Demonstrations Planned at Apple Stores in San Francisco, Boston, Portland, and Atlanta San Francisco—Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) activists will lead a protest on Monday, September 13, at 6 pm PT, demanding Apple drop its planned iPhone surveillance software program, which will endanger the privacy and security of its customers and open a backdoor to increased surveillance…
Category: Misc
Personal chemistry: Proteomics tackles privacy concerns
Laurel Oldach reports: Philipp Geyer was interested in learning how protein levels in the blood change when a person tries to lose weight. Several years ago, Geyer, then a postdoctoral fellow, and his colleagues in Matthias Mann’s lab at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry began to analyze samples from a dieting study, hoping to identify…
GoDaddy boots Texas abortion “whistleblower” site for violating privacy rule
Jon Brodkin reports: The Texas Right to Life group will have to find a new hosting provider for its website that encourages people to report violations of the state’s restrictive new anti-abortion law. GoDaddy took action after Gizmodo reported that Texas Right to Life’s new website, prolifewhistleblower.com, seems to violate a GoDaddy rule that says website operators may not…
A popular smart home security system can be remotely disarmed, researchers say
As devices and cities have becoming increasingly “smart” (which may turn out to be one of the most tongue-in-cheek labels ever), we are seeing more and more reports of hacks or how things can go very, very bad. In today’s installment, Zack Whittaker reports that security firm Rapid7 claims it found a pair of vulnerabilities…