A few precautions can make a huge difference in the safety of your phone and the important things you saved on it. We talk a lot about protection and privacy here in our blog. It’s a bit obvious as our “life” is in our devices nowadays: Photos of our last trip or our loved ones, […]
It’s European #DataProtection day! Every day we visit websites and willingly hand over our name, address, and credit card number. Have you ever thought about what happens to that data or what your rights are? Members of the European Union (EU) enjoy a high standard of protection of their personal data. The Digital Agenda for Europe […]
Privacy plays a growing part in customer buying decisions. With every data breach, trust is eroded further. Privacy and security are intertwined when it comes to our individual information. Consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the value of their personal data, so that means that businesses have to step up and do a better job […]
Posting a privacy notice on your Facebook feed does nothing to keep your updates, photos, or videos private. You need to tweak the settings yourself. You may have noticed a legal-sounding statement being shared on people’s Facebook News Feed lately. As we explained in the blog, Posting a privacy notice on Facebook is useless, […]
An old hoax has been resurrected after Facebook made a recent announcement about its updated privacy policy. The copyright message claims to protect users’ pictures, information, and posts under UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute. It’s seems so official; it just must be true, right? Here is an example that I saw […]
In last night’s broadcast of the Sugar Bowl, a showdown of two power-house college football teams in the USA, Allstate Insurance, aired a series of brilliant commercials about the risk of over-sharing on social networks. The social media team at Avast has been preaching this message for a while now, so we were happy to […]
2015 is arriving and, as usual, tech companies start to launch their updates for the new year. However, it looks like someone is sparking some debate with its recent policies that are to be implemented in less than a month. That someone is… Facebook. After all the controversy around the Facebook Messenger app last summer, […]
Losing contacts from your mobile phone is highly inconvenient. There’s seems to be a solution – You can find them online! The catch? Your contacts are in a publicly accessible place. Seriously. If you care for your privacy you should always be suspicious about “Cloud Backup” solutions you find in the Google Play Store. The […]
Security and privacy violations in Adobe’s Digital Editions eBook and PDF reader were discovered last week. “This is a privacy and security breach so big that I am still trying to wrap my head around the technical aspects, much less the legal aspects,” researcher Nate Hoffelder wrote in The Digital Reader blog post. If you […]
Security and privacy violations in Adobe’s Digital Editions eBook and PDF reader were discovered last week. “This is a privacy and security breach so big that I am still trying to wrap my head around the technical aspects, much less the legal aspects,” researcher Nate Hoffelder wrote in The Digital Reader blog post. If you […]