location data

We continually hear of the need for COVID-19 contact tracing. But what exactly is contact tracing? The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published guidance on contact tracing during the 2006 Ebola ...

In episode 98 of our monthly show co-host Scott Wright shows us a demo of Click Armor which is a gamified cybersecurity awareness platform, Tom presents the results of our listener survey, ...

In episode 111 for March 9th 2020: A new report shows that attacks on Internet of Things devices are on the rise, the FCC fines major mobile carriers for selling users’ location ...

The buying and selling of personal data means more entities are able to conduct surveillance without needing a warrant There’s an old joke that in communism that the government represses rights, takes ...

Apple confirmed that their latest iPhone 11 phones come with a feature that requires regular geolocation checks, but the company said that information doesn’t leave the phone. Security researcher Brian Krebs noticed ...

The danger in forcing companies with location-tracking apps to hand over the data to help solve crimes When you install a “Black Friday” app on your cellphone, you aren’t really expecting it ...

Google’s Australian arm is under fire from local watchdogs over its data collection practices on Android devices – specifically, the counterintuitive nature of location data settings. On Tuesday, October 29, the Australian ...

The commoditization of personal data in recent years has created huge opportunities for anyone with the skills to collect, catalogue and correlate every aspect of our lives. For many years now, there ...