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Italy Antitrust Agency Fines Apple $116 Million Over Privacy Feature; Apple Announces Appeal

Italy Antitrust Agency Fines Apple $116 Million Over Privacy Feature; Apple Announces Appeal 2025-12-23 at 13:16 By Associated Press Italy’s antitrust authority fined Apple $116 million after determining that operating one of its privacy features restricted App Store competition. The post Italy Antitrust Agency Fines Apple $116 Million Over Privacy Feature; Apple Announces Appeal appeared […]

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Rising Tides: When Cybersecurity Becomes Personal – Inside the Work of an OSINT Investigator

Rising Tides: When Cybersecurity Becomes Personal – Inside the Work of an OSINT Investigator 2025-12-22 at 17:52 By Jennifer Leggio Shannon Miller shares her approach to creating domestic safety and a call to the cyber community to help reduce harm. The post Rising Tides: When Cybersecurity Becomes Personal – Inside the Work of an OSINT

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Browser agents don’t always respect your privacy choices

Browser agents don’t always respect your privacy choices 2025-12-22 at 08:49 By Sinisa Markovic Browser agents promise to handle online tasks without constant user input. They can shop, book reservations, and manage accounts by driving a web browser through an AI model. A new academic study warns that this convenience comes with privacy risks that

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Privacy risks sit inside the ads that fill your social media feed

Privacy risks sit inside the ads that fill your social media feed 2025-12-18 at 08:34 By Sinisa Markovic Regulatory limits on explicit targeting have not stopped algorithmic profiling on the web. Ad optimization systems still adapt which ads appear based on users’ private attributes. At the same time, multimodal LLMs have lowered the barrier for

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What 35 years of privacy law say about the state of data protection

What 35 years of privacy law say about the state of data protection 2025-12-12 at 09:52 By Anamarija Pogorelec Privacy laws have expanded around the world, and security leaders now work within a crowded field of requirements. New research shows that these laws provide stronger rights and duties, but the protections do not always translate

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LLM privacy policies keep getting longer, denser, and nearly impossible to decode

LLM privacy policies keep getting longer, denser, and nearly impossible to decode 2025-12-12 at 08:30 By Sinisa Markovic People expect privacy policies to explain what happens to their data. What users get instead is a growing wall of text that feels harder to read each year. In a new study, researchers reviewed privacy policies for

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Product showcase: Tuta – secure, encrypted, private email

Product showcase: Tuta – secure, encrypted, private email 2025-12-11 at 08:13 By Help Net Security Tuta, formerly known as Tutanota, is built for anyone who wants email that stays private. Instead of treating encryption like a bonus feature, the service encrypts almost everything by default. That means your messages are locked down from the moment

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AI vs. you: Who’s better at permission decisions?

AI vs. you: Who’s better at permission decisions? 2025-12-04 at 08:04 By Sinisa Markovic A single tap on a permission prompt can decide how far an app reaches into a user’s personal data. Most of these calls happen during installation. The number of prompts keeps climbing, and that growing pressure often pushes people into rushed

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Portmaster: Open-source application firewall

Portmaster: Open-source application firewall 2025-12-03 at 08:11 By Anamarija Pogorelec Portmaster is a free and open source application firewall built to monitor and control network activity on Windows and Linux. The project is developed in the EU and is designed to give users stronger privacy without asking them to manage every rule by hand. A

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Facial Recognition’s Trust Problem

Facial Recognition’s Trust Problem 2025-12-01 at 21:01 By Kevin Townsend Two technologies — one for public safety, one for controlled entry — show why trust in facial recognition must be earned, not assumed. The post Facial Recognition’s Trust Problem appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Social data puts user passwords at risk in unexpected ways

Social data puts user passwords at risk in unexpected ways 2025-11-28 at 09:08 By Anamarija Pogorelec Many CISOs already assume that social media creates new openings for password guessing, but new research helps show what that risk looks like in practice. The findings reveal how much information can be reconstructed from public profiles and how

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New observational auditing framework takes aim at machine learning privacy leaks

New observational auditing framework takes aim at machine learning privacy leaks 2025-11-28 at 08:34 By Sinisa Markovic Machine learning (ML) privacy concerns continue to surface, as audits show that models can reveal parts of the labels (the user’s choice, expressed preference, or the result of an action) used during training. A new research paper explores

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Tor Project is rolling out Counter Galois Onion encryption

Tor Project is rolling out Counter Galois Onion encryption 2025-11-25 at 17:04 By Sinisa Markovic People who rely on Tor expect their traffic to move through the network without giving away who they are. That trust depends on the strength of the encryption that protects each hop. Tor developers are preparing a major upgrade called

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Aircraft cabin IoT leaves vendor and passenger data exposed

Aircraft cabin IoT leaves vendor and passenger data exposed 2025-11-25 at 08:34 By Sinisa Markovic The expansion of IoT devices in shared, multi-vendor environments, such as aircraft cabins, has created tension between the benefits of data collaboration and the risks to passenger privacy, vendor intellectual property, and regulatory compliance. A new study finds that even

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The privacy tension driving the medical data shift nobody wants to talk about

The privacy tension driving the medical data shift nobody wants to talk about 2025-11-24 at 08:02 By Anamarija Pogorelec Most people assume their medical data sits in quiet storage, protected by familiar rules. That belief gives a sense of safety, but new research argues that the world around healthcare data has changed faster than the

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Research shows identity document checks are missing key signals

Research shows identity document checks are missing key signals 2025-11-21 at 10:06 By Anamarija Pogorelec Most CISOs spend their time thinking about account takeover and phishing, but identity document fraud is becoming a tougher challenge. A new systematic review shows how attackers are pushing past old defenses and how detection models are struggling to keep

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Convenience culture is breaking personal security

Convenience culture is breaking personal security 2025-11-21 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec AI is changing how scams are built, shared, and trusted. A new global survey from Bitdefender shows how far the problem has spread. AI is helping scams evolve faster than people can respond Over seven in ten consumers encountered some form of scam

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Google Play Store’s privacy practices still confuse Android users

Google Play Store’s privacy practices still confuse Android users 2025-11-20 at 08:05 By Sinisa Markovic Privacy rules like GDPR and CCPA are meant to help app stores be clearer about how apps use your data. But in the Google Play Store, those privacy sections often leave people scratching their heads. A new study looks at

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Product showcase: Proton Pass, a password manager with identity protection

Product showcase: Proton Pass, a password manager with identity protection 2025-11-19 at 07:02 By Help Net Security Managing passwords can be a real headache, and it’s still common to fall back on reusing them or storing them in a browser without much protection. Proton Pass, built by the Swiss company Proton AG (the team behind

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What security pros should know about insurance coverage for AI chatbot wiretapping claims

What security pros should know about insurance coverage for AI chatbot wiretapping claims 2025-11-18 at 08:44 By Mirko Zorz AI-powered chatbots raise profound concerns under federal and state wiretapping and eavesdropping statutes that is being tested by recent litigation, creating greater exposure to the companies and developers that use this technology. Security professionals that integrate

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