Radio Frequency fingerprinting of aircraft ADS-B transmitters? Boffins reckon they’ve cracked it
A group of academics reckon they’ve found a way to uniquely fingerprint aeroplanes’ Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) tracking transmitters – though an aviation infosec boffin says more research is needed to verify the new technique.
European Commission to take a closer look at how Amazon uses business data of third-party sellers using its platform
After a year of gentle probing, the European Commission has fired off a Statement of Objections to Amazon about the way it accesses sales data generated by third parties on its online marketplace.
Tim Berners-Lee asks everyone to do new biz a Solid and let him have another crack at fixing the Web’s privacy
Inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, is having anothercrack at fixing the internet’s biggest problems with the launch of a new enterprise server.
The Inrupt Enterprise Solid Server is the first product from a company the inventor started two years ago in response to the problem of personal data online, where tech giants like Facebook and Google build vast databases on user’s profiles and sell them to advertisers to make massive profits.
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