Day: October 19, 2014

NL Provice of Utrecht buys citizen Facebookprofiles for marketing by offering free WiFi.

Posted on by Robin Edgar

The Dutch province Utrecht has signed a deal with City Wireless that allows people free wireless. They can log in with their Facebook profile, which is then harvested for information for marketing purposes. City Wireless has since changed its’ homepage, removing the grizly details, but the Dutch paper still has the screencaps. Article in Dutch. Read more about NL Provice of Utrecht buys citizen Facebookprofiles for marketing by offering free WiFi.[…]

BitHammer – Ban BitTorrent clients

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Free up shared wifi spots! Over a year of traveling, I’ve consistently struggled with broken wifi spots overloaded with torrent traffic. After talking with the frustrated non-technical people who owned/managed them, I wrote this program to help network users and owners. This program: Listens for BitTorrent clients on the network, Adds their IPs and MACs Read more about BitHammer – Ban BitTorrent clients[…]

Banks harvest callers’ voiceprints without their knowledge

Posted on by Robin Edgar

A recent AP survey of 10 leading voice biometric vendors found that more than 65 million people worldwide have had their voiceprints taken, and that several banks, including Barclays PLC in Britain and Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp, are in the process of introducing their customers to the technology. via Banks harvest callers' voiceprints to fight fraud. Read more about Banks harvest callers’ voiceprints without their knowledge[…]