Steve HartTechnology Smart doorbell company Ring may be surveilling users through its app The Guardian - Kari Paul in San FranciscoAmazon’s smart doorbell company Ring may be using its app to surveil users, a report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation revealed on Wednesday. The “Ring for Android” app shares user data including
Steve HartMobile Technology Amazon Engineer: 'Ring should be shut down immediately and not brought back' TNW - Tristan GreeneAn Amazon software engineer named Max Eliaser is calling for the shutdown of Ring, the doorbell camera company Amazon paid $2 billion for in 2018. Hundreds of Amazon employees recently banded together
Steve Hart How to Totally Secure Your Smartphone Medium - David Strom There’s never been a better time to lock it down The more we use our smartphones, the more we open ourselves up to the possibility that the data …
Steve Hart How to Get the Most from a 50mm F1.8 Lens for Portraits thephoblographer.com - Chris Gampat The 50mm f1.8 lens is an affordable option that photographers use to get images that really “wow” them. Photographers who get into the artform because …
Steve Hart This $20 USB Cable Is A Dead Man’s Switch For Your Laptop Forbes - Davey WinderMost people are familiar with the concept of a dead man's switch that, for example, activates the emergency brake should a London Underground train driver become incapacitated. There are many different
Steve Hart Here's Why You Should Finally #DeleteFacebook In 2020 - Tech Mashable - Matt BinderIt’s the one guaranteed response I receive from readers whenever I’ve published a story critical of the social media giant over the past few years. I, however, have resisted the calls to #DeleteFacebook.
Steve Hart Your smartphone is probably being tracked—and it's not hard to figure out who you are Mashable - Stan SchroederThere's an entire industry that revolves around tracking people's movements via their smartphones and selling that data to third parties. It's legal (in the U.S.), it isn't particularly hard to do, and
Steve Hart Facebook accesses your location even when you’ve opted out, confirms company 9to5Mac - Ben LovejoyIt was reported last year that Facebook accesses your location even when you have switched off Location Services for the app, and the company has now confirmed this in a letter to two senators. The company
Steve Hart Ring’s Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon's Sprawling Home Surveillance Network Gizmodo - Dell Cameron As reporters raced this summer to bring new details of Ring’s law enforcement contracts to light, the home security company, acquired last year by …
Steve Hart How to Give Ring and Nest the Boot and Set Up Your Own Home Security Camera Gizmodo - David Nield If you want a camera to sit on your mantelpiece and ping your phone every time the dog walks past, you’ve got more choice than ever before. But if …
Steve Hart Has Huawei’s Darkest Secret Just Been Exposed By This New Surveillance Report? Forbes - Zak DoffmanJust a few days after the devastating leak of the so-called China Cables, a cache of documents exposing the truth of the surveillance regime deployed in Xinjiang to suppress the minority Uighur population,
Steve Hart Exploit kits are slowly migrating toward fileless attacks ZDNet - Catalin Cimpanu Three out of the nine exploit kits active today are using fileless attacks to infect victims. The malware landscape is in a constant flux, with new …
Steve Hart WhatsApp Alert: Here’s How To Check If You’re Safe On WhatsApp - Tech Mashable - Natasha MathurWhatsApp recently got under the scanner for security related concerns over the Pegasus spyware breach. And now Facebook issued yet another security warning for WhatsApp users of a vulnerability that can
Steve HartMobile Technology Absolutely humongous data breach exposes more than a billion records Mashable - Marcus GilmerWell, this is certainly not great: An unprotected database of more than a billion users' records from across the internet — including "social media accounts, email addresses, and phone numbers" — was on
Steve Hart Telegram Founder Says Users Should ‘Delete WhatsApp’ Forbes - Kenneth RapozaWhatsApp doesn’t only fail to protect its users’ messages, it is consistently being used as a Trojan horse to spy on their users’ non-WhatsApp content, including photos kept on their phones. Founder of
Steve HartTechnology China says its digital currency will have “controllable anonymity”—but who will control it? MIT Technology Review - Mike Orcutt The digital currency that the People’s Bank of China says it is close to issuing will give the government unprecedented visibility into how its …
Steve Hart Google Made a Huge Mistake--and Now Project Nightingale Is a Scandal. It Didn't Have to Be That Way Inc Magazine - Cameron Albert-Deitch Google Made a Huge Mistake--and Now Project Nightingale Is a Scandal. It Didn't Have to Be That Way The tech giant's lack of transparency sends a very dangerous message.
Steve HartTechnology An Apple store customer came home. Then she realized what the Genius had done ZDNet - Chris Matyszczyk Apple fires a store employee who allegedly went through a customer's phone, found an intimate image of her, and texted it to himself. It's not a good …
Steve HartTechnology Facebook is secretly using your iPhone's camera as you scroll your feed TNW - MixiPhone owners, beware. It appears Facebook might be actively using your camera without your knowledge while you’re scrolling your feed. The issue has come to light after a user going by the name Joshua
Steve HartSmart Homes Keep Amazon, Google and Apple from listening in CNET - Katie Conner New privacy settings mean you don't have to share recordings of your smart speaker commands.
Steve Hart'Secret Consumer Scores' Explain Why Some People Get Much Better Service Than Others. Now, You Can Finally Request Your and Inc Magazine - Bill Murphy Jr.'Secret Consumer Scores' Explain Why Some People Get Much Better Service Than Others. Now, You Can Finally Request Your Data and Get Your Information A journalist who requested her data received a 400-page
Steve Hart Creepy Chinese facial recognition system puts your name and photo on a billboard if you jaywalk mirror.co.uk - Shivali Best It’s something that many people do without giving it a second thought, but if you jaywalk in China , you could be publicly shamed. Facial recognition …
Steve Hart When Apple Says The iPhone, iPad And Mac Are Built For Privacy, They Are Not Kidding news18.com - Vishal Mathur Safari Intelligent Tracking Prevention, for instance, has thrown Facebook and Instagram adverts completely off my scent. At a time when a lot of tech …
Steve HartWindows 10 How to password protect a folder in Windows 10, to keep your files safe from prying eyes Business Insider - Ross JamesIf you have sensitive information stored on a Windows computer that you share with others, or on a laptop that you're worried could be stolen, you'll need to keep your data safe. This is when password
Steve HartSocial Media No one should buy the Facebook Portal TV CNET - Megan Wollerton In over six years of testing tech, this is a first for me.
Steve Hart Chinese Hackers Just Gave Us All A Reason To Stop Sending SMS Messages Forbes - Zak DoffmanIf you take any interest in the nation-state cyberattacks that have picked up apace in recent months, then you’ll be no stranger to China’s attacks on international telecoms networks. As data sources telcos
Steve HartTechnology Florida police obtain Alexa recordings in murder investigation Engadget - Jon FingasThis time, though, officers are more realistic about what they may find. Police have once again obtained Alexa voice recordings as part of an investigation, although they're not necessarily expecting treasure
Steve HartMobile Technology Here’s how to stop your ISP from spying on you Fast Company - Sean CaptainOne change in browsers like Firefox or Chrome makes it much harder for your internet service provider, or anyone else, to see where you go online. The federal government has authorized your internet service
Steve Hart Watch Edward Snowden detail how phones are used to spy on you Android Authority - Hadlee SimonsSmartphones are an important way for governments, tech companies and bad actors to snoop on you, as you leave a digital paper trail. But how does this happen? NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden detailed
