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Privacy

A collection of 11 issues

Recall is still bad

Interesting read on Microsoft’s Copilot+ Recall feature. I think I would turn this off in Corporate builds if they insist on releasing it. Recall: Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible.Photographic memory comes to Windows, and is the biggest

Meta at it again

I gave up any Meta accounts a while ago. Partly because they’re quite despicable, but also because…it’s just adverts. But this is a really ‘unusual’ way of complying with EU privacy requirements if you want to opt out of Meta using your data for training their GenAI.

Ticketmaster breached

Half a billion users? Eesh. If confirmed that’s near enough top 10 for biggest data breaches. Ticketmaster hacked. Breach affects more than half a billion users.Emails, phone numbers, addresses, and even financial details have allegedly been exposed by a notorious hacker group.MashableMatt Binder It’s only potentially

Slack happy to use your data

With MS Teams or Google Chat pretty much bundled, I was always a bit frustrated at the desire to use Slack. Development teams love it. But from a cost perspective? Why am I paying for two chat apps? Hey someone has to look after the budget. Anyway, Slack considers customer

The sound of online trackers

A core problem when explaining technology to normal people. How do you get across what can be a complex problem or issue easily and succinctly so folk can understand? It takes practice. Explaining privacy, data trackers, data brokers, data flow, cookies, legislation etc could easily be boring (so very easy)

Being Verified and Privacy

As a much younger man (I think I still had hair colour) I went on a speed reading course. Company sent me. I approached it as I did a lot of courses at that age…suspicious. But it was really good. I started to be a bit more open minded.

Browsers instead of Apps

I find myself using browsers rather than apps more and more nowadays (not Chrome though). Information security and privacy is always at the front of my mind - more so personally. An example - for the Trenitalia app I selected ‘Do not consent’ twice when I signed up. Three times

Meta and Privacy

I wonder if the Irish DPC will make the eyes of the DPCs in other Euro countries roll again? It does take an awfully long time to consider things. Meta offers lower cost for EU ad-free subscription under privacy review | TechCrunchMeta has proposed to drop the price of an ad-free