Collaborate Disseminate
via Andy Greenberg, comes a particularly troubling piece, written for Wired, in which, Mr. Greenberg details the litany of ineptitude by Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) in securing their code running the company’s 787 airframe. Deeply troubling is the opera… Continue reading Boeing – Say It Ain’t So…
News of recently revealed and egregious tracking behaviors at Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG); specifically Google is using your Gmails account to track your purchases. Our suggestions is to immediately remove any financial transaction related messaging fr… Continue reading Google Utilizing Consumer Gmail Accounts to Track Purchases, Financial Transactions
Why are both Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) still permitting clearly ill-conceived user tracking via applications marketed and sold on each company’s customer-facing app stores? Surely your privacy and freedom means more to y… Continue reading The Tracking of America: Why Are You Letting It Happen?
via the eponymous Patently Apple. comes astounding news of the latest disingenuous attempt at flawed privacy policy creation, this time by the clearly amoral Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC). Remember the 1995-and-onwards vulnerabilities monikered “Me… Continue reading November’s Feet of Clay Award: Intel Corporation
This situation – the failure of a highly touted Amazon Corporation (NasdaqGS: AMZN) machine learning/psuedo-artificial-intelligence API/Database construct known as ‘Amazon Rekognition’ – is a Prime example of large-scale, resilient corporate hubris…. Continue reading Amazon, The Rekognition Fail
via The Outline author Paris Martineau, comes this tale of opt-in/opt-out, GlaxoSmithKline 23andMe. and of course, The Goods – , your DNA. Which results in a nagging question: Why would I (or you for that matter), agree to hand over my uniquely identi… Continue reading Bye-Bye, DNA – Hello GSK (and others)
via Cyrus Farivar, writing at Ars Technica, comes evidence of skullduggery at Zuckerberg’s Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB), this time, in the guise of failing to answer Senatorial queries, simply by ignoring such impudence.
*Senators – this is why the use … Continue reading Facebookery: Playtime in Palo Alto
Well, this time its not a RAM issue, it’s much worse…
via Martin Brinkmann, writing at Ghacks, tells us of the shameful track record of Google Inc. aka Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) in policing the company’s own browser (Google Chrome) add-on store; … Continue reading Google’s Litany of Chrome Fail: Malicious Extensions Burgeon Out of Control