All news with #privacy engineering tag

🔒 In this episode of Unlocked 403, host Becks and ESET Global Security Advisor Jake Moore examine how everyday online activity becomes a marketable commodity. They explain how social media, apps and websites harvest, analyze and monetize both first- and third-party data, and why metadata often reveals more than expected. The conversation highlights risks for children and the long-term consequences of pervasive collection. Jake shares practical tips for tightening app privacy settings, limiting permissions and embracing data minimization to better protect personal information.

🔓 UpGuard’s Cyber Risk Team discovered a publicly accessible Amazon S3 bucket belonging to Deep Root Analytics that contained roughly 1.1 TB of voter-related data tied to an estimated 198 million U.S. voters. The exposed files referenced Republican contractors TargetPoint Consulting and Data Trust and included names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, voter registration details, and billions of modeled attributes used for political microtargeting. After notification and federal involvement, the bucket was secured and public access was removed.

🛡️ Google has open sourced its Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries to accelerate privacy-preserving digital ID and age-assurance solutions. Developed with Sparkasse, the release enables people to prove attributes (for example, that they are over 18) without sharing any other personal data. By making a performant ZKP codebase available, Google aims to help developers, researchers, businesses, and governments integrate privacy-first flows, including use cases for the European EUDI Wallet.

🔐 Google and Germany’s Sparkasse announced a wallet-based EU age assurance service that lets customers prove age online without sharing personal data. Using the Credential Manager API, Google Wallet and zero-knowledge cryptography, Sparkasse will issue trusted credentials across its network of 343 regional savings banks serving 50 million customers. Integration with Android and Chrome enables one-click age checks for apps and sites and will roll out in the coming months.