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Tag Archives: Privacy
Live feeds from license plate readers exposed online
The EFF has found more than 100 ALPR cameras streaming live, “often with totally open Web pages accessible by anyone with a browser.”
Check your Facebook settings to make sure your posts aren’t searchable
Facebook now allows you to search others’ posts, which (of course) means they can search yours. Lock those posts down people!
Online pharmacy fined for selling user data to lottery company and others
The ICO has fined an online pharmacy company that not only sold on user data without proper consent, it also made some astonishingly crass choices of customers to sell it to, including a lottery company.
Snapchat makes users happier than Facebook, apparently
A study suggests that it’s nice not to have Major Life Events plastered on your phone. Better to have them poof into non-archived land. 
Your face could be sucked off Facebook and on to a national biometric database
Australia’s government is happy to jump on the high-quality, highly accurate imagery captured and linked to identities on social media. 
Apple tells judge it’s “impossible” to unlock a device running iOS 8 or higher
Apple says it doesn’t have the “technical ability” to unlock a modern iPhone and would rather not take a look at older models for fear of tarnishing its reputation.
New Android Marshmallow devices must have default encryption, Google says
Google has released compatibility requirements for new devices running Android 6.0 Marshmallow, and there’s one requirement that is justifiably getting a lot of attention – full-disk encryption must be enabled by default (with a few exceptions).
‘Teen stoner’ who says he hacked CIA head’s email quite pleased with himself
“Since only 13 i am pretty hype about it,” he said, taking a break from pro-Palestinian posts sprinkled with CIA-related screenshots. 
Facebook to warn you of targeted attacks – check this security setting anyway
Facebook announced last Friday that it will notify you it suspects you’re being targeted by nation state actors. Take this extra security step to protect your account, whether you think you’re a target or not …