Tag Archive for: Creepy

Apple and other tech giants slam anti-hacking bill for being creepy

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Apple (AAPL, Tech30), Salesforce (CRM, Tech30) and Twitter (TWTR, Tech30) have issued statements saying the bill is a bad idea. Even security giant Symantec (SYMC) refuses to support the bill. Why? Because CISA doesn’t only help companies stop hackers.
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10 creepy mobile apps that make spying easier

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This week, the U.S. Justice Department indicted the CEO of StealthGenie on charges that the company’s apps violate federal laws against invading others’ privacy, an arrest the government has called the first of its kind. However, StealthGenie is hardly the only company that has developed tools that turn communications devices into tools for spying, stalking, and digging up information on other people. Here are 10 of the creepiest mobile apps, some of which are still available for download, but might not be for long if the prosecution against StealthGenie is successful.

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No reasonable expectation of privacy when third parties cross the creepy line?

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There’s a “creepy line” when tech conveniences and capabilities seem to push too far into privacy rights; yet not everyone can be trusted to decide whether or not new technology used by the government crosses the “creepy line” and if Fourth Amendment protections should kick in. That includes SCOTUS, according to a former DHS official, who reduced the Supreme Court Justices to “nine Baby…
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Creepy T-shirts designed to baffle Facebook facial-recognition software

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How do you fight facial recognition? You could always swap out your profile picture for that of your pet, or – this option just in – buy a T-shirt printed with creepily distorted faces of celebrity impersonators, designed to give Facebook’s facial recognition technology a migraine.
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