It also wants to be the country’s data-privacy police: commissioners called for more resources and ability to impose penalties.
Tag Archives: Privacy
Airbnb Superhost’s creepy spycam sniffed out by sleuthing infosec pro
Why motion sensors in the bedrooms, she wondered? Why the extra light and weird wiring on the router?
Metal keys beat smart locks in NYC legal battle
A group of tenants in New York City have prevailed in a lawsuit against their landlord’s use of smart locks.
CSS tracking trick can monitor your mouse without JavaScript
A security researcher has demonstrated a new way to track mouse movements even if users block JavaScript.
Firefox add-ons with obfuscated code will be banned by Mozilla
The updated Add-on Policy aims to rid Firefox of third-party malicious code that hides what it’s really up to.
Google rolling out auto-delete for your location and activity history
Auto-delete will hopefully please those of us who haven’t already turned off location history altogether (for very good reason).
DHS policies allow unlimited, warrantless device search
Newly revealed policies show border agents can search devices for pretty much any reason, including if some other agency asked them to.
Mystery database exposes data on 80 million US households
Put on your detective hat – the researchers who found it say it’s full of people’s data, but not who it belongs to.
Facebook under investigation for harvesting 1.5m users’ contact lists
For years, Facebook asked some new users for email passwords, then grabbed their contacts without consent (or any way to stop the process).
Cops need warrant for both location history and phone pinging, says judge
It’s one of the first location data privacy cases to grapple with the warrant and surveillance implications of the Carpenter decision.