Corporate Corruption
December’s Feet of Clay Award : Verizon/AOL Is Selling Ours Kids Personal Data
Woo Hoo! December's Feet of Clay Award has been summarily bestowed upon those nearly perfect examples of corporate scumbaggery: Verizon/AOL! Congratulations (and a $4.95 Million Fine) are in order targeting the sellers ...
The Tracking of America: Why Are You Letting It Happen?
Why are both Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) still permitting clearly ill-conceived user tracking via applications marketed and sold on each company's customer-facing app stores? Surely your privacy ...
Too Busy, Don’t Care; So Sorry, Not Sorry
via Lawrence Abrams, writing at Bleeping Computer, comes news of a the most recent Attorney's General - The Gathering, colaescing into a brilliant coterie of top Law Enforcement Officials for their individual ...
Vendor Dismissal Of Discovered Voting Machine Vulnerabilities Stinks To High Heaven…
Image Credit: Unknown Provenance Turns out, that in this case, Heaven's got nothing to do with it ...
Bye-Bye, DNA – Hello GSK (and others)
via The Outline author Paris Martineau, comes this tale of opt-in/opt-out, GlaxoSmithKline 23andMe. and of course, The Goods - , your DNA. Which results in a nagging question: Why would I (or ...
Facebookery: Playtime in Palo Alto
via Cyrus Farivar, writing at Ars Technica, comes evidence of skullduggery at Zuckerberg's Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB), this time, in the guise of failing to answer Senatorial queries, simply by ignoring such ...
Robert M. Lee and Jeff Hass’ Little Bobby In ‘Paid Award’
via the Security Mindset of Robert M. Lee and Illustration talents of Jeff Hass at Little Bobby Comics Permalink ...
Microsoft Begins Censoring Outlook, Office 365, Et Cetera: Will Terminate Offending Accounts
Through Simon Sharwood, writing at El Reg, we learn of newly-minted egregious modifications of Microsoft Corporation's (Nasdaq: MSFT) EULA and Service Agreements. In which the company will begin terminating accounts that create ...