SparkPress - Privacy and Security News

October 2023

The October ’23 SparkPress includes articles on technology and privacy. Key features include Google’s ANC earbuds update for heart rate monitoring, optimizing Windows 11 privacy settings, and Signal’s president discussing user privacy. Other articles cover T-Mobile’s data privacy lawsuit, Electronic Frontier Foundation’s explanation of passkeys, guides on avoiding doxxing and enabling iMessage’s Contact Key Verification. Further, the impact of privacy policies, crime prevention using reported data, Google’s privacy button’s effectiveness, safe usernames, and the network effect of telecommunication vulnerabilities are discussed. Also included are Mozilla Foundation’s Consumer Creep-O-Meter, the consequences of a single login, new AI regulations from the White House, and the President’s Executive Order on AI.