Highly misleading headline (though I'm appalled by the apps' data collection as well). The headline suggests (and it was why I initially clicked it) that the noise-cancelling microphones listened on the user and transmitted those recordings to Bose. Now _that_ what be a proper scandal.
Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit
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#12This type of case could get interesting with the new EU data privacy laws, GDPR, coming into effect in a year (May 2018).
You have to be able to prove consent. "Controllers should also implement mechanisms to ensure that personal data is only processed when necessary for each specific purpose." It will be interesting to see which type of cumbersome consent forms we are going to have to go through when this comes into effect.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regu...
Re: Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit
#13This type of case could get interesting with the new EU data privacy laws, GDPR, coming into effect in a year (May 2018). You have to be able to prove consent. "Controllers should also implement mechanisms to ensure that personal data is only processed when necessary for each specific purpose." It will be interesting to see which type of cumbersome consent forms we are going to have to go through when this comes into…
The interesting bit with consent (for EU data protection stuff) is that it has be freely given (so you have to be able to say no), and it has to be informed, so you'd have to show that the person knew what they were signing up for. 20 pages of legalese is probably not "consent"
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#14I submitted an Amazon review for my QC35 (purchased on Amazon) mentioning the questionable privacy policy.
It was instantly denied (..."not following review guidelines...")
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#15Does this mean that anyone who's using Segment to collect data on their customer and sends it to a warehouse like Google Big Query is more likely to have a problem because the data is "shared" with two third parties? (pardon my ignorance, not good with this stuff)
I believe that is the reason we have "cookie law" in EU.
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#16I submitted an Amazon review for my QC35 (purchased on Amazon) mentioning the questionable privacy policy. It was instantly denied (..."not following review guidelines...")
I've just done the same...wonder if they will publish mine.
The app store did publish it.
Edit: mine has been instantly published and I see another from 2 days ago that also cites concerns. I wonder if it will be removed.
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#17always monitor your TCP connections.
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#18A more in depth look into what data is collected by a security researcher:
https://bscc.support/files/bc_privacy/bose_connect_privacy_e...
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#19always monitor your TCP connections.
Is there an easy way to do this on iOS?
I use Little Snitch on my laptop, but haven't ever found an equivalent for mobile devices.
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#20always monitor your TCP connections.
I recently enabled Little Snitch on my Mac. It has a lot of system rules enabled but I disabled them all just to see what happened.
I knew that OS X has a lot of cloud interaction and phones home often... but it's staggering just how often and to how many addresses and protocols this is. I mean every minute or so it's doing something it probably doesn't have to.
It makes me wonder how safe VPNs are. I don't think they're safe at all seeing all this side traffic going out concurrently.