- How Secure Is DuckDuckGo's Built-In Password Manager? [duckduckgo.com]
Did you know we rolled out Sync & Backup earlier this year, so you can privately and securely sync bookmarks, passwords, and Email Protection settings between DuckDuckGo browsers on your phones, tablets, and computers?
Our built-in password manager has a range of robust security protections in place to keep your passwords safe — and accessible only by you:
- On-device encryption and storage
- Locks access behind secure on-device authentication
- Lets you generate secure passwords on the fly
- Phishing protection for autofill
- Sync & Backup is easy to set up when you’re ready
Try it out in the DuckDuckGo browser today!
In the news...
- Elon Musk's X Is Changing Its Privacy Policy to Allow Third Parties to Train AI on Your Posts [techcrunch.com]
Sarah Perez reports that "social network X (formerly Twitter) updated its Privacy Policy to indicate that it would allow third-party 'collaborators' to train their AI models on X data, unless users opt out."
"The policy points to the settings page on X, but does not specifically indicate where users would go within the settings to toggle off data-sharing... That may be because the updated privacy policy won’t become effective until November 15, at which point the opt-out option could be added. (We hope.)"
- Stop Exposing Your Venmo Activity by Changing This Privacy Setting. Here's Why [zdnet.com]
It's fairly easy to make your Venmo private — from your home screen, tap "Me" in the lower right corner, then tap "Settings" in the top right corner. Head to the "Privacy" section and you'll see three choices: "Public," which is visible to anyone, "Friends," which is only visible to the sender, the recipient, and their Venmo friends, and "Private," which is visible to the sender and recipient only.
Why go private? Alex Beaty warns that "online trolls, stalkers, ex-spouses, [and] law enforcement" could easily access, and potentially exploit not only your contact lists, but your friends' contact lists" if they're also set to "Public" — which is Venmo's default setting.
- This AI Tool Helped Convict People of Murder. Then Someone Took a Closer Look [wired.com]
"Global Intelligence claims that, using only open source data—public information that doesn’t require a warrant—and a suite of more than 700 algorithms, its Cybercheck system allegedly can geolocate an individual in real time or at a specific time in the past by detecting the wireless networks and access points the person’s 'cyber profile' has interacted with," says Todd Feathers. "But a WIRED review of investigations involving Cybercheck from California to New York, based on hundreds of pages of court filings, testimony, interviews, and police records, suggests Cybercheck is a much less effective tool—one that has provided evidence in high-profile cases that was either demonstrably incorrect or couldn’t be verified by any other means."
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