Collaborate Disseminate
Security experts found that the devices – manufactured in China, and rebadged by multiple companies around the world – are vulnerable to a simple hack that could allow a hacker to track their location, and even secretly listen in via the mi… Continue reading Spying on personal alarms and GPS trackers is as simple as sending an SMS
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
Google has added a control option to users’ accounts that will allow them to instruct the company to auto-delete their location history, browsing and search data once a certain length of time has passed. “Choose a time limit for how long yo… Continue reading Google offers auto-delete option for location, web tracking history
The US Congress has issued an open letter asking Google CEO Sundar Pichai to explain in detail why his company keeps a database of the precise location information of hundreds of millions of consumers. Sensorvault, as it is referred to internally, is a… Continue reading Congress asks Google to explain why it tracks users’ ‘whole pattern of life’
The most successful companies of our time are those who’ve mastered user data – collecting it, analyzing it and profiting from it – typically at the expense of user privacy. The Internet of things (IoT) has given tech companies, advertisers, data broke… Continue reading The surveillance economy has set its sights on smartphone sensors
More than 238,000 individuals users have had their family’s real-time location exposed for weeks on end after an app developer left sensitive data exposed on the internet, without a password.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Popular family tracking app exposed real-time location data onto the internet – no password required
Developers will have a new option to for Android apps to track location only when in use. Continue reading Google Gives Users More Choice with Location-Tracking Apps
Google has confirmed that improved control over location tracking is one of several new privacy features in the next version of its mobile OS, Android Q. Continue reading Will the next version of Android get location privacy right?
Faced with diminishing returns from ransomware and cryptojacking, cybercriminals are doubling down on alternative methods, such as formjacking, to make money according to Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), Volume 24. Symantec’s IS… Continue reading Formjacking is the new get rich quick scheme for cybercriminals
The Chairman’s staff said the selling of location data is not a ‘threat to the safety of human life or property that the FCC will address during the Trump shutdown.’ Continue reading Ajit Pai Refuses to Brief Congress About Why Bounty Hunters Can Buy Cell Phone Location Data