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  1. Re:Violation of EU GPDR and Canada/US data treatie on US Cell Carriers Are Selling Access To Your Real-Time Phone Location Data (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong, you are subject to the treaty that overrides state or national laws, it's in the US constitution even.

  2. Re:Violation of EU GPDR and Canada/US data treatie on US Cell Carriers Are Selling Access To Your Real-Time Phone Location Data (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Or an EU or Canadian citizen working in, or living in the US.

  3. Violation of EU GPDR and Canada/US data treaties on US Cell Carriers Are Selling Access To Your Real-Time Phone Location Data (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Any sane lawyer could sue all these telecom companies under both the EU GPDR and the US/Canada data treaties.

    Your rights don't end at the border, unless you're only an American.

  4. Excellent idea, given the implications of change on London Plans To Ban Junk Food Advertising On Public Transport (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember, we all subsidize the weak-willed tube riders who drink fancy alcohol and munch on crisps instead of live an upright life.

  5. 120 million for first call on Florida Man Behind 100 Million Robocalls Hit With $120 Million FCC Fine (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, but where are the fines for all the other calls?

    I hear GITMO is nice this time of year.

  6. There are more agencies than you realize on Lawmakers Move To Block Government From Ordering Digital 'Back Doors' (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    There aren't two. There aren't three.

    Focus on the ones you know about and the ones you don't know about are going to require backdoors anyway, and just make stuff happen to corporations that don't provide them.

  7. Re:They already are controlled by inaudible comman on Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant Can Be Controlled By Inaudible Commands (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Am I living in Douglas Adams's reality, where white mice are really running experiments on humans?

    Of course not.

    They're brown mice. Kind of a chestnut brown. The white mice thing was a ruse so you'd choose the wrong observers.

  8. Cut power to the microphones on Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant Can Be Controlled By Inaudible Commands (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The only thing that will disable this is cutting power to the internal microphone. Windows themselves are one of the ways we used to "hear" conversations, typing (which can also be picked up by your cellphone and any device with a microphone, as well as nearby vibration sensors in your cellphone).

    Even inaudible humming frequently can be translated.

    Just don't install devices in your tin foil shielded and sound baffled escape room, and make sure it's not just airgapped but it's also without fans.

    (thinks about people failing to get how air works, or what sound is, and how useless all of this is to virtually everyone)

  9. Is it Space Battleship Yamamoto? on One of the Milky Way's Fastest Stars Is an Invader From Another Galaxy (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Dang. This could get messy for our galaxy.

  10. We have always loved Soma on Social Media Copies Gambling Methods 'To Create Psychological Cravings' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Soma makes you happy.
    Until it makes you sad.
    Emotions cause stress.
    Stress causes clicks.
    Clicks allow us to steal your privacy, which is protected by the GPDR worldwide and the Canadian and Washington State constitutions.
    Theft is good.

  11. It's actually gotten worse on UK Police Say 92 Percent False Positive Facial Recognition Is No Big Deal (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Used to be a 90 percent false positive rate. My guess is they don't understand what they're doing, but like arresting people for not being white.

  12. Yeah, but the work is building igloos.

    We built log cabins and we liked it!

  13. I think you mean they collect the data, process it into metadata, and store the metadata.

    They don't really care about the actual data per se.

  14. Think of it like a restaurant chain on Tesla Earnings Show Record Revenues With Record Losses (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that rapid growth can cause losses, and offering multiple dishes (vehicle and panels and batteries) can cause confusion and reduce profits if the components or labor increase in price (tariffs, supply constraints, training, building fabrication facilities).

    Technically, you'd be better off with a Chinese plug-in electric truck for $4500 than a Tesla truck, or even a Chevy Bolt made for Canada or Mexico than a Tesla car, but you're paying a premium for a premium "dining experience". The lobster you eat is still lobster, if you eat it at Denny's or at the Space Needle. But the cost is different.

  15. Business Administration or MBA on Ask Slashdot: What Should I Study? · · Score: 1

    They also have MBIT if you want to stay in IT.

    Money is the root of all Google.

  16. Backdoors in devices = quartering troops in homes on Tech Giants Hit by NSA Spying Slam Encryption Backdoors (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Simple Constitutional Argument.

    There's a reason why you don't want backdoors to be open to the government.

  17. Not really. We just run it thru the translate apps. It's how we're scraping all the Chinese tech journals.

  18. Clears records, not the metadata on Facebook Promises Privacy Tool 'Clear History' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    All they care about is the metadata, and they already stored that.

    This won't delete that.

    Still a violation of Canadian Constitutional Right of Privacy and EU Right of Privacy, and FB knows that, which is why they have different platforms there.

  19. There's more, little brother on Twitter Sold Data Access To Cambridge Analytica-Linked Researcher (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    There's much more.

    It's not just Twitter and FB, and the numbers they're admitting are far smaller than the numbers that they actually have released data on.

    Far, far smaller.

  20. Copyright 17 years patent 17 years on US Keeps China, Puts Canada on IP Priority Watch List (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Stick to the Constitutional requirement, not this insane LIFETIME plus 90 years fake US version of copyright and patent that includes "business processes".

  21. I hate subsidizing electric cards. For example, blade computers from China should be cheaper, because they have extra spying in them to help pay for their cost, so removing the subsidization of electric cards would level the blade field.

  22. says it all.

    Time to end the tax exemptions, subsidies, exclusions, and deferrments for fossil fuels so that there is a level playing field for renewables - fossil fuels get 90 percent of the Dept of Energy subsidies that aren't for nuclear weapons.

  23. All smart devices, actually on Researchers Hacked Amazon's Alexa To Spy On Users, Again (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    We can access and turn on all listening (by which we can detect what you type, how you walk, who you are) on all smartphones, all smart TVs, all smart video boxes, pretty much anything with a microphone and/or a camera, no matter how you switch it off.

    Even masking will only reduce the vibration, by the way, we can still hear you quite well. It does obscure the camera, however.

    And it's uploaded to the cloud without you realizing it. Even when you "turn it off".

    About the only way to turn off the microphones is to cut their power.

    Yes, that includes a certain elderly person's cellphones. We play his recordings at parties, with a dubstep backbeat. Hilarious.

  24. What could possibly go wrong on CIA Plans To Replace Spies With AI (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    HUMINT tends to actually understand what's going on, while AI believes what it thinks it sees and the apparent patterns it's presented with. You can fool an AI fairly easily, because they're designed that way, but using an AI to add data for HUMINT can also horribly go wrong. Just ask anyone in: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, pretty much all of Africa, etc.

  25. Nations Corporate Individual on Ask Slashdot: Do We Need a New Word For Hacking? · · Score: 1

    The question is not just why you do it, but who you do it for and why.