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Home News Computing (Image credit: Shutterstock / Sundry Photography) True to its word, Google has officially launched a beta of its “Privacy Sandbox”, a growing set of disparate initiatives designed to anonymise data tracking without wholly preventing it.Per the landing page (opens in new tab) for the release (via Gizmodo (opens in new tab)), the

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, enacted in 2018, provides far-from-perfect data privacy protection, but it stands in stark contrast to the legislative dearth in the United States, where there are no comprehensive federal data privacy laws on the books. In his second State of the Union address, though, US President Joe Biden devoted

sdx15/Shutterstock Android 12 made Google's popular OS more transparent but also more privacy-friendly than ever — introducing microphone and camera indicators and toggles, finer control over permissions, one-time hardware access, and more aggressive app sandboxing. But the handiest privacy addition was the Privacy Dashboard (via Google). Privacy Dashboard is a hub that aggregates all privacy settings

Happy Data Privacy Day! Yes, it's a completely made-up holiday, but it's as good a time as any to take a hard look at your online life and shore up your efforts to protect your personal digital privacy. The annual occasion, feted by cybersecurity and digital privacy enthusiasts around the world, began in the US and

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Since Apple introduced its ATT privacy framework to give app users more control over their data, ad tech businesses have been tasked with making tradeoffs to comply with new data restrictions while still meeting their growth goals.Still, while mobile advertisers can no longer