This is the Shared Security Weekly Blaze for February 26, 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 February 26th 2018…with your host…Tom Eston
In this week’s episode: AI Enabled Privacy Policies, New Android Updates and Hotel Room Inspections
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”.
Before we jump into the news I wanted to give some shout outs this week to several of our listeners for commenting, liking and sharing our posts on social media @Yohun, @borderless_i, @securid and @b0dach on Twitter as well as @cyberspacearmor and @silentpocket on Instagram and Andrew, Shawn and Jason on Facebook. Thank you for your support of the show!
Do you ever read the privacy notices that are found linked in super tiny text at the bottom of a web page or the “privacy notice” emails you receive for the many different services and websites that you use? If you answered no, well you’re not alone. According to studies noted by security firm Sophos, 98% of us don’t read privacy notices. According to another study, it would take a person 30 full working days to read all the privacy notices for services the average person uses. While no one has time for that, let’s not forget that most privacy notices are filled with legal language and typically very difficult to understand. We really need a better way to understand how websites and services are using our personal information.
Enter AI to the rescue! A new AI based technology called (POL-IS-IS) “Polisis” aims to visualize privacy notices through machine learning. This tool can create visual flow charts based on what is written in the notice giving users a visual idea of what type of information is being collected and what options are available to users of these services.
What I really like about Polisis is that they have thousands of privacy notices on their site that have already been analyzed. For example, you can type in Facebook.com to get analysis of their privacy notice as well as many other sites that you may frequently use. You can even submit links to other policies on the web to have them analyzed as well. Check out the show notes for the link to Polisis and if you’re interested in learning more about privacy notices be sure to check out the interview with did with Rebecca Herold, also known as the Privacy Professor, in Episode 71 of the podcast.
Have an Android phone? If you do you’ll want upgrade to the soon to be released Android 9.0 operating system (or currently known as “Android P”) for two new privacy features that are being added. According to several news sources, the new Android operating system will prevent an app from using the camera or microphone when the app is idling in the background. Once the app becomes active, the camera and microphone are available to the app again. This feature fixes a large privacy concern about the ability of malicious apps being able to monitor you via the camera or microphone on your device.
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