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…
Category: Misc
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…
More privacy news from last week
Some more privacy news compiled by Joe Cadillic: How Private Is My VPN? “The Markup examined the privacy policies of 14 popular VPN companies. We also ran their websites through Blacklight, our tool for detecting third-party trackers. And we searched through our Citizen Browser data for VPN Facebook advertisements to see not only how VPNs…