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Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers

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Mozilla is ending its partnership with Onerep after the company’s CEO admitted to having ties to a data broker, as first reported by Krebs on Security. “Though customer data was never at risk, the outside financial interests and activities of Onerep’s CEO do not align with our values,” writes Mozilla’s vice president of communications Brandon … Read more

Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show

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Lonely on Valentine’s Day? AI can help. At least, that’s what a number of companies hawking “romantic” chatbots will tell you. But as your robot love story unfolds, there’s a tradeoff you may not realize you’re making. According to a new study from Mozilla’s *Privacy Not Included project, AI girlfriends and boyfriends harvest shockingly personal … Read more

Mozilla Monitor will attempt to stop data brokers from selling your personal info on the internet

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Have you ever googled yourself and found a slew of results from “people finder” websites with your personal data? These data brokers often profit from selling your information, which can include everything from your social media profiles to your real-world home address. Mozilla, the organization behind the popular Firefox web browser, has just launched a … Read more

Firefox Testing a New Feature to Weed Out Fake Customer Reviews

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Image: LEON NEAL / Staff (Getty Images) According to a recent story by MSPowerUser, Mozilla Firefox has recently been testing an experimental feature called Review Checker. This feature is powered by Fakespot, which Firefox acquired earlier this year. Google’s Pixel 8 and 8 Pro are New, and Somewhat Improved Fakespot is an online service that … Read more

Apple, Microsoft, and Google Just Fixed Multiple Zero-Day Flaws

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Earlier in the month, Google fixed another zero-day flaw, a heap buffer overflow issue initially tracked as CVE-2023-4863, which it thought impacted only the Chrome browser. But two weeks after fixing the issue, researchers discovered it was worse than they thought, affecting the widely-used libwebp image library for rendering images in the WebP format. Now … Read more

Mozilla: Your New Automobile Is a Information Privateness Nightmare

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Eighty-four % of the manufacturers that researchers studied share or promote this type of private knowledge, and solely two of them permit drivers to have their knowledge deleted. Whereas it’s unclear precisely who these corporations share or promote knowledge to, the report factors out that there’s a large marketplace for driver knowledge. An automotive knowledge … Read more

Mozilla Report Finds That New Automobiles Give Out A lot of Your Data

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Dangerous information: your automobile is a spy. In case your automobile was made in the previous few years, you’re in all probability driving round in a data-harvesting machine that will accumulate private data as delicate as your race, weight, and sexual exercise. Volkswagen’s vehicles reportedly know for those who’re fastening your seatbelt and the way … Read more

The 5 Finest VPNs for the Again to College Faculty Season

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Digital Non-public Networks, higher generally known as VPNs, are companies that route your visitors by means of a kind of encrypted tunnel, hiding your on-line actions out of your web service supplier and anybody else who manages your community. That makes VPNs a software you need to positively not think about using if you land … Read more