Singapore’s Contact Tracing Wearable Causes Privacy Backlash
Thousands have signed a petition that underscores data privacy issues with Singapore’s newly announced contact-tracing wearable, in development.
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Smashing Security podcast #181: Anti-cybercrime ads, tricky tracing, and a 5G Bioshield
/in Computer SecurityPolice are hoping to stop kids becoming cybercriminals by bombarding them with Google Ads, phishers rub their hands in glee at the NHS track and trace service, and just how does a nano-layer of quantum holographic catalyzer technology make a USB stick cost hundreds of pounds?
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast.
Utah Says No to Apple/Google COVID-19 Tracing; Debuts Startup App
/in Mobile Security“Healthy Together” app uses a raft of location data, including GPS, cell tower triangulation and Bluetooth, to pinpoint users and ID coronavirus hotspots.
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TalkTalk’s ex-CEO Dido Harding heads up the UK’s Coronavirus tracing app…
/in Computer SecurityImagine you’re the UK Government in the middle of the biggest crisis the country has faced since World War II.
How are you going to instill some confidence that citizens should install a new Coronavirus tracing app?