Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Selling Customers’ Location Data…
May 6, 2019
The news provides the first instance of individual telco customers pushing to be awarded damages after Motherboard revealed in January that AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint had all sold access to the real-time location of their customers’ phones to a network of middlemen companies, before ending up in the hands of bounty hunters. Motherboard previously paid a source $300 to successfully geolocate a T-Mobile phone through this supply chain of data...
The fine should be at a minimum as much as they made from the sale of this data, including advertising as well as the standard fine.
The US Air Force successfully tested a laser system to shoot down missiles. The system is designed to eventually be used on airplanes…
May 6, 2019
The laboratory highlights some of the advantages that such a system could bring to the table: it would be highly accurate and instantaneously hit targets, wouldn’t have a limited magazine, would allow pilots to re-aim to hit additional targets quickly, and might not be susceptible to traditional counter-measures, like flares or jamming devices. That said, the system likely won’t be fool-proof: weather could potentially interfere with its effectiveness...
A Dublin-based company plans to erect “mechanical trees” in the United States that will suck carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, in what may be prove to be biggest effort to remove the gas blamed for climate change from the atmosphere…
May 6, 2019
You're probably thinking "But natural trees do this already". True, but these machines seem to be at about 30 tons/year per tree. So a single tree does the job of about 15 acres of forest. The average person in the US emits 20 tons a year, so to offset that we would need 10 acres of forest per person. There's 7 acres of land per person in the US. We need 10 acres of forest per person to offset our current carbon usage, so if literally 100% of the US was forest (no cities, no farms, no desert, no roads, nothing else) we still wouldn't offset our carbon footprint. But then again, what if we build them upwards, like Singapore's garden skyscrapers? Just a thought.
Canada Border Services seizes lawyer’s phone, laptop for not sharing passwords…
May 6, 2019
Well there becomes a point where you have a blank phone for travel. Or back the contents up and reset it, then restore it once your across the border and have access to the internet...
Motherboard maker Super Micro is moving production away from China to avoid spying rumors…
May 6, 2019
Expansions include a new $65 million factory in northern Taiwan, located in the city of Taoyuan. There are also planned expansions within Silicon Valley, although specific details have not yet been shared...
Apple CEO Tim Cook says digital privacy ‘has become a crisis’…
May 6, 2019
Cook cited the vast amount of personal information available online when explaining why privacy has become such an important issue to address. "The people who track on the internet know a lot more about you than if somebody's looking in your window," he said. "A lot more."... Cook is known to be a vocal advocate for consumer privacy. In January, he published an op-ed in Time calling for government regulation that would make it more difficult for companies to collect data while providing more transparency for consumers...