Tag: tracking

October 2, 2017

How many times a day do you check email? We know that web trackers snoop and stalk us when we surf, but the same could be said of email tracking. In fact, it’s much more intense than you likely realized […]

June 23, 2017

Imagine you’re running a nonprofit site dedicated to keeping seniors safe online. You write articles about conmen bilking people out of their life savings, romance scams, identity theft and the like. One day, somebody recommends a chat app called Tawk […]

June 9, 2017

Suddenly, web browsers have become interesting again for the growing minority of users who worry about privacy. Apple used its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this week to announce a couple of new features for Safari running on macOS High Sierra, […]

May 3, 2017

Researchers have found 234 Android applications that are constantly listening for ultrasonic beacons in the background, allowing companies to track users’ current location or their habits – without the users’ knowledge. They also found four stores in two European cities […]

April 20, 2017

Wireless headphones company Bose is being sued for allegedly tracking the music, podcasts, and other audio users listen to, putting that information to use by selling it. The accusations were included in a complaint that was recently filed in a […]

March 14, 2017

Under pressure from civil liberties advocates, Facebook has updated its policies to explicitly prohibit the use of company data for surveillance purposes. Facebook announced the move on Monday after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) published records showing that Facebook […]

January 4, 2017

When it comes to privacy, folks have learned to watch Uber like a hawk. This turns out to be useful even when Uber (apparently) turns out to be innocent. Case in point: the way Uber’s iOS app (3.222.4 and higher) […]

December 15, 2016

Mountain View appears to be fully committed to web user security. In 2016, Google has already launched various initiatives to penalize poor website security practices (or, on the other hand, to reward users who follow their recommendations). Now they’ve proposed to clearly mark […]

December 2, 2016

Last year, Uber gave us a heads-up about its new privacy policy and how it had given itself permission to routinely track our locations even after we’ve left the car, following us as we sally forth into businesses, cross the […]

November 4, 2016

Monitoring network activity is key to securing any production environment. Keeping tabs on the activities of the users, applications and the devices enables operators to ensure expected and normal operations. Monitoring also allows problems to be detected and corrected before […]

October 10, 2016

Software that Yahoo installed at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI may have been more malicious than originally reported, Motherboard reports. A New York Times story asserted that Yahoo developed software to search all emails for signatures […]

October 5, 2016

For the most part, we all love social networks — some more than others, of course. Really, how could you not? Social media networks make it unbelievably easy to connect with friends, family, coworkers, and strangers around the world, all […]

September 30, 2016

Privacy International, Liberty and the American Civil Liberties Union are among 10 human rights groups backing a landmark challenge to mass surveillance in the European Court of Human Rights. Ten human rights organizations from the UK, the US, Canada, Ireland […]

September 20, 2016

Less than 48 hours after a bomb exploded in a dumpster on a streetcorner in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York—and another device a few blocks away failed to explode—police have tracked the attack to New Jersey resident Ahmad Khan […]

September 14, 2016

Most Americans have long ago given up fighting the notion that their behavior is tracked by advertisers as they move around the web. The subject of our children’s privacy, on the other hand, remains a political and cultural firestorm. Now […]

August 11, 2016

If you want to detect malware or other potential risks across your enterprise, one time-honored method is to look at your endpoint behavior. A recent Simility blog post detailed how it is tracking online fraud. With the help of a […]

July 27, 2016

Verizon’s planned US$4.8 billion acquisition of Yahoo is likely to create an international consumer tracking powerhouse, and that’s raising serious privacy concerns. Combined with other recent acquisitions, the Yahoo deal will allow Verizon to track consumers not only on the […]

July 13, 2016

Managing a personal Facebook account takes a few efforts in order to efficiently protect the individual privacy, since the default settings allow any stranger to find out quite a few details on the account owner: date of birth, location, interests, […]

July 4, 2016

The Democratic National Committee carves out a stance against data localization requirements in the party’s draft platform, released Friday. The draft calls for greater “access to global markets for American intellectual property and other digital trade by opposing quotas, discriminatory […]

July 4, 2016

A majority of organizations report that they lack visibility into their cloud infrastructure, file shares, user activity and mobile devices, greatly impacting data security and system uptime, according to Netwrix. The survey of 830 respondents, conducted by Netwrix in April […]