...and
a Happy Thanksgiving to you, EU. So now you can argue with two
companies (Go and Ogle?)
The
European Parliament Just Voted To Break Up Google
The
European Parliament has passed
a historic vote to break up US tech giant Google.
The
EU doesn't actually have the power to break up the company, but it
does send a message to Google that the EU is unhappy with its
business practises.
…
The European Parliament has never voted to break up a company
before, making this a historic decision.
If I
read this correctly (and I often do not) this is signaling that Kim
Jong-un is on shaky ground and could suffer a fatal attack of gout at
any time.
North
Korea reveals Kim Jong-un’s sister’s top role in ruling party
North
Korea has revealed that leader Kim Jong-un’s younger sister is a
senior official in the ruling Workers’ Party, strengthening
analysts’ views that she is an increasingly important part of the
family dynasty that runs the country.
State
media on Thursday referred to Kim Yo-jong as a departmental vice
director within the party’s Central Committee.
For
my Computer Security class.
Twitter
wants to spy on the other mobile apps you download - here's how to
stop it
Twitter
is to start monitoring the other apps that you download to your
mobile phone and use that data to help sell advertising.
The
company says it’s about making a "more personal Twitter
experience for you" so that it can deliver "tailored
content that you might be interested in".
Twitter
will only collect the list of names of apps you install - your "app
graph" data - rather than the content within those apps, but
it’s still a little creepy.
…
Thankfully, Twitter
has made it easy to opt out.
If
you are using Twitter for Android
You need to go into settings,
tap the account you’d like to adjust and under “other” you can
adjust the setting to "tailor Twitter based on my apps".
If
you are using Twitter for iOS
Go into settings, find the
account you want to change and, under Privacy, you can change the
setting to "tailor Twitter based on my apps".
Of
course they do. (It's for the patients!) If they could guarantee
security, this would not be an issue. So far, they haven't convinced
me they even think about security.
Joseph
Conn reports:
The American Medical Informatics Association is asking Congress to
amend a central federal healthcare privacy rule, in order to give
medical researchers access to patient records without their consent.
A see-saw battle has been waged at the federal policy level for more
than a decade over patient consent regarding medical records, with
patient privacy advocates arguing that control over information about
one’s self is the definition
of privacy.
So, not surprisingly, a leading privacy advocate reacted negatively
to the AMIA request.
“It’s shocking that they don’t have enough data yet, they’re
going after more?” said Dr. Deborah Peel, a psychiatrist who heads
the Patient Privacy Rights Foundation in Austin, Texas. “We
completely support the opinion that every research use should be
disclosed to the patient.”
Read
more on Modern
Healthcare.
It’s
not just disclosure, of course, that’s at issue. It’s also the
issue of consent or at the very least, the right to opt out of use of
PHI.
This
blogger believes that Congress should not amend HIPAA to permit
research use of PHI without patient consent.
For
my Ethical Hackers. A nice summary!
Are
Your Home Security Cams Being Streamed Online Without Your Knowledge?
Reports
broke earlier this month about a
website that was live streaming footage from more than 70,000
Internet connected security cameras. In the past few days, the media
reports have gotten hysterical with the Daily Mail reporting — and
I use that word loosely — that Russians
spy on UK families via their webcams. This particular website
has now been removed but the security threat is not gone.
I’ve
looked into it, talked to a security expert and worked out some of
how the supposed hack occurred.
All
the cameras on the website were broadcasting their feed online
because they were designed
to do so.
…
According to the site’s now-removed FAQ the cameras were found
with what Kev calls “Google hacking”. Many of the effected
cameras’ webpages include things like “live feed” and the
camera model in the title tag. By using advanced
search operators such as intitle: it’s
possible to find all of these pages that have been indexed by Google.
…
Google
finds sites by following links. If Google can’t find links to
a site it can’t index it. All the affected camera’s webpages
ended up on Google. This means, that for some reason, there is a
link somewhere on the Internet pointed to the camera’s webpage.
A
couple of these look interesting.
5
Useful Apps For All Smartphone Owners
Record
Encounters With Law Enforcement Using Police
Tape
It
is an app (for both iOS and Android) which you can use to record an
encounter with law enforcement, and then have it immediately uploaded
(I couldn’t find out whether it is uploaded to YouTube or to the
ACLU).
Once
it’s uploaded, no-one can force you to delete it. And by taking
the time to use this site to bone up on your legal knowledge, you can
calmly and rationally discuss a situation with a police officer,
knowing what is right and what is wrong.
Find
Out How Good An App’s Privacy Levels Are With Privacy
Grade
With
the amount of apps an average person puts on their phone, there is a
higher than average chance that some of them will have a back door to
somewhere you don’t want it to go.
Privacy
Grade is a site for Android apps only, but most of them will
also have an iOS version, which won’t be that much different from
its Android counterpart. It assigns a grade to each app depending on
a multitude of factors, and since the research is done at Carnegie
Mellon University, you can be assured that there is some credibility
to these scores.
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