Day: April 12, 2019

Sonos finally blasted in complaint to UK privacy watchdog – lets hope they do something with it

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Sonos stands accused of seeking to obtain “excessive” amounts of personal data without valid consent in a complaint filed with the UK’s data watchdog. The complaint, lodged by tech lawyer George Gardiner in a personal capacity, challenges the Sonos privacy policy’s compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation and the UK’s implementation of that law. Read more about Sonos finally blasted in complaint to UK privacy watchdog – lets hope they do something with it[…]

Two out of three hotels accidentally leak guests’ personal data to third parties

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Two out of three hotel websites inadvertently leak guests’ booking details and personal data to third-party sites, including advertisers and analytics companies, according to research released by Symantec Corp on Wednesday. The study, which looked at more than 1,500 hotel websites in 54 countries that ranged from two-star to five-star properties, comes several months after Read more about Two out of three hotels accidentally leak guests’ personal data to third parties[…]

Increase Your Privacy in Windows 10 With ‘O&O ShutUp10’

Posted on by Robin Edgar

You might not even know what options you can tweak (or turn off) in your operating system, which is where the cleverly named O&O ShutUp10 application comes in to play. It’s a simple application that makes it incredibly easy to tweak various aspects of Windows 10 that are normally buried or otherwise inaccessible to regular people. Read more about Increase Your Privacy in Windows 10 With ‘O&O ShutUp10’[…]

Assange Charges Finally Reveal Why Chelsea Manning Is Sitting in Jail

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Charges announced by the Justice Department on Thursday against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange provide fresh insight into why federal prosecutors sought to question whistleblower Chelsea Manning last month before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. Manning, convicted in 2013 of leaking classified U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks, was jailed in early Read more about Assange Charges Finally Reveal Why Chelsea Manning Is Sitting in Jail[…]

EU Tells Internet Archive That Much Of Its Site Is ‘Terrorist Content’, shows how it will censor the internet with no recourse

Posted on by Robin Edgar

We’ve been trying to explain for the past few months just how absolutely insane the new EU Terrorist Content Regulation will be for the internet. Among many other bad provisions, the big one is that it would require content removal within one hour as long as any “competent authority” within the EU sends a notice Read more about EU Tells Internet Archive That Much Of Its Site Is ‘Terrorist Content’, shows how it will censor the internet with no recourse[…]

Serious flaws found in WPA3’s wifi Handshake

Posted on by Robin Edgar

because WPA2 is more than 14 years old, the Wi-Fi Alliance recently announced the new and more secure WPA3 protocol. One of the main advantages of WPA3 is that, thanks to its underlying Dragonfly handshake, it’s near impossible to crack the password of a network. Unfortunately, we found that even with WPA3, an attacker within Read more about Serious flaws found in WPA3’s wifi Handshake[…]