This Week in Tech 754

This Week's Stories:

•  Mojo Vision: Augmented Reality contact lenses
•  The face recognition company that will end privacy
•  FBI vs Apple 2: Pensacola Boogaloo
•  NOBUS: why the NSA's "NObody But US" theory of exploits fail
•  Cable Haunt: critical vulnerability in many cable modems
•  Apple and Google are cracking down on location privacy, and ad tech companies are unhappy
•  Don't worry about your kids' phone use so much
•  Google will kill 3rd-party cookies by 2022
•  Verizon's "private" search engine
•  The EU is not asking Apple to kill the lightning plug
•  Our secret shame: the box of cords in our garage
•  Digital hoarding: iTunes vs Gmail
•  Amazon wants you to pay with a wave of your hand
•  Sim swapping attacks: hacking customer service
•  Joe Biden wants to repeal Section 230. This is dangerous.
•  Sonos, Tile, and Pop Sockets testify against Google, Apple, and Amazon in Congress

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Links

• Apple Refused US Attorney General Bill Barr's Request To Unlock Pensacola Shooter's Phone
• Apple vs FBI: Pensacola Isn’t San Bernardino - Lawfare
• Report: The FBI recently unlocked an iPhone 11 Pro with GrayKey, raising more doubts about the Pensacola case - 9to5Mac
• Apple's new privacy features have further rattled the location-based ad market - Digiday
• How the Death of iTunes Explains the 2010s - The Atlantic
• No, the EU isn’t asking Apple to kill the Lightning cable - The Verge
• Google plans to drop Chrome support for tracking cookies by 2022
• Cash, Plastic or Hand? Amazon Envisions Paying With a Wave
• Academic research finds five US telcos vulnerable to SIM swapping attacks | ZDNet
• The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
• Google Hands Feds 1,500 Phone Locations In Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search
• Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
• Cable Haunt
• Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google bashed by smaller rivals at congressional antitrust hearing - The Washington Post
• Opinion | Joe Biden Says Age Is Just a Number - The New York Times
• This startup wants to put a tiny display on a contact lens
• Mojo Vision
• Panicking about your kids' phones? New research says don't.
• Yahoo parent Verizon promises it won’t track you with OneSearch, its new privacy-focused search engine
• Admit It: You Have a Box of Cords You’ll Never, Ever Use Again - WSJ
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