This report describes major security and privacy issues in several leading wearable fitness tracking devices and accompanying mobile applications.
Every Step You Fake: A Comparative Analysis of Fitness Tracker Privacy and Security
Articles
Blog posts, reports, and articles written by Open Effect staff.
Snifflab: An environment for testing mobile devices
A look at how our Snifflab test environment works to collect packets and man-in-the-middle HTTPS communications for easy security research.
Some impressions on Internet advertiser security
In our blog post, we describe the results of tests we conducted to measure HTTPS support on the advertisers found on a sample of news websites as well as two sample lists of advertisers. We find a large disparity between our results and the the level of security support referred to in a recent post on the Internet Advertising Bureau’s website.
TrackerSSL highlights insecure websites and their ad trackers
This post describes TrackerSSL, a browser extension that reveals the leaky ad trackers on webpages that leave your browsing habits open to surveillance.
Early findings from AMI requests
This post provides a summary of early findings associated with Canadians creating right to information requests using the Access My Info tool. The full version of these findings is to be published in the Winston Report.
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