Data collection is getting more comprehensive as the days pass. Now one tech company has filled a patent to bring data collection and advertisement displays to a whole new and scary level. Learn more.
This week in the Weekly News Roundup, California may eliminate anonymous web browsing, James Webb images are full of malware, and smart thermostat users were locked out of their temperature control to save power. We also visit SillyVille.
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Today in Tech News, hackers can clone millions of keys for cars, Google teams up with adidas for a fitness tracker, apple watch has more tracking features, and Google cripped some Amazon TV apps, and Ring shows you data from before the motion triggered!
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This week in Dumb Tech News, three small IoT companies ask congress for help against BigData, a new ultrathink biometric data grid can read fingerprints and vein prints all in one! Also, Sonos kills more early devices, and a smart scale goes dumb..but all this nothing compared to San Diego's new Mass Surveillance contracts!
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Tonight we will look at the war on tech that has been raging this week. This and other news.
Privacy
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/judge-to-feds-no-you-cant-warrantlessly-put-a-gps-device-on-truck-entering-us/
https://theintercept.com/2018/09/06/nypd-surveillance-camera-skin-tone-search/
https://wellbeing.instagram.com/parents
Business
https://blogs.skype.com/news/2018/08/31/simplicity-and-familiarity-updates-to-the-skype-user-experience/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/locky/locky-the-first-smart-key-overlay
https://www.wired.com/story/google-wants-to-kill-the-url/
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/former-nasa-contractor-arrested-charges-alleging-hacking-and-online-threats-made-obtain
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/ajit-pai-does-isps-bidding-pushes-for-tighter-rules-on-google-and-facebook/
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180829/18030740541/that-time-telco-lobbyists-sent-me-all-their-talking-points-about-trying-to-shift-blame-to-internet-companies.shtml
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/5/17805162/monopoly-antitrust-regulation-google-amazon-uber-facebook
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/5/17801482/tech-monopoly-regulation-facebook-amazon-google-anti-trust
Security
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/4/17818714/google-chrome-password-manager-security
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/09/unpatched-routers-being-used-to-build-vast-proxy-army-spy-on-networks/
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