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It’s not you: App privacy settings really can be complicated. Drazen Zigic/iStock via Getty Images

August 16, 2024

Complicated app settings are a threat to user privacy

Knowing you should set your apps’ privacy permissions might not be enough to protect you. A cybersecurity expert explains how complicated privacy settings can trip you up.

Remote workers lack the same institutional cyber protection as their in-office colleagues. Maskot/Getty Images

September 26, 2023

Remote workers are more aware of cybersecurity risks than in‑office employees: new study

Joseph K. Nwankpa, Miami University and Pratim Milton Datta, Kent State University

A survey of remote and office workers found that people working from home were more likely to take steps to protect themselves against cybersecurity threats.

A refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo registers his fingerprints on a biometric machine in Uganda in 2022. Badru Katumba/AFP via Getty Images

July 18, 2023

Registering refugees using personal information has become the norm – but cybersecurity breaches pose risks to people giving sensitive biometric data

Joseph K. Nwankpa, Miami University

Capturing biometric data helps UN agencies and other groups avoid the risk of fraud and increase efficiency. But the practice is complicated and has created security risks for vulnerable groups.

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