If You Thought the FTC Was Toothless Before, Just Wait I always complained that the FTC’s penalties were way too meek. Now I understand why, but it has just gotten MUCH worse. 99.99% of the blame goes to Congress. Initially, the FTC could not bring lawsuits against businesses at all. All they could do was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Not a Good Week for Social Media Privacy After the January 6th attack on the US Capitol, we saw terabytes of conversations and videos and profiles from the alt-right Twitter clone Parler posted online. Last week we saw 500+ million Facebook profiles for sale on the dark web (Facebook says this isn’t a breach) and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China Bans Military and Government from using Teslas – Due to ‘Spying’ The WSJ is reporting that the Chinese government has restricted the use of Tesla vehicles near or in sensitive installations like military and government facilities. The theory is that the cameras on Teslas could be used for spying. Tesla, of course, denies that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Posts Exploit to Use Spectre to Leak Data The Spectre family of side channel attacks against Intel based CPUs has been downplayed over the last year by some experts because they said there is no practical attack to steal data. Now Google has posted a proof of concept attack that could steal data at […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Britain Says Assange Cannot be Extradited Julian Assange, a long time thorn in the backside of some folks in the US government, cannot be extradited to the US, a British court says. The court said that while he probably can get a fair trial in the US, the court system in the US is unlikely […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning the use of eight Chinese apps, namely Alipay, CamScanner, QQ Wallet, SHAREit, Tencent QQ, VMate, WeChat Pay, and WPS Office. The EO says that the apps can track users and capture personal data – Just like, say, Facebook or Fox News or any other American app. But […]
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