This week: NZ ISP offers customers free VPN for UK, US Netflix Access; Harper Government’s Flawed Wireless Shakedown; Facebook selling Advertisers Your Browsing Data; How to Stop Facebook from Tracking Your Browsing History TechGage | New Zealand ISP Offers Customers Free VPN to Help them Access US & UK Netflix Catalogs Living in Canada, I know ...
This week: Canadian Government Tries to Open Competition with Wireless Spectrum Auction; US Supreme Court Rules Phones Can’t be searched Without Warrant; Google Begins Erasing Links for Searches in Europe Globe and Mail | Spectrum auction to push mergers of small wireless players The federal government will announce Monday that it is offering coveted chunks of ...
This week: DoJ Brings Down Botnet; OpenSSL bug worse than Heartbleed?; Tech leads to more, not fewer, jobs; Apple improves location privacy with iOS 8 Businessweek | Federal Agents Just Brought Down the World’s Worst Botnet An international operation led by the Department of Justice has disabled a hacking network that generated losses of more than ...
This week: Canadians Lax on Privacy; Facebook Wants to Listen to you; Vancouver a New Tech Hub; Canada Hit by PoS Infection; Canada Relaxes Flight Restrictions on Mobile Globe and Mail | Canadians are lax on privacy, Senate committee hears Canadians are “stupid” and post far too much information online, a former head of the ...
This week: Health Benefits of Electric Car; Facebook Privacy; DARPA’s new projects; Secret History of Hypertext; The Most Secure Email in the Universe The Atlantic | Forget Saving the Planet, Driving an Electric Car Will Save Your Life The failure to persuade a sizeable percentage of Americans that climate change poses a clear and present danger ...
This week: NSA Runs into California Roadblock; State of the Internet: Lousy?; How to get a job at Google; Euro Court rules Google must respect right to “be forgotten” Reuters | NSA data-gathering may run into California roadblock The federal government would need a warrant from a judge if it wants the cooperation of California ...
This week: Hundreds of Thousands of Canadians under Surveillance; Canada’s Digital Strategy: Telus pledges Infrastructure Billions; US Judge says Email warrants valid Overseas Toronto Star | Government agencies seek telecom user data at ‘jaw-dropping’ rates OTTAWA—Government agencies are asking telecoms and social media companies to turn over Canadians’ user data at “jaw-dropping” rates, with nearly 1.2 ...
This week: Serious Flaw in OpenID, OAuth logins; Towards Independent Internet Governance; Microsoft patches XP Explorer flaw; Canadians Battling for Tech “World Cup” CNET | Serious security flaw in OAuth, OpenID discovered Following in the steps of the OpenSSL vulnerability Heartbleed, another major flaw has been found in popular open-source security software. This time, the holes have ...
This week: Internet Explorer Vulnerability; Independent Net Governance Step Closer; Ottawa threatens to cut Telus out of Wireless Auction; Goodbye to Net Neutrality? Reuters | U.S., UK advise avoiding Internet Explorer until bug fixed (Reuters) – The U.S. and UK governments on Monday advised computer users to consider using alternatives to Microsoft Corp’s Internet Explorer browser until ...
This week: Flaws in Heartbleed Detection; Tablet Maker brings Hope to Haiti; BC’s Privacy Commissioner Unhappy about Mental Health Disclosures; Flaws in Digital Privacy Act; Google the Lobbyist The Guardian | Heartbleed: 95% of detection tools ‘flawed’, claim researchers Free web tools and not picking up the vulnerability, leaving consumer data exposed. Some tools designed to ...
