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Your Android phone is about as personal as a device can get, storing your contacts and photos, accessing your email and even your bank statement. As more services orient personalization around your smartphone, privacy concerns continue to be raised. The recent Path debacle was a mere microcosm of wh ... Full Article »
After a whole lot of privacy concerns and controversy swirling around cellular traffic-tracking software from Carrier IQ, Sprint has announced it is disabling the software on all of its devices. You might remember hearing about Carrier IQ last month after it became apparent that the company’s sof ... Full Article »
It seems the dark side of pre-installed software on our Android devices is emerging, as the Carrier IQ controversy continues. What Android researcher and app developer Trevor Eckhart uncovered with Carrier IQ’s data collection methods has upturned an entire mobile industry, questioning what mobile ... Full Article »
When Amazon announced its new Kindle Fire Android tablet, it also announced a new piece of web-browsing software called Silk. And that piece of software has some people worried about Amazon getting ahold of a lot of private data. The Silk web browser is Amazon’s solution to keeping the Fire cheap ... Full Article »
If you’re suspicious about your spouse, it’s not an invasion of privacy to use a GPS device to track their whereabouts, at least in New Jersey. The story comes from NJ.com, in which an appellate court panel has ruled in the case of a Gloucester County couple that employing GPS technology to tra ... Full Article »
It's rare nowadays, to hear of a sex scandal that doesn't involve technology. If you have some photos or videos on your phone that you'd prefer the whole world didn't know about, Hide Pictures With Kii Safe could save some embarrassment and even your reputation. The app is essentially a password-p ... Full Article »
Members of the U.S. Senate’s Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee are urging lawmakers to pass laws that will give wireless subscribers greater protection for their personal information, following controversy surrounding smartphones tracking user location and security breaches in their m ... Full Article »
If you thought the matter of Google’s (GOOG) data collection methods would have blown over by now, you’re awfully mistaken. Rising consumer awareness around Google’s pin-pointing activity through Android Wi-Fi connection points has raised several questions around the company’s practice, even ... Full Article »
There’s been much made out of the recently reported, but not so unknown, feature of Apple’s iPhone, which stores GPS location data in an unencrypted file, effectively tracking the iPhone’s user continually and saving the information indefinitely. Reports currently say that the information isn ... Full Article »
When The Wall Street Journal revealed both Google (GOOG) and Apple’s (AAPL) data collection tactics for their respective smartphones, it re-addressed an ongoing discussion around Android security, but also gave both platforms an opportunity to educate and win over consumers. It seems Apple’s kee ... Full Article »
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