S14:E3 - Introducing DevNews (Joseph Cox)
Do you know what your app's location data is being used for?
In this episode of DevNews, hosts Saron Yitbarek and Josh Puetz, cover how Apple server problems caused slowdowns and crashes for app launching in all versions of MacOS, the rise of school districts being the targets of ransomware attacks, and GitHub reinstating youtube-dl, a program to download videos from YouTube and other video sites, after a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown. And then they chat with Senior Staff Writer at Motherboard, Joseph Cox, whose piece titled, “How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps,” shines a spotlight on the location data industry, and who is being targeted.
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- How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps
- Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back
- Schools Struggling to Stay Open Get Hit by Ransomware Attacks
- Apple Addresses Privacy Concerns Surrounding App Authentication in macOS
Joseph Cox
Joseph Cox covers privacy, hackers, and crime for Motherboard.