Today’s revelations highlight the danger that can arise from […] a lack of safeguards, the absence of which has allowed an intelligence agency to extract data about a human rights charity […]
The researchers are still investigating how this all works.
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/
From now on, every time you log into a Google property (for example, Gmail), Chrome will automatically sign the browser into your Google account for you. […] Google developers claim this will not actually start synchronizing your data to Google — yet.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/12/technology/kids-apps-data-privacy-google-twitter.htm
The review of 20 children’s apps […] found examples on both platforms that sent data to tracking companies, potentially violating children’s privacy law; the iOS apps sent less data over all.
We need paper verifiable ballots, no internet voting, and we need to ensure we can audit ballots properly.
http://www.thedrive.com/tech/23599/tesla-stolen-from-mall-of-america-using-only-a-smartphone
A little bit of social engineering can go a long way.
https://www.wired.com/story/weather-channel-hurricane-florence-storm-surge-graphic/
It fills in the gaps of your imagination, and hopefully underscores for anyone in a flood zone all the reasons they should not be.
GCHQ’s methods for bulk interception of online communications violated privacy and failed to provide sufficient surveillance safeguards, the European court of human rights has ruled.