Insurance companies want to add devices to your car that can track your movements and monitor your driving. A new technology called telematics lets insurance companies see how you drive so they can tailor policies to fit your needs. “Now ...
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Police Urge Citizens: Register Your iPhones
Uniformed New York police officers have been pitchmen for Apple in recent years, even asking citizens to register devices with the police department and turning over personal information. Officers in uniform were caught handing out flyers to subway riders and ...
Read More »School Tells Dad: Pay $10,000 To Access Your Child’s Personal Data
A Nevada school is charging a dad thousands of dollars to get access to the school’s personal data on his own son. When the father of four attempted to convince the state board of education to share multiple years of ...
Read More »Hacker Turns Baby Monitor Into Real Life Nightmare
A scary baby monitor hacker caused an Ohio family to awaken in horror and run to the nursery to protect their bundle of joy. Adam and Heather Schreck and their 10-month-old daughter were sound asleep one night in April until ...
Read More »Obama Pushing National Internet ID To Surf the Web?
The Obama administration is creating an “identity ecosystem” on the Internet that some say will lead to government-issued IDs necessary to browse the web. The process, if approved, would reportedly replace all personalized passwords on “sensitive” accounts with one form ...
Read More »Is The Post Office Mining Your Personal Data?
The United States Postal Service (USPS) wants to collect data about your personal life and sell it for profit, according to a chief marketer. Data mining is one of just several schemes the money losing agency has hatched in an ...
Read More »The License Plate Scanner Error That Nearly Got An Innocent Driver Shot
License plate scanners have been a hotly debated topic due to concerns about an intrusion on privacy, and a recent police stop in Kansas will only add to those fears. Prairie Village attorney Mark Molner told local media that a ...
Read More »Your Local Police Now Using NSA Spying Tactics
It is not just federal agencies that may be violating your constitutional rights. Some local police and sheriff’s departments have surveillance operations as sophisticated as those at the NSA. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is deploying an array of ...
Read More »Frightening Email Spy Tool Newest Threat To Privacy
Perhaps you should be leery of some Gmail email users. A new free plugin lets Gmail users know when an email they sent is open – without the recipient even knowing. Called Streak, the plugin can even enable users to ...
Read More »Finally: An Off-The-Grid Smartphone That Protects Privacy
With today’s reality of NSA spying and corporate snooping, a new smartphone seeks to shield users’ data from prying eyes. Mike Janke, a former Navy SEAL sniper, founded an Android-based smartphone called Blackphone, which guards privacy – credit card information, ...
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