Yoav Aviram, Author at Conscious Digital

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Firefox’s new protection against fingerprinting

Firefox already has an Enhanced Tracking Protection feature that blocks a list of known "fingerprinters" when your privacy settings are set to Standard (the default) or Strict. Fingerprinting Protection is…

Yoav Aviram23 May 2022

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Today Google is turning on tracking for many users that previously turned it off

Effective today, Google is changing its Workspace Settings, including a change that activates activity tracking for all users of Google Workspace accounts even if the organizations admin disabled activity tracking…

Yoav Aviram29 March 2022

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Privacy International: EU supports surveillance in non-member countries

Privacy International and 13 other civil society organizations have obtained hundreds of official EU documents which show: How police and security agencies in Africa and the Balkans are trained with the…

Yoav Aviram8 December 2020

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Geekwire: Microsoft will remove user names from ‘Productivity Score’

In late October Microsoft released a new “Productivity Score” feature as part of Microsoft 365. The feature enabled full workplace surveillance by letting managers see individual user data by default.…

Yoav Aviram3 December 2020

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Seattle Times: Washington needs strong privacy law

The Seattle Times reports on Seattle's new draft privacy act which is due to get enacted in early 2021. Ironically, it seems state senator Reuven Carlyle, D-Seattle, who is championing…

Yoav Aviram3 December 2020

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French DPA fines Carrefour Group 3.05 million for GDPR violations

Carrefour France and Carrefour Banque, affiliates of the French retail group, the Carrefour Group where fined €3.05 million by the French Data Protection Agency for GDPR violations following complaints from…

Yoav Aviram3 December 2020

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ZDNet: The biggest hacks and data breaches of 2020

ZDNet published a list of the top data breaches for 2020. The report explains: “As a large swathe of the global population shifted to work from home models and businesses…

Yoav Aviram3 December 2020