Autos: New Law mandates “kill switch” on all new vehicles sold in 2027
Law Will Install Kill Switches In All New Cars for all new vehicles sold beginning in 2027. Requires that vehicles automatically determine if a driver is impaired and refuse to…
Security: All of Uber’s information systems hacked
An Uber employee fell for this old phishing trick: The person who claimed responsibility for the hack told The New York Times that he had sent a text message to…
IRS to start collecting photos of taxpayers
UPDATE FEB 7 – 2022: IRS abandons plan to use facial recognition to access one’s tax records. The collection will be outsourced to a third party “identify verification” service. Starting…
Investigation: How TikTok’s Algorithm Figures Out Your Deepest Desires
Watch the video at the link. A Wall Street Journal investigation found that TikTok only needs one important piece of information to figure out what you want: the amount of…
Many Android smart phones are spying on you and your data
Google sends large amounts of obfuscated data from your phone to Google – no one knows what Google is collecting: Study Warns Android Phones From Samsung, Xiaomi And Others Are…
No it isn’t: Missouri governor says viewing HTML source code containing private data the state published on every page, is a crime
Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday condemned one of Missouri’s largest newspapers for exposing a flaw in a state database that allowed public access to thousands of teachers’ Social Security…