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While you’re sleeping, your #iPhone stays busy — snooping on you - NZ Herald
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IPhone apps I discovered tracking me by passing information to third parties - just while I was asleep - include Microsoft OneDrive, Intuit’s Mint, Nike, Spotify, the Washington Post and IBM’s the Weather Channel. One app, the crime-alert service Citizen, shared personally identifiable information in violation of its published privacy policy.

And your iPhone doesn’t feed data trackers only while you sleep. In a single week, I encountered over 5400 trackers, mostly in apps, not including the incessant Yelp traffic. According to privacy firm Disconnect, which helped test my iPhone, those unwanted trackers would have spewed out 1.5 gigabytes of data over the span of a month. That’s half of an entire basic wireless service plan from US telecommunictions company AT&T.

“This is your data, why should it even leave your phone? Why should it be collected by someone when you don’t know what they’re going to do with it?” says Patrick Jackson, a former National Security Agency researcher who is chief technology officer for Disconnect. He hooked my iPhone into special software so we could examine the traffic. “I know the value of data, and I don’t want mine in any hands where it doesn’t need to be.”

In a world of data brokers, Jackson is the data breaker. He developed an app called Privacy Pro that identifies and blocks many trackers. If you’re a little bit techie, I recommend trying the free iOS version to glimpse the secret life of your iPhone.

Après le #Co2 et le #méthane

Melting #Permafrost Could Release Massive Amounts of Dangerous Mercury, Study Says | The Weather Channel
▻https://weather.com/science/environment/news/2018-02-07-permafrost-mercury-stores-climate-change

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“Prior to the start of the study, people assumed permafrost contained little to no mercury,” study co-author Kevin Schaefer of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado said in a press release. “But it turns out that not only is there mercury in permafrost, it’s also the biggest pool of mercury on the planet.”

#pergélisol #mercure

Mass Graves of Immigrants Found in Texas, But State Says No Laws Were Broken

Texas says there is “no evidence” of wrongdoing after mass graves filled with bodies of immigrants were found miles inland from the U.S.-Mexico border. The bodies were gathered from the desert surrounding a checkpoint in Falfurrias, Texas, in Brooks County. An investigation was launched after the mass graves were exposed last November in a documentary by The Weather Channel in partnership with Telemundo and The Investigative Fund. The report also found many of the migrants died after crossing into the United States and waiting hours for Border Patrol to respond to their 911 calls. We speak with reporter John Carlos Frey, who found rampant violations of the law.

►http://www.democracynow.org/2015/7/16/mass_graves_of_immigrants_found_in
#migrations #asile #réfugiés #cadavres #mourir_aux_frontières #Texas #USA #fosses_communes #Etats-Unis #corps #décès

Mass Graves of Immigrants Found in #Texas, But State Says No Laws Were Broken

Texas says there is “no evidence” of wrongdoing after mass graves filled with bodies of immigrants were found miles inland from the U.S.-Mexico border. The bodies were gathered from the desert surrounding a checkpoint in Falfurrias, Texas, in Brooks County. An investigation was launched after the mass graves were exposed last November in a documentary by The Weather Channel in partnership with Telemundo and The Investigative Fund. The report also found many of the migrants died after crossing into the United States and waiting hours for Border Patrol to respond to their 911 calls. We speak with reporter John Carlos Frey, who found rampant violations of the law.

►http://www.democracynow.org/2015/7/16/mass_graves_of_immigrants_found_in
#fosses_communes #migration #frontière #mourir_aux_frontières #USA #Etats-Unis #Mexique