One would think that having one of the most high-profile breaches in recent memory would make a company take security to heart, but Equifax is full of surprises. The latest is that its MyEquifax.com site, to which the company invites those affected by its poor security practices to freeze and unfreeze their credit, itself has extremely poor security.
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Custody dispute? A judge can order you to use this app to deal with your ex.
Welcome to Small Humans, an ongoing series at Mashable that looks at how to take care of – and deal with – the kids in your life. Because Dr. Spock is nice and all, but it’s 2019 and we have the entire internet to contend with.
Legally mandated app usage is officially now a thing.
Say hello to coParenter, an app designed to facilitate the often-fraught dealings of two non-married or separated individuals trying to jointly raise a kid. The app, available for download in the App Store and on Google Play, officially launched Jan. 17 with the promise to both save parents money and keep them out of court. Read more…
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View More Custody dispute? A judge can order you to use this app to deal with your ex.Cookie walls don’t comply with GDPR, says Dutch DPA
Cookie walls that demand a website visitor agrees to their Internet browsing being tracked for ad-targeting as the ‘price’ of entry to the site are not compliant with European data protection law, the Dutch data protection agency clarified yesterday. The DPA said it has received dozens of complaints from Internet users who had had their […]
View More Cookie walls don’t comply with GDPR, says Dutch DPAWhy we should all be skeptical of Mark Zuckerberg’s new commitment to privacy
Mark Zuckerberg just revealed plans to bring about what could be one of the most significant changes in Facebook’s history.
In an over 3,000 word post on his Facebook page, the CEO laid out his vision for Facebook’s future: one that would trans…
Mark Zuckerberg discovers privacy
With the swelling confidence of a colonial power happening upon a long-settled distant land, today Mark Zuckerberg discovered the concept of privacy. In a ballooning 3,225 words — a roughly average word count for the terminally verbose Facebook founder — Zuckerberg informed his miserably loyal 2.3 billion plus subjects that his company has happened upon […]
View More Mark Zuckerberg discovers privacyTaxing your privacy
Joe Apprendi Contributor Joe Apprendi is a general partner at Revel Partners. More posts by this contributor The new era in mobile Big data’s humble beginnings Data collection through mobile tracking is big business and the potential for companies helping governments monetize this data is huge. For consumers, protecting yourself against the who, what and […]
View More Taxing your privacyGoogle employees can’t just walk away from ethical tradeoffs like Dragonfly
Let me blunt up front: I think Google should launch a censored search engine in China (albeit with careful organizational boundaries). And I think that Google employees who would undermine such a project need to step down and walk out the front door to opportunities more in line with their purported values. I am reacting […]
View More Google employees can’t just walk away from ethical tradeoffs like DragonflyCan predictive analytics be made safe for humans?
Massive-scale predictive analytics is a relatively new phenomenon, one that challenges both decades of law as well as consumer thinking about privacy. As a technology, it may well save thousands of lives in applications like predictive medicine, but if it isn’t used carefully, it may prevent thousands from getting loans, for instance, if an underwriting […]
View More Can predictive analytics be made safe for humans?Daily Crunch: Facebook faces new privacy concerns
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting Users are complaining that the phone number Facebook […]
View More Daily Crunch: Facebook faces new privacy concernsFlawed visitor check-in systems let anyone steal guest logs and sneak into buildings
Security researchers at IBM have found, reported and disclosed 19 vulnerabilities in five popular visitor management systems, which they say can be used to steal data on visitors — or even sneak into sensitive and off-limit areas of office buildings. You’ve probably seen one of these visitor check-in systems before: they’re often found in lobbies […]
View More Flawed visitor check-in systems let anyone steal guest logs and sneak into buildingsFacebook won’t let you opt-out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting
Users are complaining that the phone number Facebook hassled them to use to secure their account with two-factor authentication has also been associated with their user profile — which anyone can use to “look up” your profile. Worse, Facebook doesn’t give you an option to opt-out. Last year, Facebook was forced to admit that after […]
View More Facebook won’t let you opt-out of its phone number ‘look up’ settingPrivacy complaints received by tech giants’ favorite EU watchdog up more than 2x since GDPR
A report by the lead data watchdog for a large number of tech giants operating in Europe shows a significant increase in privacy complaints and data breach notifications since the region’s updated privacy framework came into force last May. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC)’s annual report, published today, covers the period May 25, aka […]
View More Privacy complaints received by tech giants’ favorite EU watchdog up more than 2x since GDPR