Anomali Labs reports that 35 million voter records have been found for sale on a Dark Web marketplace. The data include both personal information and voting histories. Possible outcomes include identity theft and large-scale electoral fraud.
A café in Rhode Island is bringing the info economy to the offline world. Patrons pay for their coffee with personal info, which the café sells to marketers. Why do we want free coffee badly enough that we feel OK about creepy ads in our faces around the clock?
Feedbin has decided to enable a number of privacy settings by default. It's really great to see other services starting to view privacy as a feature that their customers will want.
Hotel security at Caesar's Palace decided, in the wake of the Mandalay Bay massacre, that it was a good idea to conduct unannounced, random searches of guest rooms during DEF CON this weekend. Welcome to your Corporate Police State.
Now you're being surveilled in meatspace, too.