Stephanie M. Lee reports: 23andMe bills itself as a company that “democratizes personal genetics” for the world. And that description’s not necessarily all that far off: For $99, customers spit into an at-home kit, mail it in, and then go online to learn about their ancestral origins and far-flung relatives. But consumers also get their…
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Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing
EFF announces: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), privacy company Disconnect and a coalition of Internet companies have announced a stronger “Do Not Track” (DNT) setting for Web browsing—a new policy standard that, coupled with privacy software, will better protect users from sites that try to secretly follow and record their Internet activity, and incentivize advertisers…
Windows 10: Microsoft under attack over privacy
Alex Hern reports: Windows 10 is under attack over default settings which users say compromise their privacy, just days after the operating system’s successful launch saw more than 14 million installs in the first 24 hours. Hundreds of commenters on sites such as Hacker News and Reddit have criticised default settings that send personal information to Microsoft, use bandwidth to upload…
DARPA program tries to track data’s path, find vulnerable points
Amber Corrin reports: While data travels from point A to point B on the Internet, exactly where it goes in between is not really clear. A consequence of this mysterious routing is that the point at which an adversary might attach malicious code is hard to identify. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is trying…