Apps and websites are always wanting more, aren’t they? More data, more privileges, more control. As a result, you’ll often get a flurry of permissions or cookie pop-ups whenever you open up an app or ...

Windows 11 Experimental Build 26340.9212 hints at per-app privacy controls for Win32 programs, including camera, microphone, ...

Every time you install an application on Windows, you agree to give it permission to interact with certain parts of your system. Video calling apps are going to want to access your webcam, for example ...

Today, smartphones are no longer just tools for making calls or sending messages. They store a wealth of sensitive data, ...

Every time we visit a website, we get a pop-up asking for our permission to improve our browsing experience, and most of the time we very leniently give the permission. We don’t really care that we ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

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Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Protect your privacy by keeping those permissions to a minimum. Protect your privacy by keeping those permissions ...

How often do you assess the risk of browser extensions and their permissions? There are a myriad of browser extensions that can be installed in today’s modern web browsers. While browser extensions ...

I'm relatively new to Windows server management. I'm trying to setup folder redirection with GPO. The file server that's getting redirected is in a LXD fedora container. To me this indicates a problem ...