Just found out the car I drive from @Ford has an app that enables the car’s location to be tracked. There are good reasons I might not want someone else who drives the car to know my location. Dealership laughed at my privacy concerns. This just seems wrong to me.

ATM skimming is on the rise and getting more sophisticated.

Membership in closed groups was easily accessible before the change

Samba TV, which has deals to put its software on sets made by about a dozen TV brands, uses viewing data to make personalized show recommendations. But that’s not the big draw for advertisers.

In order to protect civil liberties without hampering innovation, lawmakers should require public input before surveillance tools are deployed and ensure that facial recognition databases are purged of data related to law-abiding people.

Today the American Civil Liberties Union Foundations of California released emails between Amazon employees and local law enforcement revealing how the company has been pushing its facial re

Samba TV, which has deals to put its software on sets made by about a dozen TV brands, uses viewing data to make personalized show recommendations. But that’s not the big draw for advertisers.

Because of their side effects, browser fingerprinting countermeasures may have a negative impact on users privacy. In this post we look more in details at Canvas Defender, a canvas fingerprinting countermeasure.

The issue appears to be affecting Galaxy S9 and Galaxy Note 8 users.

Before it became a covert surveillance tool disguised as an outstanding browser extension, Stylish really was an outstanding browser extension. It bestowed upon its users nothing less than the power to change the appearance of the internet. Its extensive bank of user-made skins gave bright websites a dark background, undid disliked UI changes, and added manga pictures to everything that wasn’t a manga picture already. I spent many wonderful hours in its simple CSS editor, hiding the distracting parts of the web whilst unknowingly being spied on. Facebook news feed...

Privacy risks with Facebook’s PII-based targeting: auditing a data broker’s advertising interface Venkatadri et al., IEEE Security and Privacy 2018 This is one of those jaw-hits-the-floor, can’t qu…

Protect the nudes

Facebook told US lawmakers that while it imposed new data-sharing restrictions on most app developers in May 2015, 61 companies received a special 'one-time' extension.

The scandal erupted after one company claimed to be able to track any cell phone in the US "within seconds."

So-called ultrasonic beacons are becoming even more popular with marketers. Here's how to shut them out.

We had a hunch that no one ever actually wins those mall car giveaways. But we had no idea how deep the rabbit hole went…