"No coal in them Stockings" from the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending December 24th., 2024

Episode 222

For our first story Bot Detection Is No Longer Working. CAPTCHAs are now a reverse IQ test—humans fail while bots ace them effortlessly.

Then senators rip into the automakers: Car makers sell your data but won’t let you fix your car—talk about a two-for-one insult.

Fancy digital plates? Cool until someone hacks them to dodge tolls—or make you pay theirs.

A GPS tracker company left customer data exposed, which is a little ironic for a business built on knowing your every move.

Then a new smart assistant that won’t gossip about you to the cloud. It's still got some rough edges, but…

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