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Have your tax returns, Nest videos, and medical info been made public?
When we use browsers to make medical appointments, share tax returns with accountants, or access corporate intranets, we usually trust that the pages we access will remain private. DataSpii, a newly documented privacy issue in which millions of people's browsing histories have been collected and exposed, shows just how much about us is revealed when that assumption is turned on its head.
DataSpii begins with browser extensions—available mostly for Chrome but in more limited cases for Firefox as well—that, by Google's account, had as many as 4.1 million users. These extensions collected the URLs, webpage titles, and in some cases the embedded hyperlinks of every page that the browser user visited. Most of these collected Web histories were then published by a fee-based service called Nacho Analytics, which markets itself as "God mode for the Internet" and uses the tag line "See Anyone's Analytics Account."
[...] According to the researcher who discovered and extensively documented the problem, this non-stop flow of sensitive data over the past seven months has resulted in the publication of links to:
- Home and business surveillance videos hosted on Nest and other security services
- Tax returns, billing invoices, business documents, and presentation slides posted to, or hosted on, Microsoft OneDrive, Intuit.com, and other online services
- Vehicle identification numbers of recently bought automobiles, along with the names and addresses of the buyers
- Patient names, the doctors they visited, and other details listed by DrChrono, a patient care cloud platform that contracts with medical services
- Travel itineraries hosted on Priceline, Booking.com, and airline websites
- Facebook Messenger attachments and Facebook photos, even when the photos were set to be private.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 21 2019, @08:19AM (2 children)
The Democratic Party before around the middle of the 1960s was a very different animal than it is today. Around the 1960s was the Southern Strategy [rationalwiki.org] that just about completely realigned the parties. Before then, the Republican Party was still thought of as the party of Abraham Lincoln and the "War of the Northern Aggression", but after prominent Democrats like Kennedy and even more so Johnson began to advocate civil rights, a lot of the southern Democrats that once formed the core of the party defected to the Republicans. The 1964 election was perhaps the turning point, as it saw Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater win five states in the Deep South, a traditionally Democratic bulwark, and oddly enough, apart from his own home state of Arizona, those were the only states he won. And Malcolm X also had this to say about Goldwater:
Malcolm X did not live to see the Southern Strategy come to its full completion in the 1968 and 1972 elections, at the time he died in 1965 it was just getting started.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 21 2019, @08:51AM (1 child)
Yeah, I keep hearing that version of history. "Complete realignment" and all that. But, what do you see when you look past all the smoke and mirrors? You see D's willing to pay billions, to keep Darkie on the plantation, and the R's wanting to bring the black man into the work force, where he can be productive.
Discounting Hollywood celebs, and know-nothing singers, it appears that successful black people prefer the R strategy over being kept on the plantation. The masses still believe that bullshit about reparations, and the country owes them something (or everything?).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 23 2019, @11:27PM
But having grown up around strongly R family members, the majority of the conservative ones espoused phrenology and similar ideological views, used mexicans, blacks, russians and others as cheap often illegal labor to undercut 'legitimate' paid labor, and generally sided strongly with the aforementioned flip in party loyalties based on racial, economic, social, and religious politics.