---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <58125EEE-91BB-48B1-BBE8-A950FC2B2F2E@roscom.com> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:37:04 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: No, you're not being paranoid. Sites really are watching your every move Sites log your keystrokes and mouse movements in real time, before you click submit. By Dan Goodin If you have the uncomfortable sense someone is looking over your shoulder as you surf the Web, you're not being paranoid. A new study finds hundreds of sites - including microsoft.com, adobe.com, and godaddy.com - employ scripts that record visitors' keystrokes, mouse movements, and scrolling behavior in real time, even before the input is submitted or is later deleted. Session replay scripts are provided by third-party analytics services that are designed to help site operators better understand how visitors interact with their Web properties and identify specific pages that are confusing or broken. As their name implies, the scripts allow the operators to re-enact individual browsing sessions. Each click, input, and scroll can be recorded and later played back. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/an-alarming-number-of-sites-employ-privacy-invading-session-replay-scripts/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20171122191625.GA2100@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:16:25 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Pro-net neutrality groups are planning protests at Verizon stores on December 7th By Colin Lecher As the FCC moves ahead with its plan to dismantle net neutrality protections, pro-net neutrality groups say they're planning protests at Verizon stores around the country on December 7th. "We'll demand that our members of Congress take action to stop Verizon's puppet FCC from killing net neutrality," the organizers write on a website dedicated to the protests. https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/22/16691324/verizon-store-net-neutrality-protests -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <FA002878-1D18-4542-BFAF-659087D507FE@roscom.com> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:28:13 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Google collects Android users' locations even when location services are disabled By Keith Collins Many people realize that smartphones track their locations. But what if you actively turn off location services, haven't used any apps, and haven't even inserted a carrier SIM card? Even if you take all of those precautions, phones running Android software gather data about your location and send it back to Google when they're connected to the internet, a Quartz investigation has revealed. https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locations-even-when-location-services-are-disabled/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20171123013554.GA17437@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:35:54 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: NY AG Investigating 'Massive Scheme' To Influence FCC On Net Neutrality With Fake Public Comments New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) says he has uncovered a "massive scheme" to influence the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in favor of repealing former President Obama's net neutrality rules by corrupting the agency's public comment system with hundreds of thousands of fake comments impersonating real Americans. In an open letter to Trump's FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, Schneiderman said the federal agency has not provided him with information "critical" to an investigation his office is conducting. The letter follows Pai's announcement on Tuesday that the FCC will vote to roll back Obama-era net neutrality rules that require internet service providers to treat all web traffic equally. https://theguardiansofdemocracy.com/ny-ag-investigating-massive-scheme-influence-fcc-net-neutrality-fake-public-comments/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <24F31055-520A-4AA6-BD8C-EE5875EC2C2D@roscom.com> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:25:04 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Uber paid hackers $100,000 to keep quiet about stealing your info from Uber By Alison Griswold In October 2016, hackers stole the personal data of 50 million riders and about 7 million drivers from Uber. Instead of reporting the breach, the company paid $100,000 to hackers to delete the data and keep quiet, in what became a yearlong cover-up. The breach, made public in an explosive new report from Bloomberg, led this week to the ousting of Uber's chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, and one of his deputies who worked to keep the attack quiet. https://qz.com/1135688/uber-data-breach-uber-paid-hackers-100000-to-keep-quiet-about-stealing-your-info-from-uber/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <AF8EFE83-3BD8-4F9D-A38E-B167F88C77F3@roscom.com> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:23:50 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: We Can't Trust Facebook To Regulate Itself We Can't Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself By Sandy Parakilas I led Facebook's efforts to fix privacy problems on its developer platform in advance of its 2012 initial public offering. What I saw from the inside was a company that prioritized data collection from its users over protecting them from abuse. As the world contemplates what to do about Facebook in the wake of its role in Russia's election meddling, it must consider this history. Lawmakers shouldn't allow Facebook to regulate itself. Because it won't. Facebook knows what you look like, your location, who your friends are, your interests, if you're in a relationship or not, and what other pages you look at on the web. This data allows advertisers to target the more than one billion Facebook visitors a day. It's no wonder the company has ballooned in size to a $500 billion behemoth in the five years since its I.P.O. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/opinion/facebook-regulation-incentive.html ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 23 Nov 2017