SF News Patient Logbook Goes Missing at SF General Hospital, Security Review Underway A big privacy problem has come to light at Zuckerberg General Hospital, as a patient logbook containing personal and medical information has disappeared and cannot be accounted for, and the hospital is conducting security reviews.
Business & Tech Apple Will Scan Your iPhone for Child Porn; Critics Wonder What Else They’ll Snoop On A coming iOS upgrade will scan users’ iPhones for any images of child sexual abuse, but one wonders how many livelihoods will be ruined whenever the bots make a mistake.
SF News Art Professor Claims His Phone Was Searched Without A Warrant At SFO In these ever tense times for civil liberties, we have a new case out of the Bay Area that is likely to ruffle some privacy-protection feathers. ABC 7 brings news of a Bay
SF News Insurance Company To Offer Rate Discounts Based On Your Facebook Posts A UK auto insurer is seeking to get quick insights into your personality via snapshots of Facebook posts that would, they say, make people eligible for discounts, or cause them to get higher
Arts & Entertainment Sharing Your Netflix Or HBO GO Password May Now Be A Federal Crime Though there are likely to be future decisions that limit the ramifications of this one, a three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last week ruled that without specific authorization from
Arts & Entertainment Pokemon Go App Can Access Your Email And Contacts On iPhones Posing Major Privacy Problem A little privacy, please?#PokemonGO pic.twitter.com/7eqPmstl90— ENTJ Probs (@entj_probs) July 10, 2016 Now that the world and your social media feed has been overtaken with Pokemon Go news, it
SF News Second Pro-Apple Rally Planned For Tonight In Downtown SF Growing group of folks at the SF Apple Store. Showing support of Apple's decision to protect encryption for users. pic.twitter.com/UKIwf5qYPK— Doctor Popular (@DocPop) February 18, 2016 Less than a week
SF News Now Uber Wants To Track Your Location Even When App Is Not Running Rapidly expanding, IPO-hinting "technology platform" Uber makes way too many headlines these days. But in the case of their new privacy policy, due to take effect July 15, it feels like they may
SF News The CIA Has Been Trying To Crack iPhone's Security Encryption For Years A new piece on The Intercept, following on a secret, annual, CIA-sponsored hacker "Jamboree" devoted to "exploiting security flaws in household and commercial electronics," suggests that U.S. spies have been intent on
SF News Facebook, Google, Other Tech Companies Reveal Vague Outlines Of NSA Surveillance Requests In a group of simultaneous and totally cryptic public reports, tech companies including Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Apple all disclosed for the first time Monday the scope and number of requests they responded
SF News NSA Has Been Trying To Hack Our iPhones Since 2008 The gift of Edward Snowden's NSA docs just keeps on giving (the NYT is calling for his clemency as a whistle-blower today, in case you missed it), and this week we learn that
SF News American And British Spies Have Wasted A Lot Of Time On World Of Warcraft Looking For Terrorists As part of the trove of documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, The Guardian and Pro Publica are now reporting that some pertain to a years-long effort to infiltrate potential terrorist
SF News Google Will Splash Your Face On Sponsor Endorsements Unless You Opt Out Google wants to make you the new face of [insert brand name here] via a new revision to their terms of service. Basically, the company plans on taking anything you review or rate
SF News Google Will Face Federal Lawsuit For Reading People's Gmail Between the NSA, Facebook, and Google, your life is an open book. But, a federal judge in San Jose ruled Thursday that Google will have to face a wiretapping lawsuit over the claim
SF News Popular App Tinder Had a Huge Privacy Flaw, Now Fixed And in further proof that privacy barely exists anymore, a popular new hookup social media app turns out to have had a huge security flaw that was broadcasting your GPS location and all
