WASHINGTON — For about $50, you can get a smartphone with a high-definition display, fast data service and, according to security contractors, a secret feature: a backdoor that sends all your text messages to China every 72 hours. Security contractors recently discovered preinstalled software in some Android phones that monitors where users go, whom they…
A group of 11 professors at U.C. Berkeley have objected to a quietly installed cybersecurity program set up by the University of California system in response to a huge data breach last summer. Source: At Berkeley, a New Digital Privacy Protest – The New York Times
Mobile service provider Sprint will pay $2.95 million in civil penalties to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the company failed to give proper notice to consumers who were placed in a program for customers with lower credit scores and charged an extra monthly fee. Source: Sprint Will Pay $2.95 Million Penalty to Settle FTC…
Jay Edelson, the Class-Action Lawyer Who May Be Tech’s Least Friended Man – NYTimes.com.
Banking Start-Ups Adopt New Tools for Lending – NYTimes.com.
Mannequins are now digitally tracking UK shoppers Wired UK. Okay, so it’s really mannequins, but the Weeping Angels reference really fits since this is a UK article.
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