Google has been warning everyone that cookies as a tracking mechanism were going away for a couple of years now. This is not because Google found a soul but rather because Google knows that browsers and users can block or trash cookies making them ineffective as a way to track where you go. In addition, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Interpol Recovers Over $40 Mill from Biz Email Compromise Attack INTERPOL has created a global stop-payment mechanism that it can use to recover funds. A company in Singapore thought they were paying a vendor. Instead they paid a hacker. INTERPOL’s Global Rapid Intervention of Payments or I-GRIP was able to recover $39 million out of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Rolls back Decision to Kill Third Party Cookies Firefox and Safari, along with some other smaller browsers already block third party cookies by default. Google said that they would do the same. Google now says that phasing out third party cookies will hurt their revenue stream, uh, will impact online advertising, so they are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Say ChangeHealth Can File Breach Notice on Behalf of Doctors After All Changing your mind … is a federal agency’s prerogative, apparently. Normally under HIPAA, it is the doctor or hospital that has to file the breach notice and until this week, that was the fed’s (HHS) position for the ChangeHealth breach. However, smarter […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]TikTok Sues US Government; Vows to Prevail No surprise here and without taking a side pro or con; ByteDance and TikTok have filed suit in federal court arguing the law violates the US Constitution. TikTok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew says the company expects to win a legal challenge to block the new law. He says […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Item 1 – Apple is reported to be in negotiations with news companies and other publishers (like NBC and Conde Nast) to “license” their back catalog of content for their AI projects. Apple is offering, supposedly, up to $50 million to license their content, but, at least for now, the content creators were not fans […]
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