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| | | Your Google Data Is Getting the Auto-Delete Tool It Always Needed | | Fast Company | While Google has spent years insisting that users are in control of their privacy, it’s never given users a way to wipe old data automatically. If you wanted to keep Google from building up a lifetime of personal information without opting out of personalized features entirely, you had to remind yourself to delete the data on your own. That’s about to change. | | Product Tip: Automatically Secure Lost or Stolen Devices | | BetterCloud Monitor | Lost or stolen devices are a headache. But by leveraging BetterCloud's native connectors and the Platform API, you can automatically secure lost devices and safeguard sensitive data. | | Mystery Data Breach Reportedly Exposes 80 Million Names, Addresses, and Income Info in U.S. | | PCWorld | Data breaches are almost always tied to a site, service, or subscription, which gives you some control over your fate: You can change your password, monitor any suspicious activity, or delete your account. But a new reported breach has seemingly exposed the personal information of some 80 million U.S. households—and no one seems to know who’s to blame. | | What a Pain in the Azzz-ure: Microsoft Azure, SharePoint, Etc. Knocked Offline by DNS Blunder | | The Register | Last week Microsoft's Azure cloud was up and down globally due to a DNS configuration mishap. The platform-wide outage knackered all sorts of Redmond-hosted systems around the world, from Azure SQL databases and App Services to multi-factor authentication, Microsoft 365 and Teams, Dynamics, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive. |
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| | | SaaS Updates Summary: April 29 – May 3 | | BetterCloud Monitor | Lots of SaaS updates last week: The “Team Drives” feature of Google Drive will be renamed to “shared drives,” Microsoft Office rolls out new privacy controls, and more. |
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