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In the past couple of months, Ezra Miller has been in the news with arrests and other reports of disruptive behavior and assault. The most recent issues for the star of the upcoming DC movie The Flash have come from their friendship with teenager Tokata Iron Eyes, which has resulted in Iron Eyes’ parents filing a protective order in response to alleged grooming and abuse from Miller. In the latest update to this ongoing story, the problem seems to be that nobody can seem to locate Ezra Miller in order to serve said…

A new study from the University of Oxford revealed that patients taking statins had reduced negative emotional bias.Statins have been linked with reduced negative emotional biasWith 17.3 million adult Americans affected, depression is one of the most prevalent mental disorders in the country. A gloomy or depressed mood that lasts for two weeks or more is considered major depression.Depression is distinct from common mood swings and brief emotional reactions to problems in daily life. Depression may develop into a serious…

Image: Getty/MoMo ProductionsMozilla has rolled out a privacy protection it calls "Total Cookie Protection" as the default for the browser on Windows, Mac and Linux. The idea behind Total Cookie Protection is that cookies remain limited to the site from which they were added to a browser. Mozilla's analogy for the functionality of Total Cookie Protection is a "cookie jar", which is assigned exclusively to the site that dropped the cookie file in the browser. No other site can access that assigned cookie jar, fencing…

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Tuesday offered investors a list of stocks he believes will help investors' portfolios withstand the geopolitical and economic issues currently roiling the stock market."When the market comes down so far, so fast, you can find genuinely good buying opportunities," the "Mad Money" host said."You've got to be selective because the market remains horrific. That means picking at the kind of defensive stocks that can hold up just fine even with inflation and the very real possibility of a Fed-mandated…

Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) will gain independence from the presidency. The data protection body was elevated to the special authority status under a provisional measure published today.According to the text, ANPD will be transformed into an autarchy of a special nature while still maintaining the organizational structure and competences of the law that created it in 2018. The provisional measure notes that, considering the scope of the powers of the authority, which oversees both the public and…

Thank you for joining us on "The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity." Increasingly, countries across the globe are enforcing data protection laws. Organizations can stay ahead of new mandates by implementing data privacy norms. Companies must view customers as allies when protecting their privacy and gain their brand loyalty. Click here to continue. Thank you for joining us on "The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity." Increasingly, countries across the globe are enforcing data protection laws.…

Mozilla on Tuesday announced that it is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default for all Firefox users to restrict companies to track your browsing patterns from one site to another. The security feature, which is essentially meant to protect users from cross-site tracking, was until now available only in Private Browsing. Mozilla claimed that by making Total Cookie Protection by default, it has made Firefox the most private and secure major browser available across Windows and Mac.Marketers often use cross-site…

In 2020, Google registered a record 2 million phishing websites. That worked out to a nearly 20% increase from the year before, with the company detecting an average of 46,000 new phishing websites every week. Since then, phishing has been a big issue when online. The best way to protect yourself from viruses and malware is to steer clear of phishy looking sites and not respond to emails from shahs asking you to transfer funds to them. However, with such a proliferation of scams out there, it’s hard to keep your…

"I'm going to change the system from within," a university housemate said proudly as she went off to law school. A couple of years later, she was more sanguine: "The pressure on you to conform is so strong that you give in."   I think of her every time a privacy advocate friend takes a job with a huge data-guzzling firm, always ardently believing their hiring proves that their new employer really cares about privacy. From there, either they become assimilated into defending practices they used to excoriate, or they…

The Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB) says it is investigating Wema Bank PLC and KC Gaming Networks(Bet Naija), for alleged breach of customers’ data privacy. The bank is accused of opening accounts for customers without their request or authorisation, while KC Gaming is probed over external attacks on its data. “At this stage, the objectives of these investigations as directed by the National Commissioner of the Bureau, Vincent Olatunji, are to determine the impact of the breaches on…