Tag: Abine
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Blur 8: Better Payments, Passwords, and Privacy
Abine Blog – 3.21.19 (3.20.19) We’re proud to release Blur 8 – for better “Passwords, Payments, & Privacy.” We’ve built on our existing online privacy services to make it easier for you to stay in control of your personal information. Read more: Blur 8: Better Payments, Passwords, and Privacy
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Data Privacy Day 2019: Increasing Threats to Online Privacy
Abine Blog – 1.30.19 (1.28.19) In the past year, internet users started realizing the vast amount of data we’ve given away to companies, and how they used it in ways we wouldn’t have imagined. Read more: Data Privacy Day 2019: Increasing Threats to Online Privacy
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Biggest Data Breach in History: Collection #1
Abine Blog – 1.23.19 (1.18.19) In mid-December, over 770 million email addresses and passwords were posted to a popular hacking forum. At 87 GB of data, it is the largest collection of breached data in history. You can stay safe from this and other breaches by using unique, randomly-generated passwords from Blur. Read more: Biggest Data…
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Google Tracking Mastercard Purchases
Abine Blog – 9.18.18 (9.14.18) For the past year, Google and Mastercard had a “secret deal” allowing Google tracking of spending habits of two billion Mastercard card-holders. Using Blur can protect you from tracking, online and off. Read more: Google Tracking Mastercard Purchases
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GDPR is Good. Blur is Better.
Abine Blog – 6.21.18 (6.19.18) The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is meant to give power over personal data back to the individual whose data is being held. It has been implemented in all European countries, codifies several rights for European citizens over data holding and use, and applies to any ‘data controller’ holding…
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Mugshots.com Owners End up with their own Mugshots Online: (or, When Extortion of Privacy Backfires)
Abine Blog – 5.21.18 For years, websites like Mugshots.com, Mugshotsonline.us, and Jailbase.com have been profiting off of the humiliation of individuals who have had a run-in with the law. Last week, in one of the more comical stories in online privacy, two alleged owners of Mugshots.com finally got what was coming to them – they’ve…