You would think that in light of all of the negative publicity that Facebook has had, it would reign in some of it’s badder practices, but maybe they are just daring Congress to regulate them. Facebook created a VPN product called Onavo Protect. The public claim was that it was designed to protect your traffic, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Motherboard was able to buy real time location data from a broker for a T-Mobile phone for $300. This is not illegal. The food chain for location data is very complicated. In this case, T-Mobile sold the data to data aggregator Zumigo. Zumigo sold it to Microbilt. Microbilt sold it to a bounty hunter. Who […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Worried about the NSA capturing all that metadata about you? That is the stuff about you that the government says it can collect without a warrant (and courtesy of the Patriot Act) because you send it unencrypted over the Internet and so you have no expectation of privacy. A big part of the data (besides […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]From a sales and branding perspective, the last thing that smart home device manufacturers (think Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod and a raft of other) want you to worry about is whether the Feds are snarfing up your data. We do know of a few highly publicized cases like asking for smart water heater […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A security researcher has found, he thinks, years worth of customer data available on Craigslist. Not exactly the dark web. The servers were from bankrupt computer store chain NCIX. The seller had, supposedly, hundreds of servers that were in storage. The storage company owner was selling the servers after NCIX did not pay their storage […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I have reported before, car manufacturers do not seem to care about whether the last owner still controls that used car that you just bought. While the issue of previous owners still having the ability to locate, unlock and even remote start some cars, car makers don’t seem to be doing anything about it […]
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