Liam Tung reports: Mozilla has rolled out a privacy protection it calls “Total Cookie Protection” as the default for the browser on Windows, Mac and Linux. The idea behind Total Cookie Protection is that cookies remain limited to the site from which they were added to a browser. Mozilla’s analogy for the functionality of Total…
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You agreed to what? Doctor check-in software harvests your health data
Gregory Fowler reports: […] Several Washington Post readers recently wrote to Ask Help Desk about a consent form they were asked to sign while checking in for a doctor’s appointment. Most of us just hurriedly fill out whatever paperwork is put in front of us, but these eagle-eyed readers paused at this: “I hereby authorize…
Don’t rely on a business associate agreement if the business associate is Iron Mountain (UPDATED)
Update of June 15: My tweets about the situation described below resulted in Iron Mountain’s Twitter team contacting their internal team, who called me. As of yesterday afternoon, the patient records that had supposedly been securely destroyed more than a year ago were finally securely destroyed. I was also told by customer service that the…
Report: Israel pushing Biden to remove Pegasus spyware from US blacklist
PressTV reports: Israeli regime officials are pushing the US government to remove the controversial spyware company NSO Group from the Department of Commerce blacklist, according to reports. It comes months after the US Department of Commerce said the Israeli spyware company’s activities clashed with the US foreign policy and national security interests. Biden administration is…