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Senators call for investigation into Verizon phone 'supercookies' that tracked customers
2015-02-06 23:59:03| Telecom - Topix.net
Democratic senators on Friday called on federal regulators to investigate Verizon Wireless, the country's biggest mobile provider, for secretly inserting unique tracking codes into the Web traffic of its some 100 million customers. Data privacy experts have accused Verizon of violating consumers' privacy by using "supercookies," an identifying string of letters and numbers attached to each site visited on a person's mobile device.
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Landfill Odors Being Tracked Daily
2015-01-07 00:04:00| Waste Age
<a href="http://www.dailyindependent.com/">Daily Independent</a> Solid Waste Administrator Bill Fritz presented the Boyd County Fiscal Court with two maps providing updated information on odor complaints from the community concerning Big Run Landfill. read more
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Amory's history tracked in pictorial book
2014-12-07 12:47:11| Railroads - Topix.net
Amory Regional Museum Director Bo Miller and museum archivist Sue Brown have explored Amory's development from its beginnings at Cotton Gin Port to its stake as a railroad trading post and the town that flourished from there. Miller and Brown said that the very reason Amory is even on the map is the St. Louis-San Francisco "Frisco" Railroad, which is now the Burlington Northern Santa Fe.
Now That Cars Have Black Boxes, Are You Being Tracked?
2014-09-26 22:11:51| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
Who gets access to the info in your vehicles event data recorder? A black box, formally known as an event data recorder (EDR), and informally known as a narc-in-the-box, logs a variety of data regarding the operation of the vehicle in which it's installed. The good news is that EDRs do not (yet) track your location, nor do they beam real-time information to feds, cops, carmakers, or mothers-in-law. That's what your smartphone is for. READ MORE about the EDR The Article Now That Cars Have Black Boxes, Are You Being Tracked? appeared first on Automotive Digest.
Google launches 'cookie choices' site to let users know how they're being tracked
2014-07-01 13:51:30| InfoWorld: Top News
Google has launched a new site, CookieChoices.org, to help visitors of European sites learn more about the digital breadcrumbs they leave behind through cookies. The site includes code that publishers can use to incorporate notifications into their own sites and apps. The notifications could take the form of pop-up alerts or a bar at the top of the screen, ostensibly to give details like the visitor's browsing history or profile information.
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