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Texas’s New App Store Age Verification Law Has Serious Privacy Issues
Age verification is coming to app stores in Texas, meaning that users could soon be required to provide some form of identification in order to download anything from the Google Play and Apple App stores, regardless of the app’s content. Earlier this week, Gov. Greg Abbott signed the Texas App Store Accountability Act, which is set to take effect at…
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Bluetooth 6.1 enhances privacy with randomized RPA timing
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced Bluetooth Core Specification 6.1, bringing important improvements to the popular wireless communication protocol. One new feature highlighted in the latest release is the increased device privacy via randomized Resolvable Private Addresses (RPA) updates. “Randomizing the timing of address changes makes it much more difficult for third parties to track or correlate device…
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How to lock down your privacy in WhatsApp
The end-to-end encryption (E2EE) available on the WhatsApp messaging app gets you off to a good start when it comes to privacy and security. It means no one else — hackers, law enforcement, or Meta staff — can see your chats. Your stuff stays just between you and the person or persons you’re chatting with. On top of that, the…
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Five Ways to Protect Your Privacy When Using Smart Home Tech
We may earn a commission from links on this page. We might not live in a Jetsons-like future with robot maids and flying cars, but we do have the technology to transform our standard houses into futuristic smart homes. There are some very compelling reasons to do that, including having more control over your environment, increased automation for repeated tasks,…
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WhatsApp’s new Advanced Chat Privacy protects sensitive messages
WhatsApp has introduced a new Advanced Chat Privacy feature to protect sensitive information exchanged in private chats and group conversations. The new privacy option can be enabled after tapping the chat name and is designed to prevent attempts to save media and export chat content. “Today we’re introducing our latest layer for privacy called ‘Advanced Chat Privacy.’ This new setting…
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Google revises Privacy Sandbox plans amid antitrust ruling – Computerworld
Typically users can be located by capturing and tracking the IP address. The feature will anonymize the IP address, and it will be part of the Incognito mode, which creates a temporary browsing window that deletes browsing data on exit, Google said in a blog post on its Privacy Sandbox website. “The feature will be initially available in certain regions,…
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Apple’s complicated plan to improve its AI while protecting privacy
Apple says it’s found a way to make its AI models better without training on its users’ data or even copying it from their iPhones and Macs. In a blog post first reported on by Bloomberg, the company outlined its plans to have devices compare a synthetic dataset to samples of recent emails or messages from users who have opted…
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WhatsApp Will Soon Block Media Saving and Chat Exports for Better Privacy
Don’t want anyone using the photos and videos you shared on a WhatsApp chat? Well, soon you might not have to worry about such things as the popular messaging app is working on a new Advanced chat privacy feature which will add another layer of security to your WhatsApp conversations, preventing others from saving media or exporting chats. As per…
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Data Privacy and Anonymity for Businesses with Oxylabs Proxy
Data privacy is essential for businesses to protect sensitive information, including customer data, trade secrets, and financial transactions. Without proper safeguards, cybercriminals, competitors, and even government surveillance can exploit vulnerabilities. This may lead to financial losses and reputational damage. Anonymity, on the other hand, ensures that your businesses can conduct market research, competitor analysis, and other strategic operations without exposing…
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Genetic data site openSNP to close and delete data over privacy concerns
The openSNP project, a platform for sharing genetic and phenotypic data, will shut down on April 30, 2025, and delete all user submissions over privacy concerns and the risk of misuse by authoritarian governments. The decision was announced earlier this week by co-founder Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, who expressed concerns about how personal genomics data is subject to abuse today and…
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