Collaborate Disseminate
Woo Hoo! December’s Feet of Clay Award has been summarily bestowed upon those nearly perfect examples of corporate scumbaggery: Verizon/AOL! Congratulations (and a $4.95 Million Fine) are in order targeting the sellers of our children’s innocence! Rea… Continue reading December’s Feet of Clay Award : Verizon/AOL Is Selling Ours Kids Personal Data
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?
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Turns out, that in this case, Heaven’s got nothing to do with it…
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via Cyrus Farivar, plying his trade at ArsTechnica, regales us with the sorry tale of Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) nearly continuous falsehoods surrounding the data it retains. In this case, your location data. This issue has triggered a lawsuit that ma… Continue reading What Kind of Googlery Is This, Location History Suit Antics
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
via the Security Mindset of Robert M. Lee and Illustration talents of Jeff Hass at Little Bobby Comics
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Through Simon Sharwood, writing at El Reg, we learn of newly-minted egregious modifications of Microsoft Corporation’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) EULA and Service Agreements. In which the company will begin terminating accounts that create Office 365 documents (… Continue reading Microsoft Begins Censoring Outlook, Office 365, Et Cetera: Will Terminate Offending Accounts