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...

'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...

youronlinechoices.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/optoutinterfacev2?lang=at'alert/XSSPOSED/...

Windows 10 Upgrade Become More Creepy, No Option to Opt-Out

If you are running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 and have no plans to switch to Windows 10, then Microsoft could force you to install Windows 10, making it harder for you to cancel or opt-out of upgrading. Note: Above image has been photoshopped, but the original screenshot taken by Windows users is...

Verizon Allows Opt Out of UIDH Mobile Supercookie

Verizon Wireless has made a change that now allows customers to opt out of the ad-targeting program that relies on the so-called supercookie identifier that was inserted into Web requests users send. The use of the identifier, known as a UIDH, drew the ire of privacy advocates and users when it w...

Twitter will now Track EVERY App You have Installed on Your Smartphone

Like Facebook and Google, Twitter will soon be collecting your smartphone data in order to provide a "more personal Twitter experience" by serving targeted advertisements. The popular microblogging service Twitter said Wednesday that it will start collecting information about the other applicatio...

Verizon to Pay Largest Ever Consumer Privacy Settlement

Verizon will pay the Federal Communications Commission $7.4 million as part of a settlement over the company’s failure to adequately inform and obtain consent from customers before using their personal information to develop thousands of tailored marketing campaigns. Officials say this fine...

Facebook To Use Your Web Browsing History for Targeted Ads, Here's How To Opt-Out Now

Surfing the Internet?? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is watching your every move on Web, and this time even more closure. It’s not surprising that Facebook collects data of its 1.3 billion users, just like everyone else, which the company has said it only holds onto your data for security and...

Facebook Set to Let Users Edit Own Advertising Info

Facebook announced today it will soon be rolling out a new feature to give users more control when it comes to the types of advertisements they see on the site. If users are tired of getting barraged with ads for shoes, video games or discount plane tickets, they’ll not only be able to stop the...

With a Warning FTC Approves WhatsApp, Facebook Union

Facebook’s acquisition of messaging application WhatsApp was approved by the Federal Trade Commission late last week, but not without a stern notice from the agency, which warned that it would be keeping a watchful eye on the two companies going forward. In a letter addressed to officials at...

Facebook Partners with Data Brokers for Better Ads

In late February, Facebook forged a partnership with four of its most prolific data brokers in order to more accurately target users with relevant advertisements. Facebook announced on Feb. 27 that it would be expanding its custom audiences tool, an earlier initiative designed to target users wit...

Privacy Protests Cause Instagram to Rethink Changes

Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom responded to a firestorm of protests from users of the photo-sharing social network’s proposed terms of service changes that could impact the privacy of its users. Systrom blamed confusing legal jargon for the misunderstanding and said Instagram would not be...

Instagram Privacy Changes Start Clock Ticking for Users Who Want to Opt-Out

Instagram users have some soul searching to do between now and Jan. 16 when new terms of service kick in that give the photo-sharing social network the right to sell personal photos without the user’s permission or compensating them. The most startling change reads: “To help us deliver interestin...

Google to Allow Users to Opt Out of WiFi Location Mapping System

Google, which has faced a pile of criticism over its privacy policies and practices, especially as they relate to wireless and mobile devices, says it is changing the way that it maps people’s wireless access points in its efforts to provide accurate location information. The company said it is n...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.canoncamerashop.com

Security researcher SeeMe, has submitted on 02/11/2011 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.canoncamerashop.com, which at the time of submission ranked 0 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 13/12/2011. It is...