Two comprehensive bills introduced Thursday in the House and Senate would compel law enforcement agents to obtain a warrant before affixing a GPS tracker to a vehicle, using a cell site simulator to locate someone or obtaining geolocation data from third-party service providers. Original post on wired.com Comments on reddit.com
After three and a half months of downtime Demonoid’s tracker is now back online. The unexpected revival of the tracker is the first sign of life in weeks and suggests that the Demonoid team is working to bring the full site back online. While the index and forum remain offline, the many thousands of torrents tracked by Demonoid have been brought back to life. Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
What do you get when you mix technology with candy bars? In a cool yet creepy marketing campaign, Nestle plans to stalk consumers with a Original post on networkworld.com Comments on reddit.com
Even by using privacy add-ons and telling sites not to track you, tracking that builds behavior profiles is out of control. Collusion is an add-on that will help you visualize that tracking. It was introduced by Gary Kovacs, CEO of Mozilla, during a TED talk titled Tracking the Trackers. Here is an interview with Ryan Merkley, Chief Operating Officer for the Mozilla Foundation, about Collusion, being tracked online and privacy. Original post on networkworld.com Comments on digg.com
After the Supreme Court’s January ruling that warrantless GPS tracking is illegal, the FBI shut down thousands of the devices, according to the bureau’s general counsel. Original post on arstechnica.com Comments on digg.com
While the file-sharing ecosystem is currently filled with uncertainty and doubt, researchers at Delft University of Technology continue to work on their decentralized BitTorrent network. Their Tribler client doesn’t require torrent sites to find or download content, as it is based on pure peer-to-peer communication. Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
The U.S. Supreme Court for the first time limited police power to track people using GPS devices, ruling in a case that will shape the privacy rights Americans should expect from a new generation of wireless electronics. Original post on bloomberg.com Comments on reddit.com Other bloomberg.com posts Other posts in News