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WiFi Signals Can ID Individuals by Body Shape | Motherboard - 0 views

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Due to the difference of body shapes and motion patterns, each person can have specific influence patterns on surrounding WIFI signals while she moves indoors, generating a unique pattern on the CSI time series of the WIFI device," the team writes in its report. "FreeSense…is nonintrusive and privacy-preserving compared with existing methods [of human identification].

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Due to the difference of body shapes and motion patterns, each person can have specific influence patterns on surrounding WIFI signals while she moves indoors, generating a unique pattern on the CSI time series of the WIFI device," the team writes in its report. "FreeSense…is nonintrusive and privacy-preserving compared with existing methods [of human identification].</div>

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98 personal data points that Facebook uses to target ads to you - The Washington Post - 0 views

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Say you're scrolling through your Facebook Newsfeed and you encounter an ad so eerily well-suited, it seems someone has possibly read your brain. Maybe your mother's birthday is coming up, and Facebook's showing ads for her local florist. Or maybe you just made a joke aloud about wanting a Jeep, and Instagram's promoting Chrysler dealerships. Whatever the subject, you've seen ads like this. You've wondered - maybe worried - how they found their way to you.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Say you're scrolling through your Facebook Newsfeed and you encounter an ad so eerily well-suited, it seems someone has possibly read your brain. Maybe your mother's birthday is coming up, and Facebook's showing ads for her local florist. Or maybe you just made a joke aloud about wanting a Jeep, and Instagram's promoting Chrysler dealerships. Whatever the subject, you've seen ads like this. You've wondered - maybe worried - how they found their way to you.</div>

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Privacy Scandal Haunts Pokemon Go's CEO - 0 views

Ian Forrester on 10 Aug 16

Within two weeks of its release last month, Pokemon Go, the augmented reality gaming sensation, surpassed, by one estimate, Twitter, Facebook, and Netflix in its day-to-day popularity on Android phones. Over on Apple devices, the game was downloaded more times in its first week than any app that came before it.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Within two weeks of its release last month, Pokemon Go, the augmented reality gaming sensation, surpassed, by one estimate, Twitter, Facebook, and Netflix in its day-to-day popularity on Android phones. Over on Apple devices, the game was downloaded more times in its first week than any app that came before it.</div>

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Connected Toys Are Raising Complicated New Privacy Questions - 0 views

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"Toys and other devices are collecting loads of data from children. What could go wrong?"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Toys and other devices are collecting loads of data from children. What could go wrong?"</div>

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Horrifying New Credit Scoring in China | mathbabe - 0 views

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"we're doing anything at all we want, with personal information, possibly discriminatory and destructive, but there are a few people who will benefit from this new system versus the old, so we're ignoring costs and only counting the benefits for those people, in an attempt to distract any critics."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"we're doing anything at all we want, with personal information, possibly discriminatory and destructive, but there are a few people who will benefit from this new system versus the old, so we're ignoring costs and only counting the benefits for those people, in an attempt to distract any critics."</div>

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Robo Hobo Bamboozles Passers-By | Hackaday - 0 views

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"Tripling as a feat of engineering, a social commentary on homelessness, and an interactive puppet show, [Ables] causes us to pause on the issue of homelessness and human-robot interaction. For a more whimsical interaction, a robot ball that follows you around is a pleasant way to get used to the presence of robots in society."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Tripling as a feat of engineering, a social commentary on homelessness, and an interactive puppet show, [Ables] causes us to pause on the issue of homelessness and human-robot interaction. For a more whimsical interaction, a robot ball that follows you around is a pleasant way to get used to the presence of robots in society."</div>

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Facebook changes story, now says phone location not used to recommend friends | Fusion - 0 views

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Runkeeper is secretly tracking you around the clock and sending your data to advertiser... - 0 views

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Large botnet of CCTV devices knock the snot out of jewelry website | Ars Technica - 0 views

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"Researchers have encountered a denial-of-service botnet that's made up of more than 25,000 Internet-connected closed circuit TV devices."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Researchers have encountered a denial-of-service botnet that's made up of more than 25,000 Internet-connected closed circuit TV devices."</div>

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Open Rights Group - Tesco Mobile customers should think twice before viewing ... - 0 views

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Tesco Mobile has announced a new optional scheme in which its customers can get £3 a month off their phone bill. In return, customers agree to see adverts on their lockscreen "every few times" they unlock their phone.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Tesco Mobile has announced a new optional scheme in which its customers can get £3 a month off their phone bill. In return, customers agree to see adverts on their lockscreen "every few times" they unlock their phone.</div>

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Why Google Trailing Apple on Encryption Support Is a Human Rights Issue - 0 views

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Ian Forrester on 26 Jun 16

"A leading privacy activist says Google's lack of support for strong encryption makes second-class citizens out of people who can't afford Apple devices."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"A leading privacy activist says Google's lack of support for strong encryption makes second-class citizens out of people who can't afford Apple devices."</div>

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