{"id":5429,"date":"2013-10-11T13:53:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T19:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5429"},"modified":"2013-10-11T13:53:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T19:53:23","slug":"the-ticking-privacy-time-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5429","title":{"rendered":"The Ticking Privacy Time Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/cybertruth\/2013\/10\/11\/how-edward-snowden-has-set-privacy-time-bomb-ticking\/2964925\/\">Byron Acohido:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Markey reacted to a story in last Saturday&#8217;s New York Times examining how the online advertising industry is now able to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/06\/technology\/selling-secrets-of-phone-users-to-advertisers.html?pagewanted=all\">track consumers across the various platforms and devices<\/a> they use, often without the user&#8217;s knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n<p>That Times&#8217; scoop followed an Oct. 2 report about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/03\/us\/nsa-experiment-traced-us-cellphone-locations.html\">the National Security Agency conducted a secret pilot program in 2010 and 2011 to test the collection of bulk data about the location of Americans&#8217; cell phones<\/a>. That pilot program was never carried out.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, Markey said in a statement issued late Thursday to reporters that he is &#8220;concerned about the increasing practice of marketers scooping up digital traces from our phones, tablets and computers that are then stitched together into detailed dossiers without consumers&#8217; knowledge or permission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a separate &#8212; but very much related development on Thursday &#8212; data management firm Identity Finder disclosed how the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/cybertruth\/2013\/10\/10\/google-chromes-cache-makes-data-easy-to-steal\/2961739\/\">caching mechanism in Google&#8217;s popular Chrome browser stores unencrypted personal data<\/a> in a way that makes it trivial for hackers to steal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byron Acohido: Markey reacted to a story in last Saturday&#8217;s New York Times examining how the online advertising industry is now able to track consumers across the various platforms and devices they use, often without the user&#8217;s knowledge or consent. That Times&#8217; scoop followed an Oct. 2 report about how the National Security Agency conducted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}