Camel-Borne Google Street View
via Geekologie comes this look at Google Inc.'s (NasdaqGS: GOOG) street view in Abu Dhabi...
via Geekologie comes this look at Google Inc.'s (NasdaqGS: GOOG) street view in Abu Dhabi...
Evidently, crank developers are now targeting Cupertino, California based Apple, Inc.'s (NasdaqGS: AAPL) decision to out the utilization of location data by apps resident on iOS devices, even when an app is not running...
The company's own apps require authorization as well; perhaps the coming singularity is slowing down, just a tad, mind you... Certainly a contrarian view.
via MacDrifter's Gabe, revealing les couilles of the developers of SwiftKey. Evidently, a very popular iOS 8's key logger, for sale on the AppStore, mon Dieu.
Maybe, just maybe, there is scientific hope for the Right to Privacy. At once, ruminating upon the Declaration of Universal Human Rights*** and the United State's 4th Amendment to the Constitution** , hope doth, truly spring eternal...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced the second co-sponsored Privacy Engineering Workshop, slated for the 15th and 16th of September, 2014 in San Jose, California. Co-sponsored with the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the Workshops mandate is a focus on engineering objectives (in draft) and the necessitated Risk Model (that model was a key output of the first Privacy Workshop).
Constitution of the United States, Amendment IV**
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 12***
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
via HOPE X conference speaker and forensic scientist Jonathan Zdziarski, comes this fascinating slide deck of backdoors in motion, and targeting Apple Inc. (NasdaqGS: AAPL) iOS 7 devices. Today's Must Read.
via the superlative journalism of Dan Goodin at ArsTechnica, comes the sad tale of flawed light bulbs; in which, the internet of things are coupled to, evidently, the interweb-of-less-than-secure-objects-with-little-need-to-be-on-the-internet-in-the-first-place.
Fascinating write-up, via El Reg's John Leyden, of what some may say smack's a bit o' the Ned Ludd... In which, Mr. Leyden tells a tale fractionally too close to home; yours and my home, that is. A tale of portent, and societal dis-ease whence the Internet of Things [IoT] truly does arrive, and we become beholden to our inter-connected fridges, light bulbs and what-not. SkyNet? Hardly. An apt description would be MundaneNet™.
News, via Jordan Valinsky, writing at Gizmodo, detailing the use by some health care facilities - of big data extracts- and focusing on the credit card data contained therein. Perhaps you may be wondering why and how credit card data may be relevant to determining health payment statistics... Stay tuned and examine the Bloomberg Businessweek article where clarity may be provided in regards the use of spending information and illness in homo sapiens spendthriftus.
"According to Bloomberg Businessweek, it's currently being used by Carolinas HealthCare System, which is using that type of data to survey the health of its two million members." - via Jordan Valinsky at Gizmodo
via Kirk McElhearn, a Senior Contributor focusing on iTunes automation and break-fix over at Macworld] comes a smattering of bad news for Facebook users. Apparently, large numbers of users were subjected to psychological testing [without prior consent]. Ooops...