Security
Google Assistant Privacy Changes and What It Could Mean for Alexa
If you haven’t heard, your phone is listening to you. Both Google and Apple were using data collection and recording well before the average user was aware. This was particularly evident for Apple who hired contract workers to listen in and record user conversations...
Stirred, Not Shaken: New Tools to Defeat Robocallers
Recently, I wrote a post regarding the plague of robocalls that has gotten worse in recent years and how you can filter out robocalls on an iPhone using the CiraSync GAL sync feature. However, as anyone who has tried to fight the plague of robocalls knows, a single...
Mandatory Password Updates Hurts User Security: Microsoft Password Policy Change
Microsoft recently unveiled a new policy update that’s caught many users by surprise: They have decided to do away with the time-honored tradition of required, regular, password resets. Sometime during May, 2019, Microsoft revealed that it is eliminating the expiring...
CiraSync Compliance with GDPR
There are certain specific requirements for companies, such as Cira Apps Ltd., which is classified as a Data Processor—an entity that stores or transforms data on your behalf. It processes data according to the synchronization rules that a customer specifies. For...
GDPR Poised to Send 20,000 Small Businesses to Extinction
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) was designed with good intentions . . . the result may leave you thinking otherwise. Due to an overzealous drive to encourage compliance, combined with little to no analysis on the financial impact the law could have,...
