AI: Apple sues OpenAI over theft of intellectual property
This could get very ugly, quickly. Does not look good.
Tech: U.S. may ban TPLink home WiFi routers
U.S. may ban TPLink routers.
Privacy: NSA – All Your Data Is Belong To Us
NSA secretly buying Americans’ data without a warrant – Washington Times
How the Lily Collins Facebook Hack May have worked
Details are here. I believe there were multiple attack vectors. The one described at the link is an analysis of a Google Chrome extension that grabbed the authentication cookie for…
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…
China scans western web sites and social media as part of surveillance network
Including this blog: Hundreds of projects launched since 2020 show that Chinese police, state media and the military are gathering data from sites including Twitter and Facebook to track perceived…
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…
Australia’s Bluetooth-based contact tracing app deemed largely irrelevant
Says they’ve identified a total of … one person: The PM told Australians in April the contact tracing app was key to getting back to normal but just one person…
TSA Air Marshal program puts ordinary travelers under intense scrutiny and monitors their every move
Ordinary people in the U.S. became targets of a bizarre, Orwellian TSA surveillance program.
Our temporary foreign work visas have turned into “spy visas”?
Silicon valley's widespread use of temporary tech workers imported from other countries could be fostering widespread industrial spying for the benefit of foreign adversaries.
Data mining enables many companies to discern your health conditions
Data brokers compile health and frailty profiles that have wide-ranging applications for drug companies, advertisers, insurers and other buyers. Source: How bits of captured data paint a stealth portrait of…
Fascinating details: “The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs In Eight U.S. Cities”
These fortress-like AT&T buildings are central to a secret NSA program that has monitored billions of communications, documents and sources reveal. Source: The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs In Eight U.S.…
Loyalty Cards are used to spy on your purchases, and not just with the vendor
The story of how that Sudafed ad got to me begins at Walgreens. As I bought tissues and Afrin, I keyed in my phone number so I could get loyalty…
The primary business of the Internet is surveillance
Similar to Uber’s “God View” scandal, Lyft staffers have been abusing customer insight software to view the personal contact info and ride history of the startup’s passengers. One source that…
Google spies on you, recording your voice when you are not expecting it to
Android devices have an “Ok, Google” voice activation feature. This enables voice input of search and other functions on your Android device. Google also records a copy of the audio…