Category: Security

Uber sues LA’s Dept. of Transportation for warrantless record requests

Post author By Randall
Post date March 17, 2020
Categories In business, data, Data Privacy, electronic communications privacy act, gear, jump, la, ladot, lawsuit, location data, los angeles, los angeles department of transportation, Privacy, real-time data, Scooter, Security, sex, Tech, Transportation, Uber, uber jump

[ad_1] LA’s Department of Transportation already uses real-time data from several rivals of Uber’s scooter service, such as Lyft, Lime and Spin. The city mandated compliance with its “Mobility Data Specification” plan, which is similar to programs in other cities like Seattle and Austin. The organization says that it needs such data for city planning […]

Uber Eats waives delivery fees for over 100,000 independent restaurants

Post author By Randall
Post date March 16, 2020
Categories In business, canada, coronavirus, covid-19, Delivery, delivery fees, fees, food and drink, food-and-drink, foodanddrink, gear, gig economy, independent, restaurants, Security, services, small business, Tech, Uber, us, waive

[ad_1] Uber Eats is also launching daily marketing campaigns to promote delivery from local restaurants, especially those that are new to the app. It will allow restaurants of all sizes to opt into daily payments on all Uber Eats orders, rather than weekly billing, and it has committed 300,000 free meals on Uber Eats to […]

Uber offers 14 days of financial assistance to drivers with COVID-19

Post author By Randall
Post date March 16, 2020
Categories In business, compensation, coronavirus, covid-19, drivers, financial assistance, gear, gig workers, medicine, pay, quarantine, ridesharing, Security, services, Tech, Transportation, two weeks, Uber

[ad_1] Because the amount of money that Uber drivers make varies so widely, Uber will base the financial assistance on a driver’s average daily earnings over the last six months. If they haven’t been driving for six months, Uber will average their earnings between their start date and March 6th. For instance, if a driver […]

The Morning After: Disney released ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ early

Post author By Randall
Post date March 14, 2020
Categories In av, business, Entertainment, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, Internet, Mobile, personal computing, personalcomputing, Politics, Security, Tech, themorningafter, Transportation

[ad_1] He’s a little busy elsewhere at the moment.Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft’s board of directors If you checked out of keeping up with the news a little early on Friday, you may have missed Bill Gates’ announcement. The Microsoft co-founder and Engadget reader has been increasingly focused on public health issues (like pandemics, […]

Google is building a website to coordinate coronavirus testing in the US

Post author By Randall
Post date March 13, 2020
Categories In coronavirus, Google, Internet, Politics, Security, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] There are no specifics at the moment regarding when the site will go live, but more details about the initiative are coming the evening of Sunday, March 15th, Vice President Mike Pence said. In a memo to Google employees seen by CNBC, CEO Sundar Pichai said the company’s life sciences arm, Verily, was working […]

Washington state approves stronger facial recognition regulations

Post author By Randall
Post date March 13, 2020
Categories In facial recognition, house, Security, senate, Tech, tomorrow, washington

[ad_1] The House and the Senate originally couldn’t agree on the language used for Senate Bill 6280. After a series of negotiations, though, they were able to decide on a final version of the bill, which the lawmakers say is “one of the first and most comprehensive laws to regulate facial recognition technology in the […]

Facebook and Twitter take down accounts linked to Russian troll farm

Post author By Randall
Post date March 12, 2020
Categories In 2020 election, elections, Facebook, gear, Instagram, Internet, internet research agency, Russia, Security, Social Media, Tech, Twitter

[ad_1] Though the social media accounts were using familiar tactics — spreading inflammatory memes in an effort to “sow discord” — the IRA went to new lengths to disguise its involvement. Rather than operating the accounts out of Moscow, as they did in 2016, the accounts were run by groups in Ghana and Nigeria, according […]

President Trump signs bill to help rural carriers replace Huawei gear

Post author By Randall
Post date March 12, 2020
Categories In carrier, China, gear, government, Huawei, Internet, law, Mobile, Politics, secure and trusted communications networks act, secure and trusted telecommunications networks act, Security, Tech, wireless, zte

[ad_1] The measure had bipartisan support in Congress and was expected to become law given the Trump administration’s eagerness to label Huawei a security threat. There are lingering concerns about the severity of this claimed threat. The US has been reluctant to provide public evidence that the Chinese government has used Huawei equipment for surveillance. […]

US House votes to extend FISA surveillance

Post author By Randall
Post date March 11, 2020
Categories In fisa, gear, Internet, Politics, Security, Tech

[ad_1] But the bill would do more than just extend the provisions’ validity. Since surveillance laws tend to raise privacy concerns, the bill would add new restrictions to the FISA court overseeing requests for surveillance warrants. It would also bring changes to FISA wiretaps in response to the backlash the feds got for wiretapping former […]

Whisper left users’ details exposed in an open database for years

Post author By Randall
Post date March 11, 2020
Categories In app, Security, Tech, whisper

[ad_1] Since the database included users’ age, and Whisper was a hit among teens, it would’ve been easy for bad actors to find underage users — especially since the records also contained the location coordinates of their last posts, which pointed to specific schools, neighborhoods and workplaces. WP says it found 1.3 million results when […]