Verizon tracks you using their secret cookies but doesn’t want the government to be able to subpoena their offshore servers which store data from their US customers.
What gives?
Maybe they’re angling for Kim Dotcom’s or Dread Pirate Robert’s business.
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Online ad company Turn uses tracking cookies that come back to life after Verizon users have deleted them. Turn’s services are used by everyone from Google to Facebook.
If you’re surprised, you haven’t been reading Biteme close enough. Like Google tricks Internet Explorer into accepting tracking cookies and We’re boned: Google bypassed Apple Safari privacy.
Hat tip to MrMild.
Zombie Cookie: The Tracking Cookie That You Can’t Kill – ProPublica.
The University of Maryland is using the ‘deep learning’ technique to teach robots how to cook. The researchers at the university gathered data from 88 YouTube cooking videos and turned it into cooking commands the robot can execute.
Good news: Robots will soon be cooking your food, the chain restaurants will save money, and the robot manufacturers will make out like crazy.
Bad news: We’ll be taxed to support the chefs and cooks that the robots will put out of work.
Robots learn how to cook with YouTube videos – NY Daily News.
When exHizzoner Bloomberg was in control of the program to overhaul the 911 system in New York City, he made millionaires out of scores of tech consultants. The result? The $2 billion project is millions over budget and years behind schedule.
The new guy, de Blasio, has cut three quarters of the consultants and brought supervision of the project in-house.
It may or may not go better, but it sure ain’t gonna go worse.
City takes control of flawed 911 system overhaul – NY Daily News.
If you want the new stronger encryption being added to iPhones, Obama’s Department of Justice considers you a criminal. Gone is the presumption that ordinary citizens should be free from government snooping and gone is the requirement of a warrant. If you’re not a crook, just hand over all your data to the gummint and trust that they won’t misuse it.
Beefed up iPhone crypto will lead to a child dying, DOJ warned Apple execs | Ars Technica.
You know what Scientology does to its opponents: it declares them “fair game” and uses investigations, character assassination, legal action and infiltration to eventually destroy them.
That’s what Uber senior vice president Emil Michael wants to do to journalists who write unflattering things about his company. According to BuzzFeed, Michael “. . . suggested that the company should consider hiring a team of opposition researchers to dig up dirt on its critics in the media — and specifically to spread details of the personal life of a female journalist who has criticized the company.”
Creepy, huh? But Uber apparently is even creepier than that, sometimes using the travel logs of their journalist customers to spy on them.
In fact, the general manager of Uber NYC accessed the profile of a BuzzFeed News reporter, Johana Bhuiyan, to make points in the course of a discussion of Uber policies. At no point in the email exchanges did she give him permission to do so.”
Sure, all the New Technology companies spy on you to make money. But now you have to worry that they’re spying on you to fuck you over.
We all know how Ted Cruz is fighting against net neutrality. Oh, you didn’t know? Well Cruz thinks it’s a good idea for your cable company or ISP to decide which programs come to you at full speed and which are throttled. No doubt you’ll be seeing infomercials in HD while things you actually WANT to see — like news and porn, concerts and porn, how-to-videos and more porn — will stream all jaggedy-assed.
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Several cellphone providers have been tracking their users’ Internet activities by adding “supercookies” to cellphone transmissions. The providers say that it’s just for normal business purposes, but the truth is that the trove of data they’re amassing is of enormous value to law enforcement in their struggle to stay ahead of the bad guys.
Because of the negative publicity that followed the disclosure of this cellphone tracking, as well as pressure from self-appointed Internet watchdogs like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AT&T has caved and is no longer collecting the data.
The good news is that the Department of Justice has stepped into the breach. The DOJ now has a fleet of airplanes that act as decoy cell towers. Say you use Verizon, and the DOJ wants to see what you’re up to — they have their planes send out the same signals that real Verizon towers use, so that your phone connects to their network instead of Verizon’s. That way, the government can capture everything you do on your phone.
As for privacy, the government assures us that, if you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.
AT&T stops adding Web tracking codes on cellphones | The Augusta Chronicle.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher have registered a whole bunch of anti-Bloomberg domain names such as:
I suppose they could be working for Bloomberg though, since the names are registered to the law firm and not to ExHizzoner, they could easily turn around and blackmail him.
In any event, should you want to get in on the fun, BloombergBites.com is still available.
New York City Mayor Di Blasio has issued a strong condemnation, through his police commissioner, of the encryption software that will come with the new Google and Apple smartphones.
Apparently Di Blasio thinks that you wouldn’t care about his police snooping through your stuff if you haven’t committed a crime.
And for that, Di Blasio can Bite Me.
NYPD Commissioner Bratton vows to push against Apple, Google smartphone encryption – NY Daily News.