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Security Master Launch Signals Smarter Privacy and Mobile Security
CIO Today SAN FRANCISCO, May 25, 2017 — Cheetah Mobile Inc. (NYSE: CMCM), the leading developer of mission-critical mobile utility and security applications, today announced the launch of Security Master. Security Master is the next generation of CM Security, … |
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A mobile advertising company that tracked the locations of hundreds of millions of consumers without consent has agreed to pay $ 950,000 (£640,000) in civil penalties and implement a privacy program to settle charges that it violated federal law.
The US Federal Trade Commission alleged in a complaint filed Wednesday that Singapore-based InMobi undermined phone users’ ability to make informed decisions about the collection of their location information. While InMobi claimed that its software collected geographical whereabouts only when end users provided opt-in consent, the software in fact used nearby Wi-Fi signals to infer locations when permission wasn’t given, FTC officials alleged. InMobi then archived the location information and used it to push targeted advertisements to individual phone users.
Specifically, the FTC alleged, InMobi collected nearby basic service set identification addresses, which act as unique serial numbers for wireless access points. The company, which thousands of Android and iOS app makers use to deliver ads to end users, then fed each BSSID into a “geocorder” database to infer the phone user’s latitude and longitude, even when an end user hadn’t provided permission for location to be tracked through the phone’s dedicated location feature.
American Enterprise Institute |
Chinese economic espionage: Mixed signals at year's end
American Enterprise Institute As 2015 comes to an end, some three months after the September summit in which the US and China agreed not to “knowingly” conduct cyber-related operations to steal intellectual property – including trade secrets – mixed signals cloud any judgment as to … |
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Defense Department's tech investing signals Silicon Valley's importance in …
Phys.Org "When it became clearly apparent that dealing with information warfare and cybersecurity and online protection was going to be a big defense issue, and that was a domain that the military was going to have an active part in, then it became impossible … |