Guess which of your possessions is the most active at collecting your personal information for analysis and resale? Your car. According to experts at the Mozilla Foundation, neither smart watches, smart speakers, surveillance cameras, nor any other gadgets analyzed by the Privacy Not Included project come close to the data collection volumes of modern automobiles. This project … [Read more...] about Spies on wheels: how carmakers collect and then resell information
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New Attack Let Attacker Collect and Spoof Browser’s Digital Fingerprints
A "potentially devastating and hard-to-detect threat" could be abused by attackers to collect users' browser fingerprinting information with the goal of spoofing the victims without their knowledge, thus effectively compromising their privacy. Academics from Texas A&M University dubbed the attack system "Gummy Browsers," likening it to a nearly 20-year-old "Gummy Fingers" … [Read more...] about New Attack Let Attacker Collect and Spoof Browser’s Digital Fingerprints