Nine in 10 Americans believe they have no control over their personal information, how it is collected and how it is used by companies, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. And they're more concerned about corporate America than the government.
In particular, scientists, engineers, and clinicians who endeavor to better understand how nanotechnology can impact biological systems—through the use of biosensors, biopharmaceuticals, and biomaterials—are finding abundant opportunities to pursue these investigations in multiple environments. Across the globe, demand is high in biosystems nanotechnology for professionals who speak the language of engineering and biology and have skill sets that include collaborating on diverse teams. By Alaina G. Levine
After last year’s revelations about U.S. Internet surveillance raised interest in privacy tools, Google and Yahoo both announced they were working on software to let people who use their e-mail services easily exchange encrypted messages. Now a prototype browser extension called ShadowCrypt, made by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Maryland, goes even further. It makes it easy to send and receive encrypted text on Twitter, Facebook, or any other website.
The Apple iPhone 6 Plus is a significantly larger take on the traditional iPhone experience. But it looks and feels great: it's thinner than the iPhone 5S that preceded it, and sports revamped hardware.
The tracking cookie appears to be part of Verizon’s Precision Market Insights program, which started way back in 2012. AT&T has been testing a similar supercookie, but so far it seems only Verizon has rolled it out network-wide. The tracking cookie, as you can probably guess, allows Verizon to track almost everything that you do on the internet, and then sell that behavioral data to advertisers. While it’s utterly heinous that you can’t opt out, it gets worse: Verizon’s implementation of the supercookie is so sloppy that any third party can also use the cookie to track your behavior. Clearly, privacy is something that only happens on other carriers.