This report from the Berkman Center’s Berklett Cybersecurity Project offers a new perspective on the « going dark » debate from the discussion, debate, and analyses of an unprecedentedly diverse group of security and policy experts from academia, civil society, and the U.S. intelligence community.
Source : Berkman Center Report | Don’t Panic: Seeking Points of Agreement on the « Going Dark » Debate
Gyrometers in phones can measure small movements, while GPS and accelerometers show how often a vehicle starts and stops, as well as its overall speed. If a rider complains that a driver accelerated too fast and broke too hard, we can review that trip using data. If the feedback is accurate, then we can get in touch with the driver. And if it’s not, we could use the information to make sure a driver’s rating isn’t affected.
Source : Curb Your Enthusiasm | Uber Global
While staying as a guest in the property, at night Mrs. Schumacher would sleep without any clothing, believing that with the front door closed and the window blinds drawn throughout the property, she was protected and free from prying eyes. This natural presumption proved to be incorrect.
Source : Woman sues Airbnb after finding hidden camera in her rental | Ars Technica
Driving Mode is a clever new version of navigation mode that uses your location history and web searches to make assumptions about where you’re going and give traffic updates and ETAs as you travel. It’s sort of like the commute feature for work and home addresses, but with some data-mining genius to make it more flexible. The new mode can be launched with a shortcut on the homescreen or from the nav drawer.
More and more of Baihe’s 90 million clients are displaying their credit scores in their dating profiles, doing away with the idea that a credit score is a private matter
Source : China ‘social credit’: Beijing sets up huge system – BBC News
Tout est parti en juillet 2014, avec la plainte d’une personne qui « dénonçait la communication par téléphone de son mot de passe par la société ». Celle-ci craignait alors que ses données confidentielles soient stockées en clair dans la base de données de ce spécialiste. Moins de deux semaines plus tard, la CNIL procède à un contrôle de la société.
Source : La CNIL inflige 50 000 euros de sanction à l’encontre d’Optical Center – Next INpact
We need to have some kind of a big data capability of determining what’s happening to our network out there, because it’s not just people getting on the network, it’s people doing things to the network.
Tom Wheeler, Federal Communications Commission Chairman
Source : Congressman: To stop ISIS, let’s shut down websites and social media | Ars Technica
Millions of mobile devices with SilverPush powered SDK are constantly listening to SilverPush patented audio beacons (ultrasonic) which are watermarked in Televison ad commercial. A pair is made once a SDK comes in proximity of audio beacon. The individual ID is mapped back to its audience genome and a brand-consumer journey has been started.
SilverPush’s company policy is to not « divulge the names of the apps the technology is embedded, » meaning that users have no knowledge of which apps are using this technology and no way to opt-out of this practice. As of April of 2015, SilverPush’s software is used by 67 apps and the company monitors 18 million smartphones.
SilverPush’s ultrasonic cross-device tracking was publicly reported as long ago as July 2014. More recently, the company received a new round of publicity when it obtained $1.25 million in venture capital. The CDT letter appears to be the first time the privacy-invading potential of the company’s product has been discussed in detail. SilverPush officials didn’t respond to e-mail seeking comment for this article.
Source : Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC | Ars Technica
The majority of smartphone owners taking part in an 11-nation survey said they’d rather have their nude pics publicly exposed than their financial information.
Source : Smartphone owners value banking data over their nude pics, survey says | Ars Technica
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