Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Bruce Schneier (and others) is reporting on the actions of some phone carriers actions to block the Private Relay service offered by Apple. Apple’s Private Relay Is Being Blocked – Schneier on Security Apple’s Private Relay Roils Telecoms Around the World | WIRED UK Or is it an iOS bug? …
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Here is just a short article from The Guardian, that highlights some of the privacy we all give up. In this case though it benefited law enforcement who caught a wanted criminal who had been on the run using Google Street View. Italian mafia fugitive arrested in Spain after Google …
You must remember that companies such as Alphabet and Meta, apparently give away services for free and so consequently have huge use bases for their apps. However the cost to you is usually some information about your usage, which they can then monetise, because it takes a lot of money …
To be honest that is probably not possible – but Wired has six ways to move towards that goal and reduce your digital footprint. 6 Ways to Delete Yourself From the Internet | WIRED UK I worked my way through the steps in the article.
DuckDuckGo is a search engine that is interested in your privacy and has designed its web browser to protect it and keep you anonymous. Not that it appears many of us out here in internet land care about our privacy – Google builds dossiers about us from out use of …
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Commercial spyware – cyberweapon – it just means trouble. The secret Uganda deal that has brought NSO to the brink of collapse | Ars Technica
This is good news – following an audit the use of personal data, by NHS Test and Trace has been revised to improve the publics privacy. ICO and NHS Test and Trace agree data protection improvements following consensual audit | ICO Here is a summary report: Executive-summary-of-the-nhs-test-and-trace-audit-report.pdf (ico.org.uk)
