Annie Andrews reports: It looks like the end of Donna Zink’s battle for sex offender records. The former mayor of Mesa has been fighting tooth and nail for the personal records of Level I sex offenders living in Benton County. But after a long-awaited court ruling, it seems the database she’s been trying to create,…
Month: January 2014
Researchers create Android app that shows when other apps track you
Clever. Zach Miners reports: A team of researchers has developed an Android app to help people better understand when their location is being accessed, something that happens more often than people think. “All apps that access location need to request permission from the Android platform,” Janne Lindqvist [cq], who led the research project, said via…
CSEC used airport Wi-Fi to track Canadian travellers: Edward Snowden documents
Greg Weston, Glenn Greenwald, and Ryan Gallager report: A top secret document retrieved by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowdenand obtained by CBC News shows that Canada’s electronic spy agency used information from the free internet service at a major Canadian airport to track the wireless devices of thousands of ordinary airline passengers for days after they left the terminal….
How App Developers Leave the Door Open to NSA Surveillance
Tom Simonite reports: News that the National Security Agency has for years harvested personal data “leaked” from mobile apps such as Angry Birds triggered a fresh wave of chatter about the extent of the NSA’s reach yesterday. However the NSA and its U.K. equivalent, GCHQ, hardly had to break much technical ground to hoover up…