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Active metadata for your business value

Collibra

Managing metadata is even harder. So why do I need to care about metadata? What is the value of metadata? Active metadata will help you answer this question. Curious about what active metadata is and how it can help. What is active metadata? Traditional metadata is like a static description of your data.

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Android Pie introduces important security and privacy enhancements

Security Affairs

Google experts worked on OS hardening and the implementation of anti-exploitation mechanisms with a great attention to the user privacy. The tech giant updated the File-Based Encryption implementing the support for external storage media, it also included the metadata encryption with hardware support. ” concluded Google.

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News alert: Seventh Sense unveils a revolutionary privacy solution — face-based PKI and ‘eID’

The Last Watchdog

10, 2024, CyberNewsWire — Seventh Sense , a pioneer in advanced cybersecurity solutions, announces the launch of SenseCrypt , a revolutionary new platform that sets a new standard in secure, privacy-preserving identity verification. Singapore, Sept.

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GUEST ESSAY: Privacy risks introduced by the ‘metaverse’ — and how to combat them

The Last Watchdog

As digital technologies become more immersive and tightly integrated with our daily lives, so too do the corresponding intrusive attacks on user privacy. But until recently, the VR privacy threat has remained entirely theoretical. Berkeley RDI is a preeminent source of open-access metaverse privacy research. The result: a 94.6

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NSA buys internet browsing records from data brokers without a warrant

Security Affairs

Metadata on browsing activity, which includes information about the websites visited, timestamps, and duration of visits, can be abused for surveillance in several ways, privacy advocated warn. Senator pointed out that according to a recent FTC order, data brokers cannot sell Americans’ data without informed consent.

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Law Enforcement Access to Chat Data and Metadata

Schneier on Security

A January 2021 FBI document outlines what types of data and metadata can be lawfully obtained by the FBI from messaging apps. Lots of apps leak all sorts of metadata: iMessage and WhatsApp seem to be the worst. Signal protects the most metadata. Rolling Stone broke the story and it’s been written about elsewhere.

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Facebook Messenger Adds Safety Alerts?Even in Encrypted Chats

WIRED Threat Level

By using metadata instead of content to spot suspicious behavior, the social network can keep privacy intact.