Booking.com ändrar sin sajt | SVT Nyheter

Sedan Plusredaktionen inledde sin granskning av hotellbokningssajten Booking.com har företaget nu valt att dölja funktionen för överstrukna priser på sin bokningssida.Det gäller dock bara om man besöker sajten via en dator. Systemet med överstrukna priser finns dock kvar i den mobilanpassade versionen av sajten och i booking.coms app.Systemet med hur de överstrukna priserna genereras beskrivs fortfarande i villkoren för sidan.Plusredaktionen har sökt booking.com för en kommentar på ändringen, men inte fått något svar ännu. Bokningssajten har dock tidigare kommenterat kritiken som riktats mot deras sajt.

The FBI does not have to reveal the identity of a vendor that helped it unlock the iPhone of one of the shooters in the 2015 San Bernardino terror attack, or the price it paid for the vendor’s services, a federal judge ruled.In summary judgment issued Saturday, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in the District of Columbia wrote that the FBI had shown that releasing the vendor’s name “could be reasonably expected to cause harm to national security interests by limiting the FBI’s present and future ability to gain access to suspected terrorists’ phones.”She also wrote that disclosure of the vendor’s identity would “risk disclosure of a law enforcement technique and create a reasonably expected risk of circumvention of the law.”The judge also ruled that releasing the amount paid could also cause a “reasonably expected risk of harm to national security,” as the price could “logically reveal how much the FBI values gaining access to suspects’ phones, and the breadth of the tool’s capabilities.”

The new iPhone 8, as you probably couldn’t help learning a few weeks back, boasts “wireless charging that’s truly effortless”, meaning that instead of having to plug it into the wall, you simply place it on a special pad. Whoch you then plug into the wall. If you’re struggling to imagine the kind of person who finds the act of plugging a cable into their phone unacceptably inconvenient – especially since you’ll still have to leave your phone in one place while it charges – well, that makes two of us.

Vi lämnar dagligen efter oss digitala fotavtryck. Sociala medier som Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat och Twitter samlar in mängder av information om oss, och med hjälp av så kallade cookies och platstjänster kartläggs vårt surfande – för att sedan användas för att skapa riktad reklam. Journalisten Judith Duportail frågade den populära dejtingappen Tinder om sin data – och fick enligt egen utsago tillbaka 800 sidor av sina ”djupaste, mörkaste hemligheter”.I förra veckan skrev den franska journalisten Judith Duportail en uppmärksammad artikel i brittiska The Guardian. Den handlar om att hon har begärt ut alla sina data från Tinder, det vill säga all personlig information som företaget har sparat om henne sedan hon registrerade sig som användare.

We’re all familiar with the Internet, and the way it connects humans to one another and to vast amounts of data. But computer visionaries foresee the day when not just humans but all our devices are connected to each other via the Internet.This so-called “Internet of Things” (IoT) would make possible all manner of transformative technologies, from digital sensors that allow crops to report when they are thirsty or under attack by insects to parking spaces that alert us when they’re available to tiny implants that continuously monitor our health as we go about our lives.That long-anticipated day is still a ways off, because at this point the Internet of Things might more accurately be described as an Internet of Costly Things.

A US professor is trying to reclaim his personal data from the controversial analytics firm that helped Donald Trump to power. In what legal experts say may be a “watershed” case, a US citizen is using British laws to try to discover how he was profiled and potentially targeted by the Trump campaign.David Carroll, an associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York, has discovered a transatlantic legal mechanism that he hopes will give him access to information being sought by both the FBI and the Senate intelligence committee. In recent weeks, investigators looking at how people acting on behalf of Russia targeted American voters have focused on Trump’s data operation. But although the FBI obtained a court order against Facebook to make it disclose evidence, the exact way in whoch US citizens were profiled and targeted remains largely unknown.