Tyler Durden reports: A study by researchers from Northeastern University and Imperial College London found that many popular smart TV models, including models by Samsung and LG, as well as streaming dongles Roku and Amazon FireTV, are leaking sensitive user data to advertisers. The models listed above would share data like location and IP address…
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Millions of Americans’ Medical Images and Data Are Available on the Internet. Anyone Can Take a Peek.
Millions of Americans’ Medical Images and Data Are Available on the Internet. Anyone Can Take a Peek. by Jack Gillum, Jeff Kao and Jeff Larson. This story was co-reported with the German public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this…
Massive 30 State, Real-Time ALPR Database Revealed
Joe Cadillic writes: Our worst fears about automatic license plate readers (ALPR) are much worse than we could have imagined. Two months ago, I warned everyone that police in Arizona were using ALPR’s to “grid” entire neighborhoods. But this story brings public surveillance to a whole new level. Last month, Rekor Systems announced that they…
Period Tracker Apps Used By Millions Of Women Are Sharing Incredibly Sensitive Data With Facebook
Megha Rajagopalan reports: Period tracker apps are sending deeply personal information about women’s health and sexual practices to Facebook, new research has found. UK-based advocacy group Privacy International, sharing its findings exclusively with BuzzFeed News, discovered period-tracking apps including MIA Fem and Maya sent women’s use of contraception, the timings of their monthly periods, symptoms…