Douglas MacMillan, Sarah Krouse and Keach Hagey report: The U.S. tech industry has largely declared it is off limits to scan emails for information to sell to advertisers. Yahoo still sees the practice as a potential gold mine. Read more on WSJ. Shannon Liao also reports on this over on The Verge: Yahoo still scans…
Month: August 2018
Cities across the country are installing “free” spying Smart City Kiosks
Joe Cadillic writes: Two years ago, I wrote an article warning NYC residents that City Bridge was installing spying Smart City Kiosks (SCK) throughout the city. The SCK’s came equipped with cameras, microphones and sensors that created the largest urban spying system in the country. SCK’s collect lot’s of personal information, like a person’s MAC address,…
Back-To-School Revolt in Springfield? Employees balk over using Google Drive as evidence of massive privacy breach mounts
Springfield Public Schools in Missouri may be in the early stages of what could become an all-out employee revolt. And if they are, some employees claim that the district has no one to blame but itself for not properly securing employee, student, and parent data even after they were warned of serious privacy breaches and…
Texas Children’s Hospital fires nurse who posted about boy with measles
Samantha Ketterer and Todd Ackerman report: A nurse at Texas Children’s Hospital has been fired after posting information on social media about a rare measles case in the city, hospital officials said Tuesday. The hospital took the action four days after learning of the nurse’s posts on a Facebook page called Proud Parents of Unvaccinated…