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Lawsuit says Google tracks phone users regardless of privacy settings
By Jonathan Stempel   www.reuters.com  TECHNOLOGY NEWSAUGUST 20, 2018 / 10:11 AM / 2 DAYS AGO 

(Reuters) - Google has been accused in a lawsuit of illegally tracking the movements of millions of iPhone and Android phone users even when they use a privacy setting to prevent it.  LINK
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Hey Google, Don't be evil!  

 
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Back in the golden era of cartoons before they became all PC and woosified.  

 
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Biometrics scanner catches impostor at U.S. airport on just third day of use
By Hillary Grigonis    August 24, 2018

A biometric facial comparison system flagged a traveler using a fake passport — less than three days after the system was installed. LINK
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Very impressive.  I wonder where they get scans to compare parameters with?  I guess from the electronic photos taken when entering the U.S. previously.  

 
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The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — and Won

By Nicholas Confessore   www.nytimes.com    Aug. 14, 2018

Mining personal data has become a trillion-dollar business — which is why activists are pushing laws to curb the practice, and why Facebook and other companies are desperate to stop them.  LINK 
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Great, great NY Times article.  This grassroots effort to pass a California referendum that limits user data collection ties directly into the Cambridge Analytica scandal LINK,  the resulting plummet of Facebook stock price, and Donald Trump's re-election campaign.  Given the implications there has been surprisingly little media coverage.  Heh.  Go figure.   :nanalama

 
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