Jacob Hoffman-Andrews writes: Verizon advertising partner Turn has been caught using Verizon Wireless’s UIDH tracking header to resurrect deleted tracking cookies and share them with dozens of major websites and ad networks, forming a vast web of non-consensual online tracking. Explosive research from Stanford security expert Jonathan Mayer shows that, as we warned in November, Verizon’s UIDH header is…
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Court orders Twitter to identify anonymous users
Evan Brown writes: Plaintiff company and its CEO sued several unknown defendants who tweeted that plaintiff company encouraged domestic violence and misogyny and that the CEO visited prostitutes. The court allowed plaintiffs to serve subpoenas on Twitter to seek the identity of the unknown Twitter users. Twitter would not comply with the subpoenas unless and…
Obama to push cybersecurity, identity theft and online access plans
Jim Puzzanghera reports: President Obama will focus on high technology next week, announcing efforts to strengthen cybersecurity, prevent identity theft and increase Internet access, the White House said Saturday. The initiatives will be included in his State of the Union address, which Obama is previewing before the Jan. 20 speech, rather than saving all his…
OS X search tool Spotlight runs roughshod over Mail privacy settings
Shaun Nichols reports: Spotlight, the desktop search engine for OS X computers, will ignore privacy settings in Apple’s Mail client when showing messages in its search results. The programming booboo means pictures and possibly other files linked to in HTML emails will automatically show up even if you’ve told Apple’s supplied client to not load…