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 AG Rob Bonta Calls On Apple to Shore Up Privacy on Reproductive-Related Data After Vice managed to buy the location data of people who visited 600 Planned Parenthood clinics (for a mere $160!), California AG Rob Bonta is urging Apple to better protect users’ private information in App Store third-party apps.
Business & Tech Google Agrees To Pay Nearly $400 Million Settlement Over Basically Lying About Letting You Turn Off Location Tracking Google was tracking people even who turned off location tracking, which is kind of a problem in the era of abortion bounty hunter laws, so they’ve agreed to pay a $392 million settlement and they pinky-finger swear they’ll let you turn it off (eventually).
Business & Tech Amazon to Bring Eerie-Sounding ‘Palm Scanner Payment Technology’ to SF Whole Foods Stores A bizarre biometric form of payment is coming to several Bay Area Whole Foods locations, allowing you to pay just by waving your palm. But is it worth handing your biological data to Amazon just to avoid the extremely menial task of pulling out a credit card?
Business & Tech Twitter Now Says You Can’t Share Other People’s Images Without Their Consent, Confusion Abounds The new post-Jack Dorsey Twitter immediately freaked people out with a “more robust” privacy policy update, and they’re still posting threads to unspool exactly what this all means.
Business & Tech Zoom Video Conferencing Hit With Lawsuit Over Facebook Data Sharing; Other Security Issues Racking Up A class action lawsuit gets Zoom to admit they give your data to Facebook, just as the FBI warns that hackers are having a field day on the video conferencing platform.
SF News Google Wants You To Help With Street View By Using A $3,500 Camera Google's looking for a hand in keeping Street View updated by putting some high-powered tech into your hands. In order to do that, Google's turned to third-party manufacturers to develop what they call
SF News Department Of Justice Presses Facebook For Information On 'Anti-Administration Activists' The Department of Justice is digging deep into the private accounts of a few Facebook users, as it was revealed today that they're currently probing for information on several "anti-administration activists who have
SF News Chelsea Manning Appears In SF, Speaks Out On Privacy In New York Times "It was always unclear to me whether we were helping or perpetuating violence in a particular part of the country." https://t.co/9zcmP7YLlH— Ars Technica (@arstechnica) September 13, 2017 Just as we
SF News Fremont Man Allegedly Attempts To Blackmail Roommates With Sex Tape Your daily dose of gross comes from Fremont today, where the Chronicle reports on a 33-year-old man who's accused of secretly videotaping his roommates having sex and then attempting to extort them for
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 City Agencies About To Get OK To Start Flying Their Own Drones The rush to start flying drones through the skies of San Francisco has thus far consumed for-profit companies like Amazon, Google and Chipotle, all of which seek to to eventually test-fly various drone
SF News Leaked Facebook Document Suggests Plan To Target Ads To Teens Feeling 'Worthless' And 'Insecure' A leaked document from Facebook's Australia office, marked confidential and authored by two Australian Facebook executives, purported to show potential advertisers how to target to teens as young as 14 when they were
SF News [Update] SFO Can Now Record License Plates From Every Car That Visits The Airport Another reason to take BART to SFO? Privacy concerns. An Airport Commission vote last month gave San Francisco International Airport the go-ahead to use license plate readers to record the information from every
SF News Four Ways To Keep Snooping ISPs From Seeing And Selling Your Data Some have worried that consumer rights would lose out to corporate America during the Trump administration. Well, Tuesday's congressional vote allowing internet service providers (ISPs) to sell your personal web browsing history is
SF News Uber Staff Allegedly Enabled Stalking And Accessed Beyonce's Trip Data Fresh on the heels of an update allowing Uber to track users' location data for up to five minutes after they've been dropped off, the ride-hail giant now faces allegations that some of
SF News Uber Assures Worried Customers It Will Not 'Publicly Display' Your Ride History An Uber ride to a Planned Parenthood clinic. A weekly ride to an address that hosts AA meetings. Early morning pickups at your coworker's address. Ride-hail company Uber knows intimate information about its
SF News If You Used Dropbox In 2012, Your Password May Have Been Compromised The extent of a previously announced breach of Dropbox user data back in 2012 is now coming to light, and as Motherboard reports, in addition to users' email addresses, passwords were obtained and
SF News Oakland Man Accused Of Torching Street-View Cars Because He Fears Google Tracking Fearing Mountain View-based Google was tracking him, a man stands accused of attacking street-view cars with Molotov cocktails and shooting up the advertising company's headquarters. So reports the Associated Press, which notes that
Arts & Entertainment New App Wants To Be The Airbnb For Hot Tubs, Backyards Have we reached peak app in this our pretty clearly bubbly tech economy of 2016? Some people are still going to tell you no, but I'm here to tell you, and them, about
SF News Apple Wants Answers About How The FBI Hacked That iPhone Apple remains in the dark about how a federally contracted "outside party" believed to be Israeli mobile forensics specialists Cellebrite succeeded in circumventing the security protections in the iPhone 5C in order to
SF News Google Might Be Uploading Your Photos Without Your Knowledge Your Android phone might be uploading your photos to Google without you knowing it. A journalist at the Nashville Business Journal discovered this strange quirk of the Google Photos app, and showed how
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
misc Gavin Newsom, Alice Waters, Others Are Inadvertently Leaking Their Exact Locations on Instagram Many Instagram users may not realize they are making their exact whereabouts public whenever they post pictures with the photo-sharing app .Some people who do not realize this are famous. After seeing Fusion’
SF News Notorious Google Glass User Had Multiple Restraining Orders Against Her The story around Google's most divisive beta tester Sarah Slocum continues to unravel this week. Today, SF Weekly reports that Slocum's own mother took out a restraining order against her in 2011. The
