This is the Shared Security Weekly Blaze for July 16th, 2018 sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions and Silent Pocket. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston. Listen to this episode and previous ones direct via your web browser by clicking here!
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This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for July 16th 2018 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: Polar fitness app location data exposed, blocking scam phone calls and the Samba TV privacy controversy.
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Hi everyone, I’m Tom Eston, Co-host of the Shared Security podcast. Welcome to the Shared Security Weekly Blaze where we update you on the top 3 security and privacy topics from the week. These weekly podcasts are published every Monday and are 15 minutes or less quickly giving you “news that you can use”.
I wanted to clarify a few details about the new California Privacy Act that I discussed on the Weekly Blaze podcast last week. While this law applies only to California residents, it will most likely have broader implications for all major businesses in the US. Most major companies that deal in personal data, have some California customers. That will leave those businesses with two options: either build systems and procedures to comply with California law, or treat Californians one way and every other customer another. It should be interesting to see how this plays out in the coming months before this law is made official in 2020.
Here we go again with more fitness apps exposing the location of spies and military personnel. You may remember back in February on the second episode of the Weekly Blaze podcast we discussed how the popular fitness app Strava inadvertently disclosed locations, daily routines and possible supply routes of known and unknown US military bases and CIA outposts. This information was all found though Strava’s publicly available “world-wide heatmap” of Strava users. This time around it’s fitness tracker Polar’s turn which has an app called “Polar Flow” that has a developer API that can be improperly queried. In addition to viewing the public Polar user map, the data exposed includes all user details including GPS coordinates. Journalists from the Dutch news site De Correspondent were able to identify over 6,400 users across 69 different nationalities that have been using the Polar Flow app to see who they are and where they worked using Google and LinkedI
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