https://www.pcmag.com/news/368417/neal-stephenson-explains-his-vision-of-the-digital-afterlife
Neal Stephenson’s new book, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, is out June 4, and we spoke to him about this sprawling sci-fi epic, the digital afterlife, and why social media is a doomsday machine.
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/can-indie-social-media-save-us
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/21/18634842/google-passwords-plain-text-g-suite-fourteen-years
Only affects some G Suite customers
it can’t find any evidence that anybody’s password was improperly accessed. It’s resetting any passwords that might be affected
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/
The T-Pod is level 4 autonomous […], and uses a Nvidia Drive platform to process visual data in real time. An operator, sitting miles away, can supervise and control up to 10 vehicles at once.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/google-gmail-tracks-purchase-history-how-to-delete-it.html
Google saves years of information on purchases you’ve made, even outside Google, and pulls this information from Gmail.
The spyware in question that was detected as having been installed was Israel-based NSO Group’s Pegasus
https://www.ft.com/content/4da1117e-756c-11e9-be7d-6d846537acab
attackers were able to install surveillance software on to both iPhones and Android phones by ringing up targets using the app’s phone call function.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/software-update-crashes-police-ankle-monitors-in-the-netherlands/
the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security had to step in and preemptively arrest and jail some of its most high-risk suspects.
used to train the company’s facial recognition system, and that Ever then offers to sell that technology to private companies, law enforcement and the military.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/10/gps-trackers-flaw/
This device is marketed at keeping the most vulnerable safe and yet anybody can locate and listen into thousands of people’s lives without their knowledge
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/google-privacy-turnaround/
Google’s argument is that they’re able to protect you from other companies’ privacy-rejecting technologies, but you can and should give them more of your private data.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/08/samsung-source-code-leak/
A development lab used by Samsung engineers was leaking highly sensitive source code, credentials and secret keys for several internal projects — including its SmartThings platform
I listened to four years of my Alexa archive and found thousands of fragments of my life […] There were even sensitive conversations that somehow triggered Alexa’s “wake word” to start recording
https://nrkbeta.no/2019/05/02/disse-knappene-kan-avslore-om-du-soker-psykisk-helsehjelp/
At du besøker disse informasjonssidene deler Kristiansand kommune med det amerikanske IT-selskapet Oracle, noe de ikke opplyser om på sine personvernsider.
https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/interactive/2019/05/02/china-how-mass-surveillance-works-xinjiang
Reverse Engineering’ Police App Reveals Profiling and Monitoring Strategies
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-adds-option-to-auto-delete-location-history-data/
the company has been sued in the US, and is also facing GDPR investigations in seven EU countries for using deceptive UI controls that hide the fact the company is sometimes collecting location data.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/docker-hub-hack-exposed-data-of-190000-users/
Docker Hub usernames, hashed passwords, GitHub and Bitbucket access tokens exposed in the hack.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-flaw-lets-attackers-recover-private-keys-from-qualcomm-chips/
knowing the sad state of Android OS updates, this will most likely leave many smartphones and tablets vulnerable for years to come.