Google voice to do away with voicemail-to-text

As reported on Cnet Google will apparently be removing a Google Voice feature over carriers’ efforts to fight robocalls. In a message shared on Twitter by journalist Brian Krebs, the company has seemingly begun alerting users that by the end …

Defcon News: Vulnerable Windows Drivers

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Another privacy story: Facebook transcribes audio chats

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/08/13/200217/facebook-paid-contractors-to-transcribe-users-audio-chats Facebook has been paying hundreds of outside contractors to transcribe clips of audio from users of its services, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of the work.

FBI to monitor and collect Social Media Data

I am sure this has been going on for awhile, but now it is being ramped up. https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-seeks-to-monitor-facebook-oversee-mass-social-media-data-collection/ The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is planning to aggressively harvest information from Facebook and Twitter, a move which is likely to …

Articles in the works

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Your phones are always watching and tracking

https://wgme.com/news/nation-world/racist-graffiti-cellphones-wi-fi-glenelg-md Four Maryland teenagers sneaked onto their school’s property the night before graduation last year and covered it in racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic graffiti. The Washington Post described how they got caught in a Tuesday story . It says they …