Collaborate Disseminate
The SEC has blocked third-party messaging apps and texts from employees’ work phones, “bringing its own practices closer to the standards it’s enforcing for the industry,” reports Bloomberg. From the report: The SEC’s decision to block disappearing-mes… Continue reading SEC Targets Its Own Staff’s Texting, Nixes WhatsApp On Work Phones
Jessica Lyons reports via The Register: The FCC appears to finally be stepping up efforts to secure decades-old flaws in American telephone networks that are allegedly being used by foreign governments and surveillance outfits to remotely spy on and mo… Continue reading Feds Finally Decide To Do Something About Years-Old SS7 Spy Holes In Phone Networks
A Linux Foundation subsidiary has developed a free and open-source 3D game engine distributed under the Apache license. And last week the Open 3D Foundation announced “a big step forward, showcasing the power of open-source technologies in giving gamer… Continue reading Major Mobile NFT Shooter Game ‘MadWorld’ Uses Linux Foundation Subsidiary’s Game Engine
America’s Department of Homeland Security “is expected to stop buying access to data showing the movement of phones,” reports the U.S. news site NOTUS.
They call the purchasers “a controversial practice that has allowed it to warrantlessly track hund… Continue reading America’s DHS Is Expected to Stop Buying Access to Your Phone Movements
“The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development,” argues Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and business school ethics professor, saying that since the early 2010s, “something went suddenly and horribly wrong for adolesc… Continue reading Social Psychologist Urges ‘End the Phone-Based Childhood Now’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The average toddler is missing out on hearing more than 1,000 words spoken by an adult each day due to screen time, setting back their language skills, a first-of-its kind study has found. The rese… Continue reading Screen Time Robs Average Toddler of Hearing 1,000 Words Spoken By Adult a Day, Study Finds
According to the Washington Post (paywalled), the FBI is using mobile push notification data to unmask people suspected of serious crimes, such as pedophilia, terrorism, and murder. Gizmodo reports: The Post did a little digging into court records and … Continue reading The FBI Is Using Push Notifications To Catch Sexual Predators
Almost 3 years after launching the first OnePlus Watch, the Chinese smartphone company is launching a successor — this time powered by Wear OS 4. Utilizing a “hybrid interface,” the OnePlus Watch 2 is able to offer 100 hours of battery life, or just o… Continue reading OnePlus Watch 2 Launches With Wear OS 4, 100-Hour Battery
Jess Weatherbed reports via The Verge: Bullitt Group, the UK-based smartphone manufacturer behind the rugged handsets of Cat, Land Rover, and Motorola, has seemingly shut down. On Monday, Mobile World Live spotted several Bullitt Group employees on Lin… Continue reading Key Rugged Phone Manufacturer Shuts Down
“Would you pay $15 a month so Android doesn’t track you and send all of that data back to Google?” asks Stuff South Africa:
A new Swiss-based privacy company thinks $15 is a fair fee for that peace of mind. “A person’s data is the original digital cur… Continue reading Could Apostrophy OS Be the Future of Cellphone Privacy?