Chrome starts the countdown to the end of tracking cookies

Google has announced that it will start rolling its Chrome web browsers new Tracking Protection feature from January of 2024. Tracking Protection is part of Google’s Privacy Sandbox initiative to phase out third-party cookies. The Tracking Protection feature aims to disable third-party cookies...

Privacy Badger - A Browser Extension That Automatically Learns To Block Invisible Trackers

Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically learns to block invisible trackers. Instead of keeping lists of what to block, Privacy Badger learns by watching which domains appear to be tracking you as you browse the Web. Privacy Badger sends the Do Not Track signal with your browsing...

Execs Could Face Jail Time For Privacy Violations

A new data privacy bill threatens large tech firms, like Facebook, with tough penalties – including monetary fines and up to 20 years of jail time for executives – if they violate user privacy policies. The “Mind Your Own Business Act,” proposed by Sen. Ron Wyden D-Ore. on Thursday, gives the...

A Second Life for the 'Do Not Track' Setting—With Teeth

In recent years, the setting has been criticized as being essentially meaningless. But it might have a crucial role to play in enforcing privacy regulations...

Will pay-for-privacy be the new normal?

Privacy is a human right, and online privacy should be no exception. Yet, as the US considers new laws to protect individuals’ online data, at least two proposals—one statewide law that can still be amended and one federal draft bill that has yet to be introduced—include an unwelcome bargain:...

A week in security (February 4 – 8)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took a closer look at the technical and reputational challenges for Facebook as it tries to integrate secure messaging across Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. We explored Google’s latest attempts to change how the public sees—literally—web browser URLs, gave...

Open Source Privacy Enhancing iOS Web Browser: Onion Browser

Open Source Privacy Enhancing iOS Web Browser Onion Browser is a free web browser for iPhone and iPad that encrypts and tunnels web traffic through the Tor network , with extra features to help you browse the internet privately. Features & Benefits Internet access is tunneled through the Tor...

Mozilla 42 Brings Private Browsing with Tracking Protection Live

Mozilla has pushed a feature in Firefox live that allows users to block certain page elements while browsing privately. The feature, Private Browsing with Tracking Protection, previously available to beta users, blocks third party page elements, such as ads, social network buttons, analytics, and...

Privacy Badger 1.0 Released With Support For EFF Do Not Track Policy

The EFF has released the 1.0 version of Privacy Badger, its browser extension that blocks the hidden trackers used on many sites to follow users around the Web. The extension has been out in beta form for several months and has drawn praise from privacy advocates for its ability to block trackers...

EFF, AdBlock and Others Launch New Do Not Track Standard

After years of discussions, disagreements, and digressions, the Do Not Track header is supported by all of the major browsers. But because there’s no real requirement for sites or advertisers to respect it, DNT is not as effective as it could be. Now, the EFF, Disconnect, and several other...

Privacy Badger Extension Blocks Tracking Through Social Icons

Online tracking has been a thorny problem for years, and as Web security companies, browser vendors and users have become more aware of the problem and smarter about how to defend themselves, ad companies and trackers have responded in kind. The advent of social networks has made it far easier fo...

Yahoo Drops Support for Do Not Track

Yahoo, one of the first large Web companies to recognize the Do Not Track header from browsers on its properties, has now backtracked and said it will no longer support DNT. Officials said the lack of an industry standard for DNT that’s effective led to the decision. DNT is an option in the major...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss Do Not Track, We Are the Cavalry and more

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the major security stories of the last two weeks, including the BGP route hijacking, why Do Not Track doesn’t work and the We Are the Cavalry movement. Download: digitalunderground135.mp3...

Pinterest Announces Support for DNT Header

Pinterest is the latest major Internet service to support Do Not Track. The social site, which allows its users to organize items of interest, made the announcement on Friday in a note that explained how it was going to suggest personalized pins based on websites the user has visited and placed a...

Mozilla Delays Third-Party Cookie Patch in Firefox

Mozilla has tapped the brakes on its plans to block third-party cookies by default in the Firefox browser. Test versions of Firefox 22, scheduled for a June release, were supposed to include a patch that blocked third-party cookie drops by default. However, Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich said yesterday...

Firefox 21 Launches with 3 critical fixes and new Social Integrations

Mozilla has launched Firefox 21 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, adding a number of improvements, namely to the browser's Social API. "Today, we are adding multiple new social providers Cliqz, Mixi and msnNOW to Firefox," wrote Mozilla in a blog post today. The browser first added Facebook integratio...

Firefox 21 Update Patches 8 Vulnerabilities, 3 Critical

Mozilla fixed eight vulnerabilities, three critical, in the 21st build of its flagship Firefox browser yesterday. One of the fixes remedies an Address Sanitizer memory corruption flaw MFSA 2013-48 that could’ve allowed remote code execution. The other two critical flaws could’ve also led to...

Firefox 21 Launches with 3 critical fixes and new Social Integrations

Mozilla has launched Firefox 21 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, adding a number of improvements, namely to the browser's Social API. "Today, we are adding multiple new social providers Cliqz, Mixi and msnNOW to Firefox," wrote Mozilla in a blog post today. The browser first added Facebook integratio...

How To: Chrome Browser Privacy Settings

youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY9hbsfEbaw The Web browser is the primary portal through which the vast majority of connected users access and interact with the Internet. Each browser has its own security and privacy settings and those settings have an enormous impact on the nature of the...

CPOs Challenged with Meeting Privacy Expectations and Maintaining Full User Experience

SAN FRANCISCO – People who interact with online services have mounting privacy expectations that run in parallel with their need for a full experience with the functionality central to those services. But can users have their privacy cake and eat it too? That’s the challenging question facing...