This week's big news had to do with a heat map published back in November by a fitness tracking application called Strava. A 20-year-old in Australian noticed that the running data from U.S. military personnel indicated where clandestine bases were … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Feb. 2, 2017
Will the new FTC be less into privacy? The new members of the Federal Trade Commission are more experienced with antitrust than with privacy enforcement, which is making attorneys who monitor the agency concerned that those members will be less … [Read more...]
The future is calling and we can’t opt out
This week I popped by my in-laws' home to install an Amazon Echo Plus and some smart home gear. My plan was to see how easy it was for normal, mainstream consumers to set up and operate popular smart home devices. Instead I ran into a cold reality … [Read more...]
The internet knows a lot about you … and your kid
A little less than half of 190,000 people surveyed around the world by Mozilla said that the loss of privacy was their biggest concern about living in a connected future. The 45% of people who are worried are presumably adults, but a new paper asks … [Read more...]
How to review and permanently delete voice recordings from a Google Home or Amazon Echo
Digital assistants are great, except when they aren’t. This week, for example, a software glitch recorded everything people said when doing their reviews of the new Google Home Mini. Yes, everything they said all day and all night was stored on … [Read more...]