
Amazon’s Ring Neighbors App Exposed Users’ Precise Locations and Home Addresses
A security flaw in Ring’s Neighbors app was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app.
A security flaw in Ring’s Neighbors app was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app.
By Tom McKay and Dhruv Mehrotra December 11, 2020 In May 2016, a student enrolled in a high-school in Shelbyville, Texas, consented to having his phone searched by one of Read More…
Whereas many DMVs sell drivers’ names, addresses, or vehicle information, the Arizona Motor Vehicle Department (MVD) sells some residents’ most personal information.
A mobile app once used by the Trump campaign and other partisan interests has been rebranded and is now part of an “approved” national app database specifically designed for use by public health and safety agencies.
The CEO of data broker Mobilewalla, which worked with Republican SuperPACs, says it tracked Evangelicals’ cell phone locations for six months.
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A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says.
Doorbell-camera firm Ring has partnered with 400 police forces, extending surveillance concerns.
Firm has uncovered emails that appear to show chief executive’s connection to potentially problematic practices, the WSJ reports.
Apple says, “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data — in a single week.
The judge says the government’s request “runs afoul” of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
The software allows the FBI to automate the analysis of mountains of video surveillance footage much faster than live agents can.
On Friday afternoon, just hours before Congress failed to avert a government shutdown, the President signed into law the “FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017.” The bill passed the House and Senate earlier this week with the support of many Republicans and Democrats, offering only slight adjustments to Section 702, a law that oversees the NSA’s spying ability.
With bipartisan backing, a total of 256 members of the House of Representatives voted Thursday morning to renew one of the government’s most sweeping surveillance authorities for six years with Read More…
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