The FBI recently demanded from Google the data about all people using location services within a 100-acre area in Portland, Maine, as part of an investigation into a series of robberies. The request included the names, addresses, phone numbers, “session” times and duration, log-in IP addresses, email addresses, log files and payment information.
Police may have used location history is to see who has crossed paths of a person they were tracking. For example, suppose police are tracking an illicit drug distribution ring. Dealers meet with customers to deliver drugs.
In order to identify potential customers, police can see whose location data puts them in close proximity to the distributor they are tracking. Merely by being around a distributor, you then become a potential target of police operations.
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The IEEE Standards Association is trying to help readers detect such content with its new IEEE P7011 Standard for the Process of Identifying and Rating the Trustworthiness of News Sources. Source: …
Google admits they spy on you always: Google has changed a help page that erroneously described how its “Location History” setting works,…
Even when Location History is set to off, Google’s Android continues to track your location. Google uses your highly detailed location information to discern your interests, where you shop, why type of health problems you may have (by virtue of which doctors or therapists you visit) and more.
We now know that even with Location Services disabled, Google still tracks and records your every move. The data is collected, ostensibly, for targeted advertising. An advertiser could request thei…
It’s all about knowing where you shop, and where you go. An enormous amount of data may be discerned from your location data – even your health records. Seriously.
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Ahsha Safaí and Aaron Peskin, two San Francisco supervisors, are proposing to ban companies moving into new office space in the city from offering their employees free meals, in hopes of getting tech workers to visit local restaurants.
Politico says Silicon Valley is swarming with non-traditional spies, especially from China but also from other countries. Most are apparently working at tech companies in Silicon Valley and San Francisco.
It’s as if our program of recruiting hundreds of thousands of temporary tech workers from other countries (almost entirely from India and China) has turned into a self inflicted spying and IP theft operation. Who could have seen that coming?
Chinese officials bussed in 6,000-8,000 J-Visa holding students—threatening them with the loss of Chinese government funding
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Chinese intelligence has long focused on surveilling, and attempting to control, Chinese nationals studying abroad. One well-documented mechanism for this effort has been the use of Chinese Students and Scholars Associations groups on university campuses.
More than a quarter million comments submitted to the Food and Drug Administration about flavored vapor products were fake, according to a watchdog group.
They do not need access to your protected[1] health care records. Instead, companies are data mining your credit card purchases, your public social media, your online purchase habits and a host of other data points to guess at your health situation and assign you a “health score”.
This secret health score could be used by insurance companies to change your life insurance premiums, or by a prospective employer to deny you a job because your health score is not good enough for them.
You have no idea what data they have collected and analyzed, nor what score they have assigned to you. The data itself is often incorrect (as I recently found) and their assumptions about you are often wrong too. But there is no way to correct their secret health score.
Many companies have moved from individual offices or cubicles to open floor spaces, removing doors and presumed barriers to interaction.
A study that tracked workers before conversion to open offices, and after the conversion, found that open offices dramatically reduced employee face to face interaction – in favor of instant messaging and email. The latter, however, have been shown to reduce productivity.
Bottom line: open office layouts are failing to achieve improved interaction – and are actually making interaction worse.
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