Collaborate Disseminate
Wearables continue to get smaller, cheaper, and more capable, and the latest to enter the fray is the Wyze Band. For a mere US$25 you get just about everything you could want from a compact fitness tracker.Continue ReadingCategory: Wearables, Technolog… Continue reading Wyze Band tracks your fitness and controls your smart home
Brave is testing a new defence against fingerprinting: confusing algorithms by randomising some of the data they collect. Continue reading Brave browser to block web fingerprinting with randomisation
You may remember the smart jacket that Google and Levi’s launched under the Project Jacquard umbrella – an initiative to add extra smarts to clothing. Now there’s a new Jacquard product on sale in the form of smart insoles developed with Adidas.Continu… Continue reading Google and Adidas launch smart insoles for tracking your soccer skills
The man became a suspect because location data from his Android phone was swept up in a surveillance dragnet called a geofence warrant. Continue reading Google data puts innocent man at the scene of a crime
I remember hearing or seeing a documentary or something a “long” time ago, likely in the early 2000s, about how a lot of Americans (USAians) refused to show an “id” even when voting, where it might possibly be justified to demand some form… Continue reading How did (in particular) Americans just go along with the concept of having to own and show "photo id" everywhere? [closed]
I recently realized that some apps were able to “link” my identity to Facebook. I checked my off facebook activity and could see some apps that I’ve never given my email.
Investigating further, I believe it boils down to a setting that’s … Continue reading Is Apple’s default Privacy settings GDPR compliant? [migrated]
Last month, engineers at Google published a very curious privacy bug in Apple’s Safari web browser. Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention, a feature designed to reduce user tracking, has vulnerabilities that themselves allow user tracking. Some detai… Continue reading Apple’s Tracking-Prevention Feature in Safari has a Privacy Bug
Last month, engineers at Google published a very curious privacy bug in Apple’s Safari web browser. Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention, a feature designed to reduce user tracking, has vulnerabilities that themselves allow user tracking. Some details: ITP detects and blocks tracking on the web. When you visit a few websites that happen to load the same third-party resource, ITP detects… Continue reading Apple’s Tracking-Prevention Feature in Safari has a Privacy Bug
Google’s Super Bowl ad featured an elderly man’s voice as he asked Google Assistant to help him remember details about his late wife. Continue reading Google’s Super Bowl ad will make you cry. Or wince.
can connecting to wifi reveal my cellular identity ?
So what I mean is say hypothetically the powers that be wanted to tap your cellular phone and your home wifi (having the isp monitor all data).
And you buy a new phone with a new simca… Continue reading Does connecting your phone to wifi make it trackable by cellular connection?