Your vacation, reservations, and online dates, now chosen by AI: Lock and Code S05E11
This week on Lock and Code, we talk about what people lose when they let AI services make choices for dinners, reservations, and even dating.
Read moreGoogle patches critical vulnerability for Androids with Qualcomm chips
Google has issued patches for 28 security vulnerabilities, including a critical patch for Androids with Qualcomm chips.
Read moreDownload: UEM vendor comparison chart 2024
Credit to Author: ,| Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 03:00:00 -0800
Unified endpoint management (UEM) is a strategic IT approach that consolidates how enterprises secure and manage an array of deployed devices including phones, tablets, PCs, and even IoT devices.
As remote and hybrid work models have become the norm over the past two years, “mobility management” has come to mean management of not just mobile devices, but all devices used by mobile employees wherever they are. UEM tools incorporate existing enterprise mobility management (EMM) technologies, such as mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM), with tools used to manage desktop PCs and laptops.
What a future without browser cookies looks like
Most online users have experienced it. You do an online search for healthcare purposes, travel information, or something to buy and soon you’re being bombarded with emails and targeted online ads for everything related to your search. That’s because browser cookies were tracking you as you performed your searches; they identified you and your activity.
Over the past few years, the online advertising industry has been undergoing a sea change as regulators restricted how cookies can be used and browser providers moved away from their use in response to consumer outcries over privacy.
“They often feel surveilled; some even find it ‘creepy’ that a website can show them ads related to their behavior elsewhere,” according to a recent study by the HEC Paris Business School.
In conversation: Bruce Schneier on AI-powered mass spying
Senior Privacy Advocate David Ruiz speaks with Bruce Schneier about artificial intelligence, surveillance, and an era of “mass spying.”
Read moreUsing Google Search to Find Software Can Be Risky
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:38:43 +0000
Google continues to struggle with cybercriminals running malicious ads on its search platform to trick people into downloading booby-trapped copies of popular free software applications. The malicious ads, which appear above organic search results and often precede links to legitimate sources of the same software, can make searching for software on Google a dicey affair.
Read moreGoogle failing to scrub abortion access in location history, study claims
A nonprofit study claims that Google is failing to delete location history that reveals users’ physical trips to abortion clinics.
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