Getty Images Avast, a name known for its security research and antivirus apps, has long offered Chrome extensions, mobile apps, and other tools aimed at increasing privacy. Avast’s apps would “block annoying tracking cookies that…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday said it will ban the antivirus giant Avast from selling consumers’ web browsing data to advertisers after Avast claimed its products would prevent its users from online tracking.…
Mozilla is best known for its Firefox browser, but compared to rivals, it’s not nearly as popular. As part of the company’s efforts to turn its attention back to Firefox, several of its standalone products…
A bug in the online forum for the fertility tracking app Glow exposed the personal data of around 25 million users, according to a security researcher. The bug exposed users’ first and last names, self-reported…
Don’t type anything into Gemini, Google’s family of GenAI apps, that’s incriminating — or that you wouldn’t want someone else to see. That’s the PSA (of sorts) today from Google, which in a new support…
Mozilla today is introducing a new subscription service that will help people locate and remove their personal and sensitive information from data broker websites around the web. This includes the ability to remove your phone…
A virtual private network, aka VPN, service can help protect your identity and location, and keep your activities online anonymous and obscured from prying eyes. There are a few things you’ll want to consider when…
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has continued its crackdown on data brokers with a settlement banning data aggregation company InMarket from selling consumers’ precise location data. Texas-based InMarket, which debuted as CheckPoints at TechCrunch Disrupt…
?Jan 16, 2024?The Hacker NewsData Security / Privacy Compliance Explore how an advanced exposure management solution saved a major retail industry client from ending up on the naughty step due to a misconfiguration in its…