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Today I’m happy to announce the publication of the Access My Info software design document. This document described in detail the thought that went into developing AMI. It outlines: our original objectives for the tool, new goals for the version we released last year, a description of the conceptual model underlying the application, some of… Read more »
Today, we are pleased to announce the release of our full report detailing our year-long research project into the privacy and security of wearable fitness tracking devices.
This report describes major security and privacy issues in several leading wearable fitness tracking devices and accompanying mobile applications.
Today, Andrew Hilts spoke at an OCAD University conference to discuss two Open Effect projects. The talk was part of DEEP ’15: Designing Enabling Economies and Policies, hosted by the Inclusive Design Research Centre.
We are excited to announce the forthcoming publication of a research paper at the 5th USENIX Workshop for Free and Open Communications on the Internet. The paper explores the security levels of the top 500 websites in each category of the Alexa rankings.