Who knew? Microphones respond to light waves as well as sound waves. This allows hackers to attack voice-assistant technologies such as Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant, sometimes from a considerable distance.
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Category: Privacy
Location, location, location history
Who knew? Turning off Location History on Google doesn’t actually turn off location history. That, at least, is the basis[…]
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The Dark Side of Facebook
“The biggest surveillance-based enterprise in the history of mankind.” In a hugely popular post titled The Ultimate Retaliation: Pranking my[…]
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Smartphones: The Abuser in Your Pocket
The first three questions in the Am I In An Abusive Relationship questionnaire take on a whole new meaning if[…]
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The Spyingest Windows Ever
Windows 10 is without doubt the “spyingest” Windows ever. Visit Settings > Privacy and you’ll find 25 separate privacy settings,[…]
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Web of Spies
How to check out who is secretly checking you out Lightbeam is a simple browser add-on for Firefox that lets[…]
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The iPhone hack: What you need to know
A few days ago, one of Google’s security teams called Project Zero revealed a chilling and truly massive hack of[…]
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True Privacy Tales – The AOL search data release
What could be more innocuous than a search engine interface? They’re simple, clean, uncluttered, with that empty text box almost[…]
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True Privacy Tales – Targeted Marketing
In 2011, an irate father marched into his local Target store and demanded to know why the second-largest discount chain[…]
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10 disturbing quotes about Facebook
I’ve seen and heard very little about the Cambridge Analytica scandal here in New Zealand, even though the data of[…]
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