US research institute SRI has inked a deal with Samsung to build a tablet with built-in iris recognition. Samsung’s S5 fingerprint reader was cracked PDQ…wonder how long your eye-prints will hold up? 
Daily Archives: March 26, 2015
RadioShack to auction off customer data, violating own privacy policy
Despite it’s privacy policy, bankrupt RadioShack is putting customer names, addresses, email addresses and other data up for auction.
Plenty Of Fish hooked by Canada’s anti-spam laws, faces 48k penalty
Canada’s strict anti-spam laws have come down hard on another offender, with the operators of dating website Plenty Of Fish paying a $48,000 penalty for failing to provide proper unsubscribe options in emails sent to its users.
Uber goes Big Data, shares customers’ data with a hotel chain
Uber has joined the rank of Big Data sellers, up there with Facebook, Google and Visa. The product: data about customers’ movements, where they shop, where they work, where they go and much more. 
Entire Oakland Police license plate reader data set handed to journalist
The entire LPR dataset of the Oakland Police Department (OPD) included more than 4.6 million reads of over 1.1 million unique plates captured in just over 3 years.
Serious Security: China Internet Network Information Center in TLS certificate blunder
TLS certificates are very important. In fact, you could say they are the cornerstone of online security, especially for e-commerce. So we thought we’d use a story about a recent certificate security blunder to remind you why…