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When everything can be hacked, where do we turn?

When everything can be hacked, where do we turn?

Written by on September 30, 2016 in Opinion with 0 Comments

Everything can be hacked. Some things more than others. As we have said before people who make kettles, for instance, make kettles. They don’t think about kettle security issues, even when their product team says the kettle needs to be ‘connected’. So they do whatever is needed to make the kettle connectable. What this means […]

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Facebook loses first round in suit over storing biometric data

Facebook loses first round in suit over storing biometric data

Written by on May 6, 2016 in News with 0 Comments

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc lost the first round in a court fight against some of its users who sued the social networking company, alleging it “unlawfully” collected and stored users’ biometric data derived from their faces in photographs. The judge presiding over the case in a California federal court on Thursday turned down Facebook’s motion […]

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