Collaborate Disseminate
Auto-delete will hopefully please those of us who haven’t already turned off location history altogether (for very good reason). Continue reading Google rolling out auto-delete for your location and activity history
Newly revealed policies show border agents can search devices for pretty much any reason, including if some other agency asked them to. Continue reading DHS policies allow unlimited, warrantless device search
The data was published after “Boris Bullet-Dodger” failed to get Citycomp to cough up. Continue reading Extortionists leak data of huge firms after IT provider refuses to pay
The flaw makes it possible to overwrite the devices’ programming and insert an algorithm that turns them into artificial pancreases. Continue reading Diabetics are hunting down obsolete insulin pumps with a security flaw
Put on your detective hat – the researchers who found it say it’s full of people’s data, but not who it belongs to. Continue reading Mystery database exposes data on 80 million US households
For years, Facebook asked some new users for email passwords, then grabbed their contacts without consent (or any way to stop the process). Continue reading Facebook under investigation for harvesting 1.5m users’ contact lists
She must have been star-struck, she said, after the fraudster hid behind the Fast & Furious star’s photo and reached out from a fan page. Continue reading Man posing as Hollywood superstar scams woman out of a ‘fortune’
It’s one of the first location data privacy cases to grapple with the warrant and surveillance implications of the Carpenter decision. Continue reading Cops need warrant for both location history and phone pinging, says judge
Researchers have found that hackers are exploiting vulnerable piracy streaming devices to steal credit card data or rope them into botnets. Continue reading Piracy streaming apps are stuffed with malware
And just who, exactly, is going to pay for new passports if it’s necessary? Danish police are chatting with Kube Data about that. Continue reading Fingerprint glitch in passports swapped left and right hands