February 8th, 2019 | General | No Comments Yet
Tonight we look at several privacy articles and a few business news items. On the top of the priorities is a re-visitation of Session Replay and how it showed up in several iPhone apps. But Apple is not the only phone concern as it turns out that live GPS phone data leak is wider than we thought! Also, a children’s smart watch was recalled in the EU nations…these and more on tonights Weekly News Roundup!
Privacy
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/02/facebooks-legacy-anger-depression-and-fake-news/
https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/google-password-checkup-cross-account-protection/
https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/5a29dc2c-3fee-452a-adaf-736973e850f0/baby-activity-skill-api
https://www.zdnet.com/article/eu-orders-recall-of-childrens-smartwatch-over-severe-privacy-concerns/
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3b3dg/big-telecom-sold-customer-gps-data-911-calls
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/06/iphone-session-replay-screenshots/
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/6/18213956/nest-cryptic-warning-security-cameras-strangers-peeking
Business
https://energycommerce.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/pallone-doyle-to-pai-it-s-oversight-time
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/5/18212213/amazons-facebook-break-up-antitrust-paradox-lina-kahn-vergecast
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/charter-raises-sneaky-broadcast-tv-fee-for-second-time-in-four-months/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-novum-pharma-files-for-bankruptcy-20190205-story.html
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/vaccinations-jump-500-in-antivax-hotspot-amid-measles-outbreak/
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/02/firefox-66-to-block-automatically-playing-audible-video-and-audio/
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/08/spotify-will-now-suspend-or-terminate-accounts-it-finds-are-using-ad-blockers/