A European security research group tested a group of 2,000 apps from the Play Store and found they connected to 250,000 different URLs from 2,000 different domains. They found one app in the sample, Music Volume Eq, an app designed to control volume, connects to almost 2,000 distinct URLs. The study said that about 10 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AT&T rolled out its Google Fiber competitor (see article) in the Kansas City, Mo. area (Leawood, Lenexa, Olathe, and Overland Park, Kan. ) for the same price that Google charges – $70 a month. However, if you would prefer that AT&T not track the web pages you visit, the time you spend at each, the links […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]LinkedIn has a service called a LinkedIn Reference Search that allows someone to search for people who worked at the same companies that you did at the same time you did. While LI does not give employers direct access to those people who worked with you, they do “recommend” that prospective employers use the LinkedIn […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As reported in the New York Times, Justine Sacco became an instantaneous celebrity when she sent out a Tweet prior to boarding a flight to South Africa from JFK. Social media can be both powerful and cruel. In this case, it changed Justine’s life. The Tweet, along with one of the many photos of her, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]An upstate NY State woman sued the DEA for creating a fake Facebook profile of her, using pictures of her young son and niece as well as suggestive pictures of her to try and lure drug dealers (see link and picture below). Authorities had taken her phone after she was arrested for her role in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have written before about Verizon (and AT&T) supercookies (see here and here, among others). Briefly, supercookies are tracking devices that Verizon adds to your web traffic from your phone after the traffic leaves your phone but before it reaches the intended web site. Verizon uses this traffic to figure out what sites you visit […]
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