Modern LCD screens don’t spew out electronic emissions like the old “tube” displays – but apparently they make telltale noises instead.
Monthly Archives: August 2018
Facebook: It’s too tough to find personal data in our huge warehouse
GDPR: it means give users their data when they ask for it, and Facebook’s refusal to do so has provoked an inquiry by the Irish DPC.
Tumblr outlaws creepshots and deepfake porn
The blogging site wants to go back to a simpler time, where, it says, people were a lot nicer … and didn’t glorify gore and upskirting.
Google created “unnecessary risk” for Fortnite users, claims Epic boss
Google disclosed the bug “in order to score cheap PR points”, said Epic CEO and founder Tim Sweeney,
Listening Watch sounds out security idea with websites that listen
Listening Watch, a project based on earlier work by researchers Prakash Shrestha and Nitesh Saxena, uses the power of sound to log you into your favourite websites.
NSA leaker Reality Winner gets 63 months in jail
Reality Leigh Winner, the NSA contractor who leaked sensitive information to the Intercept last year, was sentenced to 63 months in prison last week along with three years of supervised release.
Facebook helps woman track down her brother’s killer after 37 years
The murder took place long before the World Wide Web, but Facebook turned up both the killer and his sons, who had witnessed the crime.
Woman sues US border patrol over data copied from seized iPhone
The Muslim American wants assurances that the data – including photos of her not wearing a hijab – are deleted.
Tuesday review – the hot 23 stories of the week
Get yourself up to date with everything we wrote last week – it’s roundup time.
T-Mobile suffers data breach affecting 2.2 million customers
The third most popular mobile network in the US, T-Mobile, has suffered a data breach affecting more than two million of its customers.