Trust

Vrbo is blocking new Washington, DC reservations during inauguration week

Vrbo has changed its stance on people making reservations in the Washington, DC area during the week of the inauguration. The company announced on January 19th, the day before the event, that it will block any new reservations through Friday, January 22nd. Vrbo previously stated it was evaluating new bookings and that it would “take… Read more

“Hitman 3” alluded to: Death suits him well

Bald man and master assassin agent 47 is a real Methuselah of the video game scene. For around 20 years, corpses pave its way through the High society of gangsters and agents. Since 2016 there is agent 47 in reboot mode: With “Hitman 3” the World of Assassination trilogy is now completed, the was only… Read more

Citizen Score: China's social credit system no longer on target

China’s social credit system, which was officially announced seven years ago, including a citizen rating in the form of a “Citizen Score”, has been delayed. According to the plan of the central government in Beijing, the “Schufa on anabolic steroids”, which in the West is an essential piece of the puzzle in the Chinese surveillance… Read more

User loss: Facebook postpones changes to terms and conditions on WhatsApp

After the WhatsApp alternatives such as Signal or Telegram reported a massive increase in users in the past few days, Facebook is now also reacting and moving the introduction of the new terms and conditions for the time being. As the company announced, the new data protection regulations only apply from 15. May 2021. Originally,… Read more

Singapore: Abuse of Trust in Corona Contact Tracking

In Singapore, the pandemic response has been largely technology-based – two systems to be precise. The first is a QR code that became ubiquitous across the country in April and May as part of the “SafeEntry” contact tracking system. SafeEntry meant that anyone who wants to enter a public place – restaurants, shops, malls –… Read more

WhatsApp to delay new privacy policy amid mass confusion about Facebook data sharing

WhatsApp on Friday announced a three-month delay of a new privacy policy originally slated to go into effect on February 8th following widespread confusion over whether the new policy would mandate data sharing with Facebook. The update does not in fact affect data sharing with Facebook with regard to user chats or other profile information;… Read more

heise + | Knowledge base and paperless office: Second memory Devonthink 3

Anyone who collects information from many sources on a daily basis needs a tool to manage it. The Devonthink tool for macOS can do that – we’ll show you how. (Image: Wax, stock.adobe.com; Howard Bouchevereau, unsplash.com; Montage: Mac & i) Knowledge base and paperless office: Devonthink 3 second memory The Devonthink databases Import or index… Read more

Covalent chooses the IBM blockchain to certify the sustainability of its products

Covalent, a company operating in the sector of fashion, will trace the entire supply chain of its products through the IBM blockchain to measure the impact on the environment in the various production phases by Alberto Falchi published on 15 January 2021 , at 14: 04 in the Innovation channel blockchain IBM Covalent is a… Read more

QuoVadis: HTTPS error due to a revoked certificate

An insufficiently communicated certificate change obviously leads to problems. Heise Security is currently receiving a lot of messages about errors when establishing HTTPS / TLS connections. The cause is apparently a revoked intermediate certificate from QuoVadis Intermediate CA. The following certificate is affected: QuoVadis Global SSL ICA G3 Obviously (on the server?) This must be… Read more

Fitbit has become part of Google. The finalization of the acquisition raises a series of questions about the data of users of the company's services

The US anti-trust investigation into the Google acquisition of Fitbit is ongoing, but a $ 2.1 billion transfer has been announced. The Mountain View giant says DOJ verification time has expired and the firm’s actions are legal. Nevertheless, the concern will still be in contact with the institution and will provide it with all the… Read more

Distributed database: Cockroach Labs secures funding for further growth

Cockroach Labs, provider of the distributed, cloud-native SQL database CockroachDB, was able to double both the number of its customers and sales in the past year, as the company announced in a blog post without disclosing any specific financial data. In order to be able to continue financing the growth, however, Cockroach Labs secured itself… Read more

CD Projekt Reveals Its Cyberpunk 2077 Roadmap For 2021

Home News (Image credit: CD Projekt Red) It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything on CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077, much less from the company. Today that changed as the co-founder of the CD Projekt Red, Marcin Iwiński, has released a short video on what has transpired since its release and what the company… Read more

Digital ROG event: ASUS improves its notebooks in detail

In these minutes, ASUS is broadcasting its ROG live stream to the digital CES 2021 out. Above all, new gamer notebooks are expected, which with a view to the new processors from AMD and Intel, but also to the graphics chips of the GeForce RTX – 30 – family should be updated. In the run-up… Read more

WhatsApp clarifies it’s not giving all your data to Facebook after surge in Signal and Telegram users

WhatsApp has published a new FAQ page to its website outlining its stances on user privacy in response to widespread backlash over an upcoming privacy policy update. The core issue relates to WhatsApp’s data-sharing procedures with Facebook, with many users concerned an updated privacy policy going into effect on February 8th will mandate sharing of… Read more

Prosumer network supplier Ubiquiti had a data leak

Ubiquiti, manufacturer of prosumer network hardware (and also monitoring systems and other products connected to the network), has informed its users that there may have been a data leak and account data The data could have flowed from an external cloud provider where unauthorized access took place. It cannot be determined with certainty whether data… Read more