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Family DNA Privacy is at risk with pleas from commercial DNA collection groups wanting you to give them free rein over your DNA to allow it to be shared with law enforcement. One could be responsible for a family member getting locked up or worse yet yourself implicated in something you have now knowledge of. I know personally that my
If you don't believe the adage "If it's free, you're the product" then you need to go and look at the BBC's foot-stomping and whining at Google. The BBC has pulled its podcasts from the Google ecosystem and in a blog post, Kieran Clifton, the BBC's Director of Distribution and Business Development, explains why. He says, "Google has since begun
Apple News dominated the tech sector today, it seems everyone has figured out to not even try to make any announcements when Apple is having a big event. We had to dig to get you a full stack of news today. Some of the topics covered are not linked below but the meat of today's shot is. I have some
T-Mobile Home Internet with unlimited bandwidth may be coming to a rural area near you. I would encourage T-Mobile to really get this offer out in the 49082 zip code area. I am really excited about this as there is simply no way that the incumbent cable providers are ever going to get this done or have the fortitude to
It seems that Facebook cannot prevent itself from causing security and privacy problems. According to KrebsOnSecurity, hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees. A anonymous Facebook insider talked with Brian Krebs. The insider said Facebook is still trying to determine how many passwords were exposed, and
The European Commission has fined Google €1.49 billion for abusive practices in online advertising and for breaching EU antitrust rules. According to the European Commission, Google has abused its market dominance by imposing a number of restrictive clauses in contracts with third-party websites which prevented Google's rivals from placing their search adverts on these websites. Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said: “Today
YouTube & Facebook had their hands full with taking down all the rouge videos from the Christchurch shooting and massacre. With the easy of live streaming these days it's not an easy thing to have enough technology to halt live streams like this mid progress but even harder to kill all the copies of the video once it has been
Who knew that Myspace was still a thing? Not me. I deleted my account there a long time ago and never looked back. It turns out that there are people who still use Myspace, and who are probably very upset today. Myspace has somehow lost all content that was uploaded to its site before 2016. According to The Guardian, MySpace
Stanford Medicine announced the results of the Apple Heart Study. The study was funded by Apple. There were over 400,000 participants in the study. The study was launched in November of 2017, and was a first-of-its-kind research study using Apple Watch's heart rate sensor to collect data on irregular heart rhythms and notify users who may be experiencing atrial fibrillation
Recently, Spotify filed a complaint against Apple with the European Commission. Yesterday, Apple posted a statement titled “Addressing Spotify's claims”. I suspect this will not be the end of the argument between Spotify and Apple. Apple started by giving a brief history of the iTunes Store and the App Store. After that, Apple begins making a case against Spotify. To
Facebook had the biggest outage of its history and no one seemed to care. In my opinion, everyone's mental health probably improved during the outage. More worrisome is the new cell phone location data proposal of the FCC that will pinpoint your location to within 3 feet in buildings and everything that does not come with any additional privacy rights.
Founder and CEO of Spotify, Daniel Ek, posted “Consumers and Innovators Win on a Level Playing Field” on the Spotify Newsroom. In it, he announces that Spotify has filed a complaint against Apple with the European Commission (EC). Daniel Ek starts by pointing out that his goal for Spotify is to reimagine the audio experience by giving consumers the best
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