Cambridge University are working on a technology-oriented approach where multiple small devices create an “electronic aura”, enabling a main device to transmit a unique identification signal. Meanwhile a company spun out of an Oxford University programme is developing more biomechanical methods of recognising people based on the way they move, behave and interact with devices.
Daily Archives: August 4, 2014
Apple faces class action suit for tracking users without consent
A Californian plaintiff says that nobody at Apple ever told her about tracking her whereabouts, nor did anybody ever ask for her permission. She says she only found out about it by watching a recent Chinese state TV report about iPhone being a security risk to the state. 
Mozilla database leaks 76,000 email addresses, 4,000 passwords
Email addresses and encrypted passwords of thousands of Mozilla developers were accidentally exposed for a month – and there are no guarantees that they were not snaffled up by those with ill intent.
Facebook slapped with $123 million revenge-porn lawsuit
For months, Facebook hosted a revenge-porn page dedicated to humiliating one Texas woman with Photoshopped clips of her face pasted onto porn shots, a US woman from Texas is claiming. Facebook’s report abuse procedure got her nowhere; only a police subpoena got through. Is that Report Abuse button actually hooked up to anything, or is it buzzing in an empty room? 