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Why Knowledge Based Authentication Is Useless

Knowledge Based Authentication – using information that only you know – used to be a very popular method for validating that you are you.  Examples of this are when a customer service agent asks you for your birth date, last four of your social or where you were born.  The credit bureaus even sell that […]

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Max Schrems Vendetta Continues Against Facebook

In March I wrote about Max Schrems one man war against Facebook and their privacy-stealing policy (see post here).  He originally went to the Irish data protection commissioner but withdrew that complaint after it became clear that nothing would get resolved in that venue for years.  Then he went to the Vienna District Court saying […]

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Privacy Group Files FTC Complaint Against Uber

As if Uber didn’t have enough challenges, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a complaint with the FTC against Uber.  EPIC says, in it’s complaint, that Uber’s new privacy policy allows Uber to collect precise customer location information, even if the app is running in the background or the customer has turned off their […]

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