- DuckDuckGo Privacy Features: The Fire Button [duckduckgo.com]
Ever wish you could wipe the slate clean online? Our Fire Button burns away traces of websites that you’ve visited (like cookies and website caches), browsing session information (like open tabs and URL history), and permissions you’ve granted to websites (like geolocation, camera, and microphone settings).
If you’re not ready to burn it all, don’t worry! Our browsers let you “fireproof” any websites of your choice. This preserves helpful data like 1st-party cookies and storage, letting you stay signed into frequently-used sites.
In the news...
- Google Pays $30m to Settle Lawsuit Over Children's YouTube Data [techcrunch.com]
Google will pay $30 million to settle claims that YouTube illegally collected data from millions of kids under 13. The lawsuit covers children who watched YouTube between 2013 and 2020, potentially up to 45 million people.
- Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database [wired.com]
"Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found a publicly accessible database in mid-July that appeared to contain medical records, mental health evaluations, physician reports, and images of IDs like driver's licenses for people seeking medical cannabis cards. The 323-GB trove stored close to a million records, including Social Security numbers, email addresses, physical addresses, dates of birth, and medical data—all organized by name," report Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess.
"Databases that are misconfigured and have inadvertently been left publicly exposed on the open internet are a common problem online in spite of efforts to raise awareness about the mistake and its privacy implications."
- We Are Tech Privacy Reporters. Our Music Habits Got Doxxed.
[nytimes.com]
Mike Isaac and Kashmir Hill report that "an anonymous prankster spun up a website revealing the purported Spotify listening habits of about 50 people, including politicians, tech executives and journalists. The person, who called himself 'Tim,' compiled the list from Spotify profiles that the subjects seemed to be unaware were public."
"Because of Spotify’s privacy settings, any new playlist is set to public by default. To hide past playlists from others, users have to go to each one and flick the switch to private. Even to us, two reporters who cover technology and privacy for a living, this was a surprise."
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