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Monthly Archives: March 2015
Leave Facebook if you value your privacy, says EU
A lawyer for the European Commission told an EU judge he should leave Facebook if he wants to stop the US snooping on him.
PayPal in trouble over Weapons of Mass Destruction (sort of)
PayPal just agreed to pay up $7.6M to the US Treasury for allegedly failing to block transactions that fell foul of sanctions laws.
How secure is your Wi-Fi? 3 things small businesses need to know
Getting Wi-Fi security right is essential for everyone, but small businesses especially could use some good security advice. Here are 3 key things small businesses should know about securing Wi-Fi.
Hijacked school Twitter account turns head teacher into a porn star
Nothing like a bit of Photoshopping and access to the school’s Twitter account to turn an unwitting head teacher into a beefcake.
Tinder hack tricks men into unknowingly flirting with each other
In yet another example of how very hackable Tinder is, an engineer set up bait female profiles and then hooked up the guys who “liked” them.
“Look at me” – forget fingerprints, here comes a Samsung tablet with iris recognition
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? 
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. 