Tag: Data

Shocking revelations of a meeting between Zuckerberg and Hancock

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The big takeaway is Mark Zuckerberg personally threatening Hancock with withdrawing investment in the UK in favour of another European country. Shockingly the threat appears to work. Rather than standing up to Zuckerberg, Hancock instead offers a “new beginning” and a tone shift from “threatening regulation to encouraging collaborative working to ensure legislation is proportionate and innovation-friendly”.

Shocking revelations of a meeting between Zuckerberg and Hancock

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Mark Zuckerberg threatened to pull UK investment in secret meeting with Matt Hancock

Appeals court schedules Dec. 14 hearing on blocked U.S. TikTok new user ban

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Appeals court schedules Dec. 14 hearing on blocked U.S. TikTok new user ban

A federal appeals court said on Wednesday it will hear oral arguments on Dec. 14 on the government’s appeal of an order that blocked a ban on Apple Inc and Alphabet’s Google offering TikTok for download in U.S. app stores.

Reuters politicizing it by pointing out that three of the judges “were nominated by previous Democratic presidents.”

A Short Comment on a Big Danger — “Internet of Things”

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

A Short Comment on a Big Danger

The US Air Force’s Research Lab (yes, it has its own lab) has recently signed a contract to test new software of a company called SignalFrame, a Washington DC wireless tech company. The company’s new software is able to access smartphones, and from your phone jump off to access any other wireless or bluetooth device in the near vicinity. To quote from the article today in the Wall St. Journal, the smartphone is used “as a window onto usage of hundreds of millions of computers, routers, fitness trackers, modern automobiles and other networked devices, known collectively as the ‘Internet of Things’.”

Related:

Next Step in Government Data Tracking Is the Internet of Things

U. S. government agencies from the military to law enforcement have been buying up mobile-phone data from the private sector to use in gathering intelligence, monitoring adversaries and apprehending criminals.

H/T: The New Dark Age

U.S. Government Contractor Embedded Software in Apps to Track Phones

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

U.S. Government Contractor Embedded Software in Apps to Track Phones
Anomaly Six has ties to military, intelligence agencies and draws location data from more than 500 apps with hundreds of millions of users

In the data drawn from apps, each cellphone is typically represented by an alphanumeric identifier that isn’t linked to the name of the cellphone’s owner. But the movement patterns of a phone over time can allow analysts to deduce its ownership—for example, where the phone is located during the evenings and overnight is likely where the phone-owner lives.