Using technology for stalking was back in the news this week. Earlier this week, I posted a link to an article about how Google Street View can be used to facilitate stalking when combined with a web site exploit that extracts the victim’s MAC address. Dan Solove also discusses stalking over on Concurring Opinions. He…
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Germans sound iPhone attack alarm as Apple claims fix ready
Gregg Keizer reports: Amid a warning by German authorities of possible malicious use of a critical iPhone exploit, Apple said it has a fix ready and will deliver it in the next smartphone update. The exploit first surfaced Sunday, when it was used to “jailbreak” any device running Apple’s iOS mobile operating system. “Jailbreak” is…
Court: snooping employees didn’t violate Joe the Plumber’s right to informational privacy
Remember the “Joe the Plumber” flap over state employees snooping in his records? The Associated Press reports that a court has dismissed his lawsuit alleging privacy invasion against Ohio Department of Job and Family Services employees. In the order dismissing the case against Helen Jones-Kelley, Doug Thompson, and Fred Williams, Judge Algenon L. Marbley dismissed…
Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images
Declan McCullagh reports: For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they’re viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.” Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the…