Jan 19th 2020
This Week in Tech 754
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FBI vs Apple, Google vs Cookies, Biden vs CDA 230
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This Week's Stories:
- Mojo Vision: Augmented Reality contact lenses
- The face recognition company that will end privacy
- FBI vs Apple 2: Pensacola Boogaloo
- NOBUS: why the NSA's "NObody But US" theory of exploits fail
- Cable Haunt: critical vulnerability in many cable modems
- Apple and Google are cracking down on location privacy, and ad tech companies are unhappy
- Don't worry about your kids' phone use so much
- Google will kill 3rd-party cookies by 2022
- Verizon's "private" search engine
- The EU is not asking Apple to kill the lightning plug
- Our secret shame: the box of cords in our garage
- Digital hoarding: iTunes vs Gmail
- Amazon wants you to pay with a wave of your hand
- Sim swapping attacks: hacking customer service
- Joe Biden wants to repeal Section 230. This is dangerous.
- Sonos, Tile, and Pop Sockets testify against Google, Apple, and Amazon in Congress
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Links
- Apple Refused US Attorney General Bill Barr's Request To Unlock Pensacola Shooter's Phone
- Apple vs FBI: Pensacola Isn’t San Bernardino - Lawfare
- Report: The FBI recently unlocked an iPhone 11 Pro with GrayKey, raising more doubts about the Pensacola case - 9to5Mac
- Apple's new privacy features have further rattled the location-based ad market - Digiday
- How the Death of iTunes Explains the 2010s - The Atlantic
- No, the EU isn’t asking Apple to kill the Lightning cable - The Verge
- Google plans to drop Chrome support for tracking cookies by 2022
- Cash, Plastic or Hand? Amazon Envisions Paying With a Wave
- Academic research finds five US telcos vulnerable to SIM swapping attacks | ZDNet
- The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
- Google Hands Feds 1,500 Phone Locations In Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search
- Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
- Cable Haunt
- Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google bashed by smaller rivals at congressional antitrust hearing - The Washington Post
- Opinion | Joe Biden Says Age Is Just a Number - The New York Times
- This startup wants to put a tiny display on a contact lens
- Mojo Vision
- Panicking about your kids' phones? New research says don't.
- Yahoo parent Verizon promises it won’t track you with OneSearch, its new privacy-focused search engine
- Admit It: You Have a Box of Cords You’ll Never, Ever Use Again - WSJ
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