The Internet Knows You’re Depressed and It’s Marketing Accordingly
Credit to Author: Matthew Gault| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 14:07:56 +0000
Researchers in Europe studied how websites catering to the depressed track and sell data.
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Venmo Is Still Exposing Your Connections to Everyone You Know
Credit to Author: Samantha Cole| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 21:27:49 +0000
The EFF and Mozilla published an open letter today urging Venmo parent company PayPal to fix the app’s privacy holes.
Read moreFERC, NERC Want to Disclose Names, Penalties for Cybersecurity Reliability Violations
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:52:16 +0000
The names of bulk power system entities that violate federal critical infrastructure cybersecurity reliability standards—along with identification of standards violated and penalties assessed—may soon be routinely disclosed under changes proposed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the North American Reliability Corp. (NERC). The proposed changes, which FERC and NERC outlined in an Aug. […]
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Read moreMicrosoft Contractors Listened to Xbox Owners in Their Homes
Credit to Author: Joseph Cox| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 19:47:39 +0000
Multiple contractors working for Microsoft explain how they listened to audio captured by Xbox consoles.
Read moreWorking on Microsoft’s Cortana Is Laborious and Poorly Paid
Credit to Author: Joseph Cox| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 19:46:34 +0000
Leaked documents show that Microsoft’s contractors are paid between $12 and $14 an hour and are asked to transcribe as many as 200 audio clips per hour to train the Cortana virtual assistant.
Read moreClothing Resale Marketplace Poshmark Announces Data Breach
Credit to Author: Joseph Cox| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 20:50:45 +0000
“We recently discovered that data from some Poshmark users was acquired by an unauthorized third party.”
Read moreThis Tool Lets You See Facebook’s Targeted Political Ads All Over the World
Credit to Author: Edward Ongweso Jr| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 17:53:00 +0000
Facebook has failed to be fully transparent with data concerning political advertising, so two researchers collected the data themselves.
Read moreBarr Says Police Need Encryption Backdoors, Doesn’t Mention Hacking Tools They Use All the Time
Credit to Author: Joseph Cox| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 20:25:16 +0000
Barr reignited demands for tech companies to find a technical solution to the ‘Going Dark’ issue, but neglected to mention in his keynote speech that law enforcement agencies use hacking techniques to bypass encryption.
Read moreAs Authoritarian Governments Surveil the Internet, Open Source Projects Decide How to Respond
Credit to Author: Joseph Cox| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 16:06:32 +0000
Kazakhstan is telling citizens to download a cryptographic certificate, letting authorities monitor their traffic. Mozilla and Wikimedia are discussing how to respond from afar.
Read moreThe One Company I Gave My Address To Won’t Delete It
Credit to Author: Joseph Cox| Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:43:04 +0000
I get packages delivered to friends and don’t have my name on my doorbell. But all of my work may have been undermined by a cheap mattress.
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