News Google Introduces Chrome Enterprise Premium for Enhanced Corporate Security Priced at $6 per user per month, this new offering is designed to cater to organizations seeking advanced security features beyond the basic protections provided by the standard Chrome browser.
News Vivaldi Browser Is Finally Coming to iPhones and iPads Traditionally, browsers on iOS are built on the WebKit engine, necessitating Vivaldi's iOS version to be developed from the ground up. This resulted in a delayed release compared to its Android counterpart, which has been available since 2018.
News Meta Considers Offering Paid Ad-Free Versions of Facebook and Instagram in Europe Those who opt for the paid subscriptions would experience Facebook and Instagram without advertisements. This move aims to address privacy concerns and regulatory scrutiny from EU authorities.
News Firefox Introduces a New Built-In Email Masking Tool for Enhanced Privacy Relay creates a disposable email mask that can be used for site registrations and form submissions. This innovative approach ensures that the user's real email address remains hidden and protected from potential data breaches.
News Google Will Ask Users to Verify Suspicious Actions on Gmail to Enhance Security If the system detects potentially suspicious activity, it will require additional identity verification, such as entering a code from an SMS or secondary email. If verification fails, a notification requesting confirmation will be sent to trusted devices.
News Google Search Now Automatically Blurs Explicit Images Users retain the flexibility to adjust or deactivate the SafeSearch blur setting in their account configurations, unless the setting has been locked by a guardian or a school network administrator.
News Windows 11 Preview Adds Biometric Login for Websites To utilize this feature, users can visit websites that support password-less logins on Windows and create passkeys from their account settings. The passkeys can then be used to sign in to the respective accounts using Windows Hello.
News Apple and Google Team Up to Tackle Unwanted Tracking Through Tracking Devices After increasing complaints from users about unwanted surveillance and concerns over devices' safety, the companies announced the development of the new technology that can combat the misuse of Bluetooth devices for location tracking.
News Google Now Lets Users Access Their Accounts with Passkeys The new technology uses your device biometrics (either your fingerprint or your face) or its pin to confirm it's you signing in. It basically allows using your device instead of a password for authentication.
News Twitter Created a Web Game to Explain Its Privacy Policy The game is set in PrivaCity, and your task is to navigate a dog named Data safely to the part. Along the way, you will "dodge cat ads, swim through a sea of DMs, battle trolls, and learn how to take control of your Twitter experience along the way."
News Google Chrome Will Automatically Change Stolen Passwords If Chrome detects that a certain password should be changed, the user will be prompted to have it changed automatically by pressing a single button in a pop-up window. The feature is powered by Google Assistant and Google Duplex technology.
News Google Abandons FLoC and Replaces Third-Party Cookies With Topics With Topics, the new concept will assign users five interests per week based on their web activity. These interests will be stored for up to three weeks. To do this, Google created a list of about 350 topics available in its advertising taxonomy.
News Meta Launches a New Tool to Stop the Spread of Revenge Porn This platform is the first global initiative to help people concerned that their intimate photos might have been shared or may be shared on social media platforms like Instagram or Facebook without their consent.
News Apple Is Suing Israeli NSO Group Over Its Pegasus Spyware According to Apple, the spyware was illegally installed on users' devices by NSO Group, without users knowing, to track their activities and gain access to users' cameras, messages, microphones, photos, and other sensitive data.
News Instagram Asks Some Users to Take a Video Selfie to Verify Their Identity Instagram is now using a new way of verifying the identity of users. The social media platform asks some users to take video selfies from different angles. This feature is said to help make sure that an account is operated by a real person and not a bot.
News Google Will Make 2-Factor Authentication on by Default Together with millions of Google users, more than two million content creators on YouTube will also switch to two-factor authentication by the end of this year. Google states that users will also be able to use security keys for authorization.
News Apple Will Not Scan iPhones for Child Abuse Images Over Criticism Apple announced an operating system update that will have a feature for scanning images when they are uploaded to iCloud and checking them for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) last month.
News TikTok Will Turn Off Late-Night Notifications for Teens One of the most notable changes is related to push notifications. From now on, user accounts of teenagers aged 13-15 will no longer receive push notifications after 9PM, and teens aged 16-17 will stop receiving them after 10PM.
News Google Is Paying $2.15 to Google+ Users Affected by a Data Leak The lawsuit was filed after Google failed to disclose a vulnerability in the Google+ API for third-party application developers. Using this vulnerability, attackers could gain access to such personal data of users as name, gender, age, and email address.
News iPhone Will Warn Parents and Kids About Child Abuse Images The new feature is likely to be very useful for parents or the police, but many data privacy experts are already concerned about the announcement, including Matthew D. Green, an associate professor of cryptography at Johns Hopkins University.
News Zoom Will Pay Users $85 Million for Violating Their Privacy The company made the corresponding decision because of the class action lawsuit claiming that Zoom violated users' privacy rights by sharing their data with Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn. Thus, hackers could disrupt Zoom meetings.
News WhatsApp Will Limit the Functionality of Some Users on May 15 WhatsApp reminded users that new rules for using the messenger will come into force on May 15, as well as told users what will happen to the accounts of those who do not accept the changes.
News WhatsApp's New Privacy Policy Might Be Illegal WhatsApp's new privacy policy may be illegal, but representatives of WhatsApp still assure its users that the update will not affect the users' correspondence in any way, and it will still be encrypted.