Collaborate Disseminate
Exploit of the Month or How Using Smartphones In Speakerphone-Mode Descimates Your Privacy: Spearphone (PDF) (by way of the obviously superlative engineering of S. Abhishek Anand, Chen Wang, Jian Liu, Nitesh Saxena and Yingying Chen), the speech priva… Continue reading Spearphone
Bad Behaviors should not be tolerated… Behold, and examine, if you will, the data exfiltrated (in this case, the inventory of extensions installed in your broweser, and data contained therein) by Linkedin (Nasdaq: LNKD) when the user authenticates … Continue reading LinkedIn’s Bad Behaviors, The Data Exfiltration Gambit
Today’s Must Read comes to us via Steve Melendez, reporting for Fast Company, with an outstanding piece on Robotic Surveillance accompanied by an equally tremendous report and posting via the ACLU on the same topic. Read both posts, and the report fro… Continue reading Robotic Surveillance, Dawn of
News, originally brought to my attention by the eponymous [John Gruber], with further details from Mikael Thalen, writing at The Daily Dot, of Facebookery at it’s finest:
“A lawyer for Facebook argued in court Wednesday that the social media siteR… Continue reading Facebookery: “There Is No Invasion Of Privacy At All, Because There Is No Privacy.”
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
via Slate author April Glaser, comes word of the coming vote by the Commisionsers of the City and County of San Francisco targeting the curtailment and prohibition of human facial computational recognition systems and surveillance (including many oth… Continue reading Facial Recognition Ban Moves To City and County of San Francisco Commissioner Vote On May 14th
Read The Telegraph’s Robin Pagnamenta’s superbly-written piece on TikTok – how the company poses an ostensibly larger and insidious vectored privacy threat as compared to the measly annoyance propagated by Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB); only with a Peopl… Continue reading TikTok , Privacy’s Greatest Enemy?
In – perhaps – the singularly snarky and yet fundamentally true privacy piece posted targeting privacy invading smart devices on El Reg in the past couple of weeks, comes reporter Alistair Dabbs’ jaundiced (and highly entertaining) yet focused, tech-a… Continue reading Sub-Vocalization Aware Smart Speakers: Little Brother Has Arrived
Hyperlink Auditing disabled in the Brave browser version 73.0.62.51
Well crafted piece by Lawrence Abrams, detailing the URL ‘Ping’ Tracking (aka Hyper-Text Protocol Auditing), and the consequences to users within many browser deployments. If you find… Continue reading URL “Ping” Tracking, The Exponential Evil of Tracking
via the Comic Noggins of Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech®
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