LinkLocker

In a brief blog post full of informative screenshots, a Colorado security researcher known as NinjaStyle details how easily he was able to figure out how to pull personal information belonging to attendees of this year's Black Hat security conference. His snooping reveals that personally identifiable information for every attendee of the conference could be gathered in as little as six hours from an API used in collating marketing data via scans of attendee's conference badges. NinjaStyle found that he could pull his ...

The EFF points out that California's Consumer Privacy Act won't become law for 18 months, and that advocates have that amount of time to lobby for improvements to it. I agree completely with their list of suggestions...