location data
InMarket is Second Data Broker to Settle with FTC This Month
For the second time this month, the Federal Trade Commission is banning a data broker from selling or licensing precise location data without getting the consumer’s consent. Under the 14-page FTC order, ...
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TikTok ‘Will’ Spy on US Citizens — Say Sources
Richi Jennings | | Bytedance, CCP, china, China saw how successful Russia was with Facebook, Forbes, GPS, location data, SB Blogwatch, spyware, Tik Tok, TikTok
TikTok parent ByteDance is planning to track the location of certain targeted individuals on U.S. soil, using a specialist Chinese team ...
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Uvalde Shooting Investigation Reveals Major Privacy Violation
In Carpenter v. United States, the Supreme Court noted that, in order for law enforcement officials to obtain location data for cell phones, they needed to have a warrant signed by a ...
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Florida Water Supply Hack, Android App Hijack, US Capitol Riot Phone Tracking
Tom Eston | | ads, android, Cybersecurity, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Florida, Hackers, location data, Podcast, Privacy, security, smartphone, technology, US Capitol Riot, water supply, Weekly Edition
In episode 160: An attacker tried to poison a Florida city’s water supply, a popular Android app was hacked to display malicious ads, and how smartphone location data was used to track ...
COVID-19 Contact Tracing: Your Privacy for Your Health?
Christopher Burgess | | application development, Contact Tracing, COVID-19, GPS, location data, provacy
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 ...
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Click Armor Demo, Podcast Survey Results, Google Geofence Warrants
Tom Eston | | Click Armor, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Geofence Warrant, geolocation, google, location data, Phishing, Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Privacy, survey
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, ...
IoT Device Attacks, FCC Fines Mobile Carriers, Let’s Encrypt Certificate Bug
Tom Eston | | ajit pai, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data Privacy, fcc, HTTPS, Internet of things, iot, Let's Encrypt, location data, Mobile, passwords, Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Privacy, smartphone, ssl, T-Mobile, TLS, Weekly Blaze Podcast
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 ...
Personal Data Collection: Outsourcing Surveillance
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 ...
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Apple Confirms iPhone Regularly Gathers Location Data, But Says It Doesn’t Leave the Phone
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 ...
Don’t (Geo)Fence Me In: Courts Order Google To Give Up Location Data
Mark Rasch | | geofencing, google, location data, mobile apps, Privacy, search warrant, surveillance
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 ...
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