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.”
Senior Privacy Advocate David Ruiz speaks with Bruce Schneier about artificial intelligence, surveillance, and an era of “mass spying.”
A list of topics we covered in the week of January 15 to January 21 of 2024
A lawsuit just ended with Google paying an incredible $5bn for "misleading users into thinking the company would not track them in incognito mode".
The article then goes to clarify:
Chrome, the browser, does not save your histor…
A nonprofit study claims that Google is failing to delete location history that reveals users’ physical trips to abortion clinics.
Google wants you to know you can still be tracked when you’re incognito.
We are integrating Google login in our app and we intend to use the idToken for authentication. We are already sending the idToken from the app to the back-end server, and intend to verify the token as explained at:
https://developers.goog…
Several info-stealers have incorporated an exploit that allows them to gain permanent access to your Google account
There is a new article explaining the details of the new Google OAuth2 exploit where a Google session can be restored using a Chrome token. But what I can’t seem to find on Google or in the article itself is…
Am I correct in understandi…
From the Password Check FAQ:
"To check your credentials, Chrome first encrypts your username and password. Then it sends the encrypted credentials to Google for comparison against an encrypted list of known breached data. If Chrome d…
Chromebooks are very aggressively priced (massively cheaper than Apple hardware) and also offer netbook formats. I am toying with the idea of buying a Chromebook and only using Flatpak, Debian and F-Droid apps on Chromebook (Crostini). In …