Advertisers hit Facebook where it hurts – the balance sheet
Back in March I wrote up my six reasons why Facebook might be dying. Top of the list were the scandals surrounding fake news and […]
Security & Privacy
Hurdles to making digital contact tracing work
Why we should think twice before rolling out digital contact tracing…
Apple and Google team up in bid to use smartphones to track coronavirus spread
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/10/apple-google-coronavirus-us-app-privacy Apps that track who you have been in contact with will aid with contact tracing, but at what cost to privacy and civil liberties? […]
Zoom is eating up market share for video conferencing. It’s also eating up all your private information.
A report from respected internet marketing expert Doc Searls highlighted a worrying amount of data being sucked from users by video conferencing app Zoom and fed to online advertisers such as Facebook and Google.
Up to 500,000 WordPress websites hit by InfiniteWP security vulnerability
The Register is reporting that a security problem in the popular InfiniteWP plugin may have exposed over 300,000 websites to being hacked. The issue, which […]
Don’t put your Face in a Book
Biometrics is the next battleground of privacy. We can control what we share with social networks and tech companies, but there is far more data […]
Anyone can join your private WhatsApp group using a simple Google search
Google has indexed the invite links for lots of “private” WhatsApp” groups. So, if you have a private group for your company, your team, or […]
Having traffic problems? I feel bad for you, Google. I got 99 phones but a car ain’t one
Have you ever dodged a traffic jam using Google Maps? I have… or at least I thought I had until today. Turns out, all you need to create a fake traffic jam is 99 mobile phones and a hand cart.