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Hong Kong has made it mandatory for all new arrivals to wear an "Electronic wristband" that links to a smartphone to provide location-tracking services, so that authorities can be sure they're observing COVID-19 quarantine requirements. Here's the fun part in the press release: "The staff at the communication centres set up by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer will check the location of people under quarantine from time to time and make surprise video calls to ensure that they are staying at their dwelling places."
Hong Kong has made it mandatory for all new arrivals to wear an "Electronic wristband" that links to a smartphone to provide location-tracking services, so that authorities can be sure they're observing COVID-19 quarantine requirements. Here's the fun part in the press release: "The staff at the communication centres set up by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer will check the location of people under quarantine from time to time and make surprise video calls to ensure that they are staying at their dwelling places."
The latest scheme includes a malicious Android tracker app that supposedly allows users to keep an eye on the spread of the virus, but locks victims' phone and demands money to unlock it. The DomainTools security research team is warning about a discovered a malicious domain distributing a fake Coronavirus outbreak tracker app, which will purportedly provide users tracking and statistical information about Covid-19 and heatmap visuals.
Google has seemingly stopped claiming an identifier it uses internally to track experimental features and variations in its Chrome browser contains no personally identifiable information. In February, Arnaud Granal, a software developer who works on a Chromium-based browser called Kiwi, claimed the X-client-data header, which Chrome sends to Google when a Google webpage has been requested, represents a unique identifier that can be used to track people across the web.
A suspected meth dealer is off the hook for at least one of the charges he's facing: that he "Stole" the GPS device that police stuck on his car to track his movements. So police applied for warrants to search both Heuring's home and his father's barn, where they suspected that Heuring had put the GPS device.
For researchers at testing outfit AV-Test, the SMA M2 kids’ smartwatch is just the tip of an iceberg of terrible security.
Ad-blockers have figured out a way to block the unblockable - a pernicious tracker technique that hides advertising networks in plain sight.
TrustArc, the leading privacy automation and intelligence platform provider, announces major updates to Nymity Awareness Tracker, the first compliance solution on the market to streamline...
Ad-tech arms race continues: DNS system exploited to silently follow folks around the web Developers working on open-source ad-blocker uBlock Origin have uncovered a mechanism for tracking web...
Mozilla has added another privacy tweak to Firefox version 70 - the ability to quickly see how often websites are tracking users.