Mozilla’s enthusiasm for Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned? service has cranked up a level with the news it plans to integrate its breach checking into a new tool called Privacy Monitor.
Tag Archives: Privacy
School facial recognition system sparks privacy concerns
A New York school district is hoping to use technology to make its children safer. But not everyone is happy about it.
Facebook sends weekly app emails to wrong people
In another one of those privacy hiccups Facebook is making a habit of lately, the company has admitted accidentally copying some weekly app developer emails to the wrong recipients.
Terrible passwords outlawed in Microsoft’s new Azure tool
Azure AD Password Protection prevents users from setting a password from the company’s list of 500 most common and easily-guessed examples.
Brave browser starts feeding ads to willing guinea pigs
Hands up who wants to sign up to receive advertising as they browse the internet? Probably no-one, and yet that’s exactly what the new Brave browser is asking its users to do.
Holy Potatoes! Popular games remove “spyware” after gamers revolt
Whether what Red Shell does is an invasion of privacy or a harmless tool seems to depend on whether you’re a developer or a gamer.
Football app tracks illegal broadcasts using your microphone and GPS
La Liga is asking users for their consent to turn on the new, eavesdroppy-feeling function, but many users aren’t exactly thrilled.
6 million cards compromised in Dixons Carphone beach – act now!
Dixons Carphone has revealed what it’s calling an “attempt to compromise 5.9 million [payment] cards”.
US Government’s biometric database worries privacy advocates
It is something few Americans will have heard of, but the US Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) is catching the eye of privacy advocates – and not in a good way.
Busted by a Facebook ‘friend’ who’s an undercover cop? It’s legal!
Friending somebody means assuming the risk that they’re an undercover cop or informant.