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Supreme Court rules police need a warrant to access a suspect’s cellphone location data

sudshr47 June 22, 2018

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The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 today that police cannot freely access people’s cellphone location data, regardless if they are suspected for a crime.

Police have always needed court-approved warrants before searching people’s phones (due to the search and seizure protections under the Fourth Amendment), but they routinely breeched that protocol by accessing data from wireless carriers without a court’s permission.

Phone privacy rights — from wiretaps to location data — have long been debated in the courts, so today’s ruling is a symbolic win for privacy advocates and somewhat of an upset for law enforcement. Read more…

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YugaByte’s new database software rakes in $16 million so developers can move to any cloud

sudshr47 June 12, 2018

Looking to expand the footprint of its toolkit giving developers a unified database software that can work for both relational and post-relational databases, YugaByte has raised $16 million in a new round of funding. For company co-founder, Kannan Muthukkaruppan, the new database software liberates developers from the risk of lock-in with any provider of cloud […]

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Phone and tablet makers reportedly had deep access to your Facebook data too

sudshr47 June 4, 2018

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Back in 2015, Facebook stopped third-party app developers from accessing your friends’ data.

As evidenced from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, that kind of shady behaviour has resulted in quite the privacy nightmare, but phone and tablet manufacturers apparently had access to that data too.

The New York Times reported the social media giant had data sharing partnerships with at least 60 device makers, including Apple, Amazon, Blackberry and Samsung, with many of these agreements still continuing.

These partnerships allowed for Facebook features to be integrated into phones — a.k.a device-integrated APIs — allowing Blackberry users to call their Facebook friends, for instance.  Read more…

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How to use GDPR to clean out your inbox once and for all

sudshr47 May 24, 2018

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You might have noticed a slew of odd-looking emails landing in your inbox lately. Desperate subject lines like “please don’t go” and “is it really over” abound. 

These thirsty emails aren’t the handiwork of a scorned ex—they’re from brands complying with Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation by asking us if we’d like to remain subscribed to their marketing emails. 

So, let us all take this opportunity to clean out our poor, detritus-ridden inboxes. Thank you, GDPR, for this enormous favour. 

But, before we count all our chickens, let’s just take a second to make sure we know precisely how to unburden ourselves of the scourge of marketing emails. Mashable spoke to GDPR experts to find out precisely what we need to do to be free once and for all.  Read more…

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Meet Alchemist Accelerator’s latest demo day cohort

sudshr47 May 17, 2018

An IoT-enabled lab for cannabis farmers, a system for catching drones mid-flight and the Internet of Cows are a few of the 17 startups exhibiting today at Alchemist Accelerator’s 18th demo day. The event, which will be streamed live here, focuses on big data and AI startups with an enterprise bent. The startups are showing their […]

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People are still naming their kids after ‘Game of Thrones’ characters

sudshr47 May 11, 2018

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The Social Security Administration has released its list of top baby names for U.S. kids in 2017. Surprise: people are still super into naming their kids after television characters.

The trend of naming a child after a Game of Thrones favorite has always been a little puzzling to me, mostly because you never know when your favorite character is going to die a disturbing death. Nevertheless, two of the names that increased the most in popularity last year were Lyanna and Yara — although Black-ish star Yara Shahidi probably had a hand in the latter. Arya also enjoyed an increase in popularity.

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Twitter sold data to a Cambridge Analytica-linked researcher — but it’s not as bad as it sounds

sudshr47 April 30, 2018

Facebook isn’t the only social network you need to worry about when it comes to protecting your personal data.
Twitter confirmed on Saturday to The Telegraph that it sold data access to the academic who also obtained millions of Facebook users’ infor…

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Twitter also sold data access to Cambridge Analytica researcher

sudshr47 April 30, 2018

Since it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed the personal data of millions of Facebook users, one question has lingered in the minds of the public: What other data did Dr. Aleksandr Kogan gain access to? Twitter confirmed to The Telegraph on Saturday that GSR, Kogan’s own commercial enterprise, had purchased one-time API access […]

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