privacy

by Andreas Wiebe >

Is facial recognition dangerous?

it is used to monitor certain public places, recognize people in social media, or optimize security measures at train stations or airports. But problems can quickly arise if the people concerned are not informed and do not give their consent. [...]

Date: 12 Jan 2023 Tags: Facial recognition, dangerous, TECHNOLOGY, recognize, Legal, privacy

 

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Apple Is Tracking You Even When Its Own Privacy Settings Say It’s Not

According to a new report by independent researchers, though, Apple collects extremely detailed information on you with its own apps even when you turn off tracking, an apparent direct contradiction of Apple’s own description of how the privacy protection works. [...]

Date: 09 Nov 2022 Tags: Apple, Apple-Apps, Tracking, privacy, privacymatters, settings

 

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Australia wants to identify all social media users with digital IDs

Anyone who spends time on social media and is active there is to be able to be uniquely identified with a digital ID in Australia from now on. There is a lot of discussion about biometric and digital identification. [...]

Date: 04 Aug 2022 Tags: Australia, digital ID, Social Media, Identity programs, misinformation, privacy

 

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VR goggles Oculus Rift turn out to be a data hunter

Once upon a time, these very special VR glasses started as a Kickstarter and as an independent project, but now the situation looks very different. The Oculus Rift VR goggles function like a giant data hunter on Facebook. [...]

Date: 01 Jul 2022 Tags: Oculus-Rift, VR goggles, data hunter, facebook, collect data, privacy

 

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Zoom plans to read emotions from the faces

As a globally popular program, Zoom now intends to also scan the emotions of conference participants in the future so that their faces can be read accordingly. Civil rights activists are sounding the alarm. [...]

Date: 27 Jun 2022 Tags: Zoom, emotion scanner, videocall, privacy, monitored

 

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Meta and Apple apparently passed on user data to criminals

According to media reports, there was a recent leak of sensitive user data. Both Apple and Meta were affected. Emergency requests were misused for this, but they were not genuine. [...]

Date: 09 May 2022 Tags: Meta, Apple, user data, criminals, hackers, privacy

 

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Vulnerable due to weak passwords

If you want to protect yourself from criminal attacks from the net, you have to choose a secure password. Weak passwords automatically increase the risk. Only a few companies actually succeed in enforcing [...]

Date: 17 Jan 2022 Tags: passwords, privacy, guidelines, stolen password, Two-factor authentication, phishing attacks

 

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Swisscows Privacy Search

Finally we can offer you app from our data secure search engine Swisscows, which serves for absolute security. Swisscows App enables secure web search and provides optimal and non-manipulated search results, privately and [...]

Date: 08 Dec 2021 Tags: Swisscows, privacy, PrivateSearch, data-safe, anonymous, safety

 

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Swisscows Privacy Search App

Endlich können wir Ihnen App von unserer datensicherer Suchmaschine Swisscows anbieten, die zur absoluten Sicherheit dient. Swisscows [https://swisscows.com/] App ermöglicht eine sichere Websuche und bietet optimale und nicht manipulierte Suchergebnisse, privat [...]

Datum: 08 Dez. 2021 Tags: Swisscows, App, privacy, Search, PrivateSearch, Suchmaschine

 

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Advantages and disadvantages of the nude photo filter for iMessage

The special nude photo filter for iMessage will soon be on all Apple user devices. However, this is a very controversial feature. This will be loaded onto every iPhone with the new update. [...]

Date: 03 Dec 2021 Tags: iMessage, Filter, Photo, Image, privacy, analyze

 

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The demographics of cybercrime

Research has shown that there are indeed groups of the population who are more exposed to cybercrime. These include mostly uneducated and low-income groups. So cybercrime does not affect everyone equally. Certain demographic [...]

Date: 24 Nov 2021 Tags: cybercrime, demographics, threat, Internet, security, privacy

 

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Beware! Corona virus - License for mass surveillance?!

In Austria, Italy and Germany, people are monitored by respective telecommunications providers, this is now being discussed in Switzerland. Is cell phone tracking a sensible solution to contain the corona virus, or will the state have a powerful mass surveillance tool at its feet? [...]

Date: 26 Mar 2020 Tags: Corona virus, surveillance, telecommunications, cell phone tracking, privacy

 

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Der Weg zur totalen Überwachung

Die Polizei in Wales will eine App testen, die es Polizisten ermöglicht, vor Ort die Identität einer kontrollierten Person auszumachen. Es ist jedoch ein sehr heiss umstrittenes Thema, da stark in die Grundrechte des Menschen eingegriffen wird, was einigen gar nicht gefällt. [...]

Datum: 19 Aug. 2019 Tags: Polizei, App, Gesichtserkennung, Überwachung, Datenschutz, privacymatters

 

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Saxony-Anhalt gets out on Facebook

Saxony-Anhalt has now also recognized it. Saxony-Anhalt will be the first federal state to remove its Facebook presence from the net. It has recognized that data protection is an important issue and wants to close the Facebook page with more than 12,000 subscribers. [...]

Date: 24 Jun 2019 Tags: facebook, data protection, privacy, privacymatters

 

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Into the Stasi era with Alexa

When Amazon introduced the voice-operated assistant, the world was thrilled. After all, it's also a good idea, because with Alexa you can play music, set an alarm or manage calendars, and all that is voice-controlled. [...]

Date: 22 May 2019 Tags: amazon, Alexa, privacy, secure, Cam, Cyber

 

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Google with new business model "Privacy"

You can earn a lot of money with user data. Google is a showcase example. No other company knows us better and because of this data, the group can place ads perfectly. [...]

Date: 21 May 2019 Tags: Google, Datenschutz, privacymatters, privacy, secure, Search Engigen

 

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Where the state intervenes in our privacy

As you may have heard, the EU countries are planning to collect biometric data of citizens in Europe. Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) considers the collection to be "absolutely necessary". But why? [...]

Date: 13 May 2019 Tags: privacy, privacymatters, fingerprints, chip

 

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Why DuckDuckGo should NOT be trusted…

DuckDuckGo is good enough to reduce the tracking of advertisers and to reduce the data profile as much as possible, but does not offer the protection that some hope for. [...]

Date: 13 May 2019 Tags: privacymatters, secure, monitoring, privacy, DuckDuckGo, Swisscows

 

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Why Swisscows has what it takes to become a serious competitor to Google

he search engine Swisscows launched in 2014 wants to stand up to Google and become a serious competitor. Why this is not hot air, is obvious. [...]

Date: 10 Apr 2019 Tags: Swisscows, Google, privacymatters, privacy, monitoring