Bill Mann

Google is promoting a new standard for online privacy called Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC). While most everyone outside of the online advertising industry favors getting rid of third-party cookies, most everyone outside of Google is also opposed to FLoC. In this report, we’ll examine how FLoC works and why so many people and organizations …

Most people love the holiday season. That includes cybercriminals, who see it as an ideal time to make money. Thanks to the pandemic, people are doing more of their holiday activities online. Hackers, scammers, and other online criminals expect to make a killing — but we don’t have to make things easy for them. There’s …