Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its
Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals
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Die Tracking-Abfrage fr Apps von Drittanbietern auf iPhones ndert sich. Damit erreicht Apple, dass ein Verfahren beim Bundeskartellamt beigelegt wird.Nach Druck durch Bundeskartellamt: Apple schwcht Tracking-Warnung ab
App-Tracking-Transparenz erlaubt es iPhone-Nutzern, eine Verfolgung ber Apps zu unterbinden. Werbetreibende mgen das nicht. Nun wird die Warnung abgeschwcht.
Nur mal kurz die Oura-App gestartet und schon klopft sie bei Firebase, Segment, Sentry und Adobe an. Dazu natrlich noch die eigenen Oura-Endpunkte.
Noch kein Urteil darber, was dort jeweils bertragen wird. Aber fr eine App, die mit ziemlich sensiblen Gesundheitsdaten arbeitet, ist das schon ein recht geselliger Empfang.
Das schreit nach einem genaueren Blick auf den Netzwerkverkehr.
Forscher haben 266 Apps rund um Android Health Connect untersucht. 60,9 % verletzten Transparenzvorgaben, 25,6 % verschwiegen Sammlung oder Weitergabe von Gesundheitsdaten und 19,6 % exfiltrierten Health-Connect-Daten - teils inklusive Daten anderer Apps.
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Das gibt es doch schon lange
"How to track your VanMoof"
"Der Schweizer Online-Dienstanbieter Proton hat mit AI Paper Trail ein spannendes Tool vorgestellt, das darber Auskunft gibt, was KI-Plattformen alles ber einen gespeichert haben. Das kostenlose Tool soll es durch die Analyse von Gesprchsverlufen ermglichen, herauszufinden, welche Informationen bei den zwei untersttzten Plattformen ChatGPT und Claude gespeichert sind."
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Four phones are on the way for fans of the Google Pixel, as the range turns 11 and brings improvements to the processor, camera, and a new notification feature.
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Trackingis simply amazing!
Time travel,
Bad data,
Inability to sort by time...
Who knows
A Week With the Google Fitbit Air
The first reaction I had when wearing the Google Fitbit Air is Im looking at my wrist but I cant see the time. I see the value of minimalism but knowing the time is quite important to me. I have another watch, but if I have something on my watch I want it to show the time.
The concept of the Google Fitbit Air is simple. You wear it, forget about it, and it does everything for you, in the background. If you run, it tracks the run. If you cycle it tracks the bike ride. If you walk it tracks that. It also tracks your sleep, but it doesnt seem to detect naps, and thats a shame.
The thing that surprises me is that it seems to use a version of Google Gemini that is specialised in sports tracking but it doesnt seem that bright. Today I was hesitating between a social run and a social ride, and thinking about which would have the most social benefit for me. In the end it didnt understand that this was an Emotional Intelligence question rather than a sports intelligence question, and even then it wasnt that bright.
Just like Garmin it sees my crappy heat wave sleep as being very short, and thus that I shouldnt run, cycle or more, and that I should try to sleep properly. The reality is that during a heat wave polyphasic sleep makes more sense. It makes sense to sleep at night for as long as possible, and then to have a top up in the afternoon, when possible, to recharge.
There is a barrier that I cant ignore. The device costs 94 to 120 CHF depending on how patient you are which is cheap, compared to an Apple Watch or other devices, but with a yearly 100 CHF subscription for a specialist Google Gemini Sports interface. It has video content for various workouts which I have not spent any time looking at for now. I already hike, cycle, run and more so the idea of watching these videos is not compelling.
When looking at the cycling data from today I notice that it counted 1999 calories, whereas Garmin counted 1200-1500 calories depending on source. That is a huge difference.
I think that the Google Fitbit Air concept is interesting. I like the concept of a device that tracks a workout and looks only at heart rate, duration and similar data, without the distractions of maps and more. Tracking fitness without having to start walks, runs, bike rides and more is nice.
The device, in and of itself is fine, and the features are interesting. The price of the subscription is too high. 100 CHF per year, for the life of the device.
I wouldnt recommend it, for people like me. I think the 100 CHF yearly tax is too high. I think its good for digital minimalists, who want the tracking, but without the attention cost. Its just a colourful band on your wrist. Nothing more, until you check the app on the phone. Thats when the data it gathers comes to life.
Gemini said it wasnt for me, and after testing it, I agree but mainly because the subscription doubles the cost of ownership.
Strait of Hormuz Live Traffic Tracking
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Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues
Records obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of allegations of Customs and Border Protection workers misusing internal tools to look up interests and track colleagues cell phones.
Whos You Use This New Service to Find Out
It can be daunting to determine whos responsible for showing on the websites we visit, or whos harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily parsed and traditionally much of it has remained walled away in the hands of large platforms. Not anymore: A powerful and free new service called scrapes and correlates this data and makes it simple to quickly learn a great deal about the entities that are tracking you.
New.
Here's hoping the company doesn't get sued by advertisers trying to hide their practices. Most people don't bother to read the policies.
KrebsonSecurity: Whos Tracking You Use This New Service to Find Out
The Appeal of the Coros Heart Rate Monitor
Having a watch with an Heart rate (HR) monitor is fantastic until you realise its counting 20 BPM too high, and then its far less interesting because its reporting a moderate workout as heart.
Plenty of heart rate monitors come as chest straps and thats great if your workout starts and ends somewhere where its okay to strap on a heart rate monitor. In winter its also about convenience. It is complicated to remove five layers, to put the HR monitor on, and then start an activity.
Often I put the HR monitor on at home, and then drove or caught the train to the start of an activity, and then I started tracking. If you have hours of battery life with the HR monitor then thats fine.
In summer wearing an HR chest strap is not as complicated. You only have one layer to remove and put back on, but you might not want to do this in the middle of the street with plenty of people around.
Thats when the arm band concept, as with the COros HR monitor comes in. You can walk with it in your pocket, to the start, lift your sleeve, place it, and then lower the street, and within seconds you have your heart rate being tracked.
When youre cycling with the Garmin Explore 2 or running with the Coros Pace 3, or Garmin Forerunner 570, all of these devices recognise the HR monitor and accept its data.
When youre cycling with the Explore 2 it is useful to have a quick and convenient HR monitor to wear on one of your arms, instead of going through a few seconds of setting up the chest strap.
In summer I love the convenience of rolling up the t-shirt sleeve, placing the HR monitor, going for a ride, run, or walk, and as soon as Im done being able to remove it. It is also convenient to have 38 hours of battery and USB charging. 2032 battery HR monitors are great, but the convenience of simplified charging is welcome.
Its worth watching the pricing trends, because it varies from 73 CHF to 95CHF+ depending on the day.
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Cirqa Smart Ring: Garmin apparently plans to enter the smart ring market
A database entry suggests that Garmin is expanding its portfolio with a smart ring. The product could be released under the name Cirqa.
Cirqa Smart Ring: Garmin plant offenbar Einstieg in den Smartring-Markt
Ein Datenbankeintrag deutet darauf hin, dass Garmin sein Portfolio um einen Smartring erweitert. Das Produkt knnte unter dem Namen Cirqa erscheinen.
Flock (Again!) Activates A Camera System A Town Had Voted To Shut Down
Na toll:
13 Milliarden Handy-Standortdaten liegen bei Datenhndlern gesammelt ber Werbe-Apps, verkauft an ADINT-Firmen wie Penlink. Deren Werkzeug Webloc ortet Menschen metergenau.
I walked 5,000 steps with the Fitbit Air vs Garmin Cirqa Round 2: We have a new champ
We're back with another fitness-tracking showdown between everyone's favorite new screen-free trackers: the Fitbit Air vs. Garmin Cirq. Who will win round 2
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Surveillance company FLOCK moves to increase oversight after police misuse
Web analytics: Umami introduces two-factor login
In version 3.3.0, Umami introduces 2FA and links user sessions across devices. It also adds filters, copyable dashboards, and more.
Webanalyse: Umami fhrt Zwei-Faktor-Login ein
Umami fhrt in Version 3.3.0 eine 2FA ein und verknpft Nutzersitzungen ber Gerte hinweg. Hinzu kommen Filter, kopierbare Dashboards und mehr.
WhatsApp-Benutzername: Das sind die Vor- und Nachteile
Wie schtzt ein WhatsApp-Benutzername vor Betrug und welche Daten gibt man preis Verbraucherschtzer bewerten den Status quo beim Meta-Messenger.
Ich wei es, ich wei es...
Do Banks really wonder why privacy-aware people don't want their apps A "visiting device" had a.o. "SecureGo plus" from Atruvia installed. With permission of the owner, I've extracted the APK and ran it through our scanner. Apart from multiple tracking libraries, it also wants to RECORDAUDIO (access the microphone) and also MODIFYAUDIOSETTINGS. What for, I wonder Neither app description nor screenshots/website give a clue
WHEN YOU JUST WANT TO COLLECT SOME SPATIAL DATA!
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Australian Researchers Fitted Five Magpies With GPS Trackers To Map Their Movements, But The Birds Began Removing One Anothers Harnesses Within Minutes, Turning A Failed Trial Into An Unexpected Observation Of Cooperation
(When researchers tried to track Australian magpies, the birds turned the tablessystematically removing each other's harnesses and revealing something far more interesting than GPS coordinates.)
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the Aussie magpies need SWAG on their GPS harness!
Researchers in Queensland fitted five Australian magpies with tiny GPS trackers, hoping to map their movements and social relationships. The mischief had other plans.
Within about ten minutes, an untagged adult female was using her bill to work at the harness on a juvenile. The tracker came off. Nearby, another magpie was helping a second tagged bird on a powerline. Devices that had been designed to stay attached for weeks disappeared within minutes to days.
The author likes this story partly because it resists the tidy distinction between a successful experiment and a failed one. The researchers lost the movement data they went looking for, but the birds produced an observation nobody had planned
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Recent advances in tracking technology have enabled devices such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS) loggers to be used on a wide variety of birds. Although there are established ethical considerations to these processes, different species may react differently to particular devices and attachments. Thus, pilot studies are still of utmost importance in this field. Here, the authors describe one such study trialling a novel harness design for GPS tracking devices on Australian Magpies Gymnorhina tibicen. Despite previous testing demonstrating the strength and durability of the harness, devices were removed within minutes to hours of initial fitting. Notably, removal was observed to involve one bird snapping another birds harness at the only weak point, such that the tracker was released. This behaviour demonstrates both cooperation and a moderate level of problem solving, providing potential further evidence of the cognitive abilities of this species. To our knowledge, this is the first study to report the conspecific removal of GPS trackers, and should be considered when planning future tracking studies especially on highly social species
Welp, some emails from vendors I ordered things from had fishy purchase confirmation email addresses, so I did a quick search and now know about the creepiness that is Narvar. :blobcatthisisfine:
The thing is, I am NOT blocking ads, I don't mind ads tbh, show ads if it keeps you in business, I get it, someone has to pay for the service.
The thing is, I am NOT blocking ads, I don't mind ads tbh, show ads if it keeps you in business, I get it, someone has to pay for the service.
AI-based detection, classification and tracking of vehicles in large-scale video data (WAMI)
A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras
The demonstration tested whether adversarial design can defeat computer-vision algorithms
Bitte, bitte, bitte, lass die drecks-elende App komplett einstellen und durch ihre eigene, ungetrackte und saubere App ersetzen. Bitte, bitte, bitte lass nicht den sch*-drecks-Trackingwahn von auf & Libby bergehen.
Ergnzung: Es gibt eine neue Onleihe App, die & statt nutzt. Es scheint tatschlich besser geworden zu sein:
Apps kriegen das mit Datenschutz und transparenten Informationen nach wie vor nicht hin sagt . Guter berblick!