Author: Gus Fraser
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Your Face Belongs To Us
A new book titled “Your Face Belongs To Us” by Kashmir Hill explores the rise of facial recognition company Clearview AI, detailing the risks and dangers of unrestricted access to biometric search engines. The author discusses potential privacy infringement, abuse, and the potential end of anonymity. The author also shares personal experiences with Clearview and…
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Meta Hacks: A Cautionary Tale
If you receive a text like this one, it appears to be (and is) a legitimate one from Meta. However, you are very likely being hacked! I get contacted on a regular basis about hacked accounts and how to recover them. This particular case had me stumped for a while; ingenious hackers were able to re-gain access…
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John Lewis’s data sharing
Another day, another alarming example of data sharing that unfortunately hasn’t changed much… The Financial Times originally published the article with this insightful map in January 2018 (ahead of GDPR) about John Lewis, a supposedly ethical retailer (to be fair, their privacy policy is well-written) as an example of data capture & sharing – the article is…
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Data Misuse Is Our Business Model
Facebook / Meta has long been abusing data. These posters surfaced in 2018, around the time of Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional hearing. A PR stunt to balance the negative press that backfired somewhat… Unfortunately at the time of writing, not much has changed (nor do I expect it to!) This week’s case is brought to you…
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BLOKK: Stop Tracking Me
Did you know that nearly all of your apps are leaking data? At Revoke, we recently launched a new app: BLOKK. Without BLOKK, your phone is leaking data and you have no visibility or control over what is happening! Apple claims to be privacy-centric… Google makes no such claims… many app developers do not inform…
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Data Protection Day 2022 – Data Dystopia is here already!
Happy Data Protection Day 2022! I was invited by Santander Work Café to give a talk today (thank you for the invitation!) on Data Protection Day. My talk was initially inspired by two main events; 1. A recent hack and compromise of an account (twice!) despite having 2FA on (also known as two factor, two-step or multi-factor authentication).…
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Jersey Tech Awards Double Winners!
Delighted to have accepted this award on Friday night on behalf of the whole team at Revoke who have worked hard building and shipping an amazing product and platform in 8 languages across multiple continents! Not only did we scoop the “Security/Privacy Award of the Year” but with my Atam hat on, we won “Product…
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Online Privacy in a Post-COVID World
I recently gave a talk to the PrivSec Global virtual conference about online privacy after Covid. The coronavirus pandemic has had seismic effects across society and business as a whole and the challenges it has brought to data protection are huge. The speed of change required and the unpredictable nature of pandemics had made it…
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Securing your Facebook Business Pages
Protect your Facebook personal and Business pages! Simple steps to secure your accounts and dramatically mitigate the risk of being hacked.
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Who has your data?
Everything you do online leaves a trace, but that doesn’t make it something to be feared. As ever, knowledge is key, and as scandals such as one involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica break, and then wash over us, we find out a little more about what will become (if it isn’t there already) one of…