According to USA Today and the NY Times, Verizon has announced that it will allow users to opt out of their super-cookie program “soon”. You may remember that both Verizon and AT&T were caught adding a unique tracking identifier into all web page requests last year as customers were using programs such as ad blocker […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Justice Department continues to push for the ability to bypass encryption (see here). Leslie Caldwell, one of the assistant AGs said that the DoJ is very concerned that Apple and Google have turned on encryption by default. I guess that must point to the fact that if people have to do something to turn […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The news is reporting that a nanny in Houston said that she heard voices coming from the baby monitor while she was changing her baby’s diaper last week. Apparently, someone was watching them and talking to them over the built in speaker in the baby monitor. That speaker is designed so that the parents, using […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]To paraphrase an old public service announcement (It’s 10 P.M. – Do you know where your kids are?), you grant way too many online permissions and likely do not keep track of them and revoke them. To use today’s answer – We have an app for that. Seriously. MyPermissions.org is a combination of a web […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]PC World and others are reporting that Turn, the advertising group that I wrote about a few days ago, will stop using Verizon’s unique identifier to target advertising to Verizon customers in early February. The practice, which is completely legal, lets Turn track every web page a Verizon customer visits, even if they delete their […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have written before about law enforcement’s creative use of technology to capture bad guys. The prior article talked about putting cameras on utility poles and intercepting cell phone traffic, both without a warrant. Today’s story, in USA Today, talks about the FBI, Marshall Service and U.S. Marshal’s use of a type of radar that […]
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