Richard Nieva reports: Two children from Illinois are suing Google for allegedly collecting biometric data, including face scans, of millions of students through the search giant’s software tools for classrooms. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in a federal court in San Jose, California, is seeking class-action status. The children, known only as H.K. and J.C. in the complaint,…
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Do you use Mozilla Firefox to Access Twitter? Read This.
The following notice from Twitter greeted users on April 2: We recently learned that the way Mozilla Firefox stores cached data from Twitter may have resulted in non-public information being inadvertently stored in the browser’s cache. For example, if you downloaded your data using Firefox, the browser may have retained a copy of the download…
More on privacy concerns using Zoom
Seen on Twitter this morning: Just a by the by: “private” messages sent to individual people during a Zoom meeting show up in the end-of-meeting transcript along with all other public messages. Tell your friends, save a life. — Christian Moriarty (@MoriartyCR) April 3, 2020 Just a by the by: “private” messages sent to individual…
How to Secure Your Zoom Meetings from Zoom-Bombing Attacks
Lawrence Abrams has a guide to securing your Zoom meetings from those who would disrupt it. He also provides a quick overview as to the privacy concerns if you were not already aware of them. If you are using Zoom for work while you work from home, I encourage you to read his free article…