaging app WhatsApp, which has now made it crystal clear that the popular messaging service will begin sharing...
Facebook Ads now Tracks you, Even if you don't have an Account
There's nowhere to hide across the web, especially from the marketing and advertising companies. If you are paranoid about your privacy, you may get upset to know that Facebook will now track and deliver targeted Ads on other apps and websites for everyone, even if you do not have Facebook...
