Ukraine Starts Using Clearview Facial Rec to Detect Ruskies Ukraine is using Clearview’s facial recognition tech to identify Russian operatives trying to infiltrate the Ministry of Defense. Clearview has over 2 billion photos scraped from Russia’s social media service VKontakte. They are not sharing with Russia. That likely makes Clearview a high priority hacking target […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Trump is Not Happy About Launch of Twitter-Like Truth Social Apparently not happy is a bit of an understatement. He has a lot to lose if this is not successful. As part of the SPAC deal with Digital World, he has a lot of shares. If the stock, which is still going up slowly, tanks, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Decreased Account Takeovers by 50% by Mandating 2FA Late last year Google forced about a hundred fifty million users to start using multi-factor authentication. What results did they see? Account takeovers in that group were reduced by 50%. Google has previously said that only 10% of their users were using MFA. Now they are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google is being sued. Again. This is not news. What is news is why they are being sued. Google says that they don’t sell your data. While that may be accurate, they do, according to a new lawsuit, give it away to anyone who wants it. How does that work? Google sells ads. While some […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google is facing a class action lawsuit for, the plaintiffs say, selling your data. The law firm that filed the case knows a bit about these kind of lawsuits. The firm, Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP has previously won settlements in the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars. The were part of the team […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First, what are cookies? For those who don’t know, they are small text files, often encrypted, placed on your phone or computer by web sites so that they can track your actions. Cookies come in two flavors. FIRST PARTY cookies are cookies placed on your device by the website that you are visiting. THIRD PARTY […]
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