This is the Shared Security Weekly Blaze for March 5, 2018 sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston.
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This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for March 5th 2018…with your host…Tom Eston
In this week’s episode: Facebook Face Recognition, Private Web Browsing and Credit Card Fraud
Hi everyone, I’m Tom Eston, Co-host of the Shared Security podcast. Welcome to the Shared Security Weekly Blaze where we update you on the top 3 security and privacy topics from the week. These weekly podcasts are published every Monday and are 15 minutes or less quickly giving you “news that you can use”.
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If you’ve been on Facebook recently you may have seen a message in your news feed about a new feature called “Face Recognition”. This feature will analyze faces to automatically tag you in photos and videos that are posted to Facebook. Facebook says that this “feature” will find photos that you’re in but haven’t been tagged, help protect you from others using your photo and to help people with visual impairments who may be in your photo or video. You can opt out of this feature by turning it off in your Facebook privacy settings. Note, some people have reported that this feature was already set to “on” so it’s a good idea to check out your privacy settings to see if this feature is enabled or not. Check out our show notes for information on where to find this setting.
Not to be overly suspicious but you know as well as I do that this feature will eventually be used to target more ads to you or to allow Facebook more ways to gather data about your activities and monetize your personal information. What I also find ironic is that just this past week a federal judge in Illinois made a ruling about an ongoing class-action case that Facebook “must face claims that it violated the privacy of millions of users by gathering and storing biometric data without their consent”. This decision means that Facebook could be liable for fines under Illinois law from $1,000 to $5,000 dollars each time a person’s image is used without permission. Of course Facebook is fighting this ruling but I’m sure this is not the end of more legal troubles for Facebook since the social network continues to push technology like Facial Recognition to its user base.
Did you know that when you use “private browsing” or “incognito mode” in your web browser, your browsing activities may not be so private after all? Hopefully, you’re aware that the sites you visit can be monitored and logged through your ISP, VPN provider or employer. It’s also important to know that data from a private browsing session can also be retrieved through common computer forensic techniques once someone has physical access to your computer.
Recently a group of MIT and Harvard researchers developed a solution called Veil which allows web developers to implement technology to protect data while it’s stored and processed within a private browsing
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