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Permission Slip, an iPhone and Android app developed by Consumer Reports, helps users ask companies and data brokers to stop sharing their personal data and/or delete it. The Permission Slip app (Source: Consumer Reports) US consumer data privacy laws … Continue reading Sic Permission Slip on data brokers that use your data
Google is making it easier for users to remove personal contact information and personal, non-consensual explicit imagery from Google search results. “Of course, removing content from Google Search does not remove it from the web or other search … Continue reading Google makes removal of personal user info from Search easier
A vulnerability in the redis-py open-source library was at the root of last week’s ChatGPT data leak, OpenAI has confirmed. Not only were some ChatGPT users able to see what other users have been using the AI chatbot for, but limited personal and… Continue reading A bug revealed ChatGPT users’ chat history, personal and billing data
Logged failed logins into a company’s Okta domain could be used by threat actors to discover access credentials of valid accounts, Mitiga researchers have found. Those credentials can then be used log in to any of the organization’s platforms tha… Continue reading A common user mistake can lead to compromised Okta login credentials
Tracking pixels like the Meta and TikTok pixels are popular tools for online businesses to monitor their website visitors’ behaviors and preferences, but they do come with risks. While pixel technology has been around for years, privacy regulatio… Continue reading How to protect online privacy in the age of pixel trackers
Data privacy is an important topic in the digitalized economy. Recent policy changes have aimed to strengthen users’ control over their own data. Yet new research from Copenhagen Business School finds designers of cookie banners can affect users&… Continue reading User data privacy decisions can be easily manipulated
While each person has a unique personality and identity, the digital world has no patience for individuality. The web tries with its every fiber to store, analyze, and classify everything into neat boxes—us included. To compensate for the idiosyncratic… Continue reading How to glean user insight while respecting personal privacy
This is the third breach in the past few weeks for the world’s most popular streaming service. Continue reading Spotify Changes Passwords After Another Data Breach
Californians regularly opt-out of companies selling their personal information, with “Do-not-sell” being the most common CCPA right exercised, happening nearly 50% of the time over access and deletion requests, DataGrail’s Mid-Year CCPA Trends Re… Continue reading Do Californians use CCPA to protect their privacy?
The malicious Chrome extensions were secretly collecting users’ browser data and redirecting them to malware-laced websites. Continue reading 500 Malicious Chrome Extensions Impact Millions of Users