Mod parent up! Whoever modded this comment down either hasn't investigated the matter, or sympathizes with those whose goal is the total destruction of privacy for average citizens.

A penalty that stands a chance of getting the offender's attention, rather than one that's considered simply a cost of doing business. The fine should have been higher though - perhaps an additional $90M as purely punitive damages. Companies need to learn that wilfully screwing over their customers really, really hurts their bottom line. Also, an award approaching a fifth of a billion would likely piss off enough shareholders that several heads would roll.

I don't use mobile email, and don't use Yahoo as my primary email anyway. But on the desktop Yahoo is pretty useable if you disable JavaScript. (In fact I find the non-JS version to be better than Gmail's incredibly annoying "we know what you want even though you don't think you want it" set of 'features'). You get a stupid warning on login and have to click a link to use the non-JS version. But after that, a lot of the annoying, bloated bling disappears. And as a bonus, you can have multiple emails open in multiple tabs - something the braindead JS version is incapable of.

Unfortunately, adding attachments to an email requires JavaScript. I just temporarily allow scripts for Yahoo, then revoke the permissions when I'm done.

Just stop with all the RFID bullshit on credit and debit cards! Really, is that extra few seconds taken to insert and enter a PIN such an onerous burden? People in that much of a hurry aren't likely to use that precious sliver of time to stop and smell the roses anyway.

For those worried about cell phones and the like, I suspect the new-style duds will do little or nothing to impede those signals. They're a couple of orders of magnitude higher in frequency than the current RFID payment systems, and they use far-field RF, whose intensity falls off with with the square of distance. The intensity of Near-Field Communications falls off with the cube of distance, and is more 'magnetic' than 'electro' in nature, so the shielding mechanism tends to be different.

For myself, I plan on de-activating all of my contactless payment cards by breaking the antenna loop with a drill, as soon as I can get them imaged so I know where the antenna traces are. I've already had my banks disable the feature, so in theory I shouldn't be able to make contactless payments, but that won't stop info theft via unauthorized readers.

And yes, I DO wear my tinfoil hat proudly...

Everbody knows that invading digital privacy across international boundaries is the job of corporations, not governments!

The title of the article, (and therefore the summary), should have said "Uber Claims To Have Limited 'God View' To Improve Rider Privacy". After all, does anybody other than gullible people and fanbois really take them at their word?

Fucking neocons? Fucking traitors, I say. I also despair for our country under Harper's dict - er, leadership. His ultimate goal seems to be to turn Canada into America's bitch and/or the stooge of any multinational corporation wanting to bend us over and take advantage of us. We used to have a good reputation internationally and some influence on the world stage - hell, we used to have *autonomy*. Now we're increasingly sticking our nose into other countries' business at the behest of our cousins north of the border, we're a target for ISIS terrorists, and our environmental record sucks. Government scientists have government handlers to 'advise' them before they talk to the press - North Korea, anyone? We have gone downhill in so many ways and been sold out so many times under Stephen 'Brown-nose' Harper's regime, I'll be doing a dance when Canadians finally wake up come next election and give him the bum's rush.

Banks in EVERY jurisdiction carry out transactions with and pay interest on money deposited by criminals of various stripes, from tax evaders to mobsters to drug lords to terrorists. And in many cases the banksters know the provenance of those funds, and simply don't care, 'cause business is business after all. Not to mention the thefts the banks themselves commit, which are only not considered illegal via the legal legerdemain of calling them 'service fees'. So why do governments, (and by extension, their corporate masters), have such a hate on for the TPB? Yeah, I know, it's a rhetorical question, but I had to ask it.

So Pirate Bay is raided and shut down, and its founders thrown in prison, while bank CEO's are allowed to conduct business freely and in full daylight with impunity. It seems that a lot of somebodies in a lot of places consider the facilitation of file sharing a more heinous crime than the facilitation of theft, murder, gun running, etc. Gee, that disconnect wouldn't have anything at all to do with the profits of big corporations, would it?

Too bad I already posted - I SOOO want to mod you up!

Apple can do that because they own their hardware market. Microsoft can't even manage to own a decent-sized piece of a free-for-all hardware market, much less create their own viable hardware ecosystem.

I wonder if Arista also copied the 'ease of access' that Cisco provides to the NSA and others? Maybe that's patented too...

I'm pretty sure that's exactly what he meant. Also, Grammar Nazi says that "none" is singular, so the quote should have read "none of the shops I frequent doesn't have them".