Privacy
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Nudie-run cinematographers rejoice. YouTube has today introduced a very handy new feature that enables users to blur out moving objects in videos after they're uploaded.
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Two skilled hackers have made a terrifying demonstration: an exploit that lets them remotely take control of just about any electronically controlled part of your internet-connected Chrysler, including the steering, throttle and brakes.
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We've all become used to facial recognition technology helping us to tag our friends in photos online. There may be times, however, that you don't want to be recognized like this. With that in mind, security firm AVG has unveiled a prototype pair of glasses that combat facial recognition systems.
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Security researcher GironSec has pulled Uber's Android app apart and discovered that it's sending a huge amount of personal data back to base – including your call and SMS logs.
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Researchers say potential security concerns around how smartphone apps access and use personal information could potentially be addressed through better consumer education and an easy to understand risk score for each app.
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A new software tool developed at Columbia University is providing valuable insights into how some very popular websites make use of the sensitive data they collect from their users.
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ScienceA team of scientists led by MIT has created a "visual microphone" that uses a computer algorithm to analyze and reconstruct audio signals from objects in a video image.
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Your phone's lock-screen is used to keep would-be snoopers out of your messages, but a new app turns this idea on its head. Once installed, LokLok allows friends to leave messages and drawings on each other's lock-screens. Two things seem certain: it will be great fun and it will all end in tears!
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Cozy Room is a personal isolation chamber allowing an individual to take some time away from prying eyes. By sitting in the high-backed leather chair and pulling yourself forward, you're encased in a small cubicle with everything you could need close to hand. Except human company, obviously.
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Casa 7A boasts a degree of sustainable design and even more luxury. The home features a layout that's largely open to the elements, yet still allows a degree of privacy thanks to its novel facade comprising sliding and pivoting timber screens at key areas.
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SGP Technologies has released updated tech specs for its Blackphone, a smartphone designed with user privacy in mind. The device was unveiled at Mobile World Congress in February as a secure smartphone for the mass market. It will feature an NVIDIA Tegra 4i mobile processor.
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While many of us worry about the ways in which Google Glass could be used to infringe on peoples' privacy, scientists in Germany have instead developed a process in which the high-tech eyewear could be used to keep shady characters from obtaining your PIN while you used an automated teller.
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