14 July 2021
Video showing the dangers of sharing personal images online.
Tagged with privacy
08 July 2021
Harry Brignull, who coined the term back in 2010, said dark patterns have got worse.
“I’d hope by naming and shaming these companies and bringing it to light, it would somehow magically make it go away,” Brignull said. “I thought there would be less dark patterns 10 years later. In fact, now, there’s way more than ever before.”
He now runs DarkPatterns.org to crowdsource and call out submitted dark patterns.
08 June 2021
Apple device users will now be able see when individual apps request to access features such as the microphone, camera and phone gallery, plus which third parties they have connected with in the last seven days.
31 March 2021
Cyber-security companies are warning about the rise of so-called 'extortionware' where hackers embarrass victims into paying a ransom.
Experts say the trend towards ransoming sensitive private information could affect companies not just operationally but through reputation damage.
25 February 2021
"When you use an email tracker and comment on when people are replying to an email, you are invading people’s privacy; therefore, this can harm getting the response one wants."
17 February 2021
Spy pixels can be used to log:
if and when an email is opened
how many times it is opened
what device or devices are involved
the user's rough physical location
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