Death of Privacy
Douglas J. Leith, PhD: ‘Web Browser Privacy: What Do Browsers Say When The Phone Home?’
A new (published February 24th, 2020) study - targeting web browser chattiness and privacy (whatever may be left, i.e.). Comprised of highly detailed data, and authored by Professor Douglas J. Leith PhD, ...
Mobile Carriers’ Free-Speech Rights Compromised By New Privacy Law? Read It And Weep
via Karl Bode, reporting for VICE, comes news of a lawsuit filed by telecom industry shills complaining that a Maine law requiring mobile telephone customers opt-in to having the carriers flog their ...
The Joy of Tech® ‘Facebook, the Game!’
via the Comic Noggins of Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech® Permalink ...
The Continuing Story Of Bad Corporate Behavior: Avast Antivirus Subsidiary Now Shuttering
Following the release of an excoriating report written by Joseph Cox at Vice - in which, the good Mr. Cox details the astounding bad-form by anti-virus-flogger-of-ill-repute - Avast, Nicolas Vega a news ...
Crikey, It Be Creepy
Read Kashmir Hill's superlative report and weep for your & your offsprings' mislaid safety and privacy. And, me bucko, once you've quit thee bellyachin' and you've sopped up your tears for the ...
Forbrukerrådet: New Study’s Conclusion – The Advertising Industry Are Law Breakers On A Massive Scale
Outstanding reports - via Norwegian Forbrukerrådet detailing the systematic criminal behavior exhibited by Advertising Entites and their Ilk, with the resultant aglommeration of data which permits them to collect and store an ...
Corporate Twisting Of Privacy Laws
Quite likely, the single most important Privacy related paper you should examine. Today's Must Grok. Permalink ...
23andMe Flogs Your DNA
Image via Stanford University All the more reason to avoid coughing up your DNA to for (and non-) profit companies. via H/T '"When you give your DNA data to companies like Ancestry.com ...
Ring, Casted and Nulled
Flawed security provisioning coupled with incompetent security management leads to Amazon’s Ring camera hacks, and the subsequent fear and loathing represented by those intrusions. Or, an Invasion of Privacy, by any other ...
