Victoria's Secret replaces its website with a message saying “we identified and are taking steps to address a security incident”, and closes some store services
Fashion giant Victoria's Secret has taken down its website and some store services because of an ongoing security incident.
Spotify lays off ~17% of its workforce, or ~1,500 staff, to “rightsize” its costs, citing slow economic growth and rising capital costs, its third cut in 2023
Spotify is eliminating about 17% jobs, its third round of layoffs, as the music streaming looks to become “both productive and efficient.”
Google delays phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome to H2 2024, after deferring the plan from 2022 to 2023, citing the need for more Privacy Sandbox tests
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Apple, Google, and Microsoft plan to offer the FIDO Alliance's passwordless tech on websites and apps, using fingerprint readers, face scanners, and smartphones
a perfect time to think about passkeys. https://www.apple.com/... @can : some dreams come true https://twitter.com/... @k8em0 : This is a true game changer in security https://twit...
Russia has created its own trusted TLS certificate authority as sanctions prevent Russian sites from renewing existing TLS certificates
Yeah, RIGHT TechRadar : Russia creates its own TLS certificate authority to bypass sanctions Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : Russia issues its own TLS certificates to get past...
A look at the fight between city officials and parents over Stockholm's glitchy app for its schools, as annoyed parents built their own open source version
Stockholm's official app was a disaster. So annoyed parents built their own open source version—ignoring warnings that it might be illegal.
Mozilla's crowdsourced study about YouTube over a 10-month period finds 71%+ videos flagged as objectionable by participants were recommended by YouTube itself
OnePlus confirms the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro throttle many popular apps to improve battery life, after investigations found uneven throttling across apps/benchmarks
Kishan Vyas / XDA Developers :
Google delays plans to block third-party cookies from early 2022 to late 2023, says it wants to find ways to protect privacy without hurting ad-dependent sites
With Lots of Entry Points Lane Ellis / B2B Marketing Blog : B2B Marketing News: Brand Social Media Expectations Study, Google Postpones Cookie Changes, & B2B Buyer Behavior Report ...
Mozilla updates Firefox desktop and mobile apps with a revamped design, details the data-driven process used to guide the creation of the new streamlined look
Even though we're in the web browser business … Arthur Edelstein / Mozilla Security Blog : Firefox 89 upgrades Private Browsing Windows with Total Cookie Protection Mozilla : See w...
Researcher finds that Alibaba-owned UC Browser app on iOS and Android sends information on every website a user visits to UCWeb servers, even in incognito mode
If you went to download Alibaba-owned app UC Browser this month, whether from Google's Android Play store or Apple's iOS App Store …
Study: 60% of 73 K-12 apps from 38 schools in 14 states across the US send student data to a variety of third parties, roughly 50% to Google and 14% to Facebook
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed schools around the country to adopt and rely heavily on new technology.
Brave is disabling Google's FLoC tracking method from all of its releases, saying it materially harms user privacy under the guise of being privacy-friendly
Peter Snyder, Senior Privacy Researcher at Brave — FLoC is a recent Google proposal that would have your browser share …
US lawmakers ask 8 digital-ad auctioneers, including Google and AT&T, to name foreign clients who had access to user data through auctions over the past 3 years
In letter to companies including Google and AT&T, lawmakers request information about how user data is shared in auctions
US lawmakers ask 8 digital-ad auctioneers, including Google and AT&T, to name foreign clients who had access to user data through auctions over the past 3 years
In letter to companies including Google and AT&T, lawmakers request information about how user data is shared in auctions
A group of 15 AGs update their antitrust complaint against Google, taking aim at Chrome's Privacy Sandbox and other privacy updates related to ad targeting
it puts Google's Chrome browser at the center of tracking and targeting.'” https://www.theverge.com/... Jason Kint / @jason_kint : In the Facebook and Google collusion charges summ...
The NYT editorial board calls for federal US privacy legislation mandating opt in as default on data collection practices by tech companies like Facebook
Using an opt-in approach will help curb the excesses of Big Tech. — The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views …
Sources: Google is exploring a less-stringent Android alternative to Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature, resembling planned Chrome changes
WhatsApp to delay new privacy policy by three months following widespread confusion over whether the policy would mandate data sharing with Facebook
but what's the point? Yash Wate / TechPP : WhatsApp delays new privacy policy update after user backlash Tweets: @whatsapp : Thank you to everyone who's reached out. We're still wo...
WhatsApp to delay new privacy policy by three months following widespread confusion over whether the policy would mandate data sharing with Facebook
The new update will now go out on May 15th — WhatsApp on Friday announced a three-month delay of a new privacy policy originally slated … Source: WhatsApp Blog .