Starting in 13.1, advertisers and analytics firms can’t track us through browser cookies. Apple says this also kills login fingerprinting.
Tag Archives: online privacy
Google stops indexing WhatsApp chats; other search engines still at it
Private chat invites aren’t meant to be unfindable, Facebook says, though a snippet of code eventually shielded them from Google indexing.
Sensitive plastic surgery images exposed online
Researchers at VPN advisory company vpnMentor have found yet another online data exposure caused by a misconfigured cloud database.
Senator calls for dedicated US data protection agency
The US needs a data protection agency of its own, and Kirsten Gillibrand wants to be the one that makes it happen.
What do online file sharers want with 70,000 Tinder images?
A researcher has discovered thousands of Tinder users’ images publicly available for free online.
Peekaboo Moments baby-recording app has a bad database booboo
No need to wait until you’ve gurgled out of your mother’s womb to experience the joys of having your privacy breached.
Powerful GPG collision attack spells the end for SHA-1
New research has heightened an already urgent call to abandon SHA-1, a cryptographic algorithm still used in many popular online services.
Ad-blocking companies block ‘unblockable’ tracker
Ad-blockers have figured out a way to block the unblockable – a pernicious tracker technique that hides advertising networks in plain sight.
Wikipedia co-founder offers a Facebook/Twitter wannabe
Tired of being a tracked, ad-bedeviled product sold by social media companies? The cost to immediately join a network with no tracking/ads: $12.99/month.
Job seekers are scrubbing clean their social media accounts
Most people nowadays are quite aware that hiring managers put their social media postings under a microscope, a new survey finds.