Collaborate Disseminate
There’s been a cybersecurity goof in the wake of the US presidential elections, the US fingers the hackers responsible for disrupting the Winter Olympics in South Korea, and we take a long hard look at long hard legal mumbojumbo…
All this and much… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #204: Green buttons, Olympic attacks, and… an apology
We need to reassess how we define data security and where we place responsibility in protecting our data online. Over the past decade, consumers have enjoyed increasingly convenient, often free services in exchange for sharing their personal data. Whi… Continue reading Shared Responsibility in Data Security
You grant FaceApp a perpetual, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, modify and adapt your image. Sounds scary. Continue reading FaceApp privacy panic sets internet alight
Reading the terms and conditions of online consumer contracts requires, on average, more than 14 years of education. Continue reading Most Online ‘Terms of Service’ Are Incomprehensible to Adults, Study Finds
The EU justice commissioner said she’s out of patience. Also, she quit Facebook because it’s a “channel of dirt.” Continue reading Facebook faces sanctions if it drags its feet on data transparency
It’s in the terms of service, as one man found out after Apple removed three movies from his iTunes library. Continue reading You didn’t buy ‘your’ iTunes movies; Apple can delete them anytime
The German competition authority says Facebook’s terms are too convoluted for users to know what they’re getting into. Continue reading Facebook faces antitrust privacy probe over user data