All the stories tagged with privacy
Reddit’s New And Simple Privacy Policy Will Be In Effect From May 15th
05/02/2013, If you’re an ardent user of the internet, chances are that you have stumbled upon Reddit once or twice. This social news site is also home to Redditors, who are dedicated and quite frankly, addicted to this website. Today Reddit [...]
Samsung KNOX Provides Privacy To BYOD Users
02/25/2013, Samsung has just announced KNOX, a security solution for its Android smartphones that provides a secure container that completely separates data from work and life, giving the user complete control over his/her “private” data, while letting its company manage the [...]
FTC Revises Child Online Privacy Protection Act, Now Includes Social Networks & Apps
12/19/2012, New times require new rules. That is why the Federal Trade Commission is updating its decade-old rule surrounding children’s online privacy. This time, the FTC wants to include social networks and smartphone apps. The report comes after a complaint was [...]
The EU officially wants Google to collect less data
10/16/2012, The Nobel Peace Prize-winning European Union has its eyes set on a new regulatory target–Google. Today, French regulators associated with the EU sent Google a letter with an ultimatum: Google has four months to change its privacy policy because of [...]
Dear employers, you can no longer ask employees for their social media passwords
09/28/2012, A queer practice in a number of organizations cause quite a hue and cry on the web recently. It was that numerous organizations were demanding from prospective employees to provide their social media passwords. This was apparently done to get [...]
Taliban use fake “hot girls” Facebook profiles to gather military secrets
09/11/2012, If you don’t know someone on Facebook, it is probably not a good idea to add them up. It is worst still if you add up unknown people and keep a lot of personal data on your profile. In many [...]
Secure.me monitors your privacy and reputation
12/06/2011, Secure.me is a free web service that aims at monitoring your privacy and reputation in Facebook. Although most of us have not had a Facebook horror story to share, we have probably heard quite a few. Whether it is to [...]
Voodoo Carrier IQ app scans your phone for Carrier IQ presence
12/02/2011, For those of you who have been following the tech news, you’re probably aware of a the drama and controversy surrounding a certain company by the name of Carrier IQ. Now if reading all that news has gotten you a [...]
Amazon Silk Web Browser raises privacy concerns
10/14/2011, We’ve previously mentioned that Amazon’s Silk Web Browser isn’t exactly new technology – Opera has been doing it for years now. While the latter company has gone about its business without raising any concerns, it looks like Amazon isn’t faring [...]
Verizon makes changes to its privacy policy
10/13/2011, For Verizon customers: just in case you haven’t noticed or haven’t bothered to pay attention, the carrier has recently made a significant change to its privacy policy for mobile users this week. Its privacy policy now mentions that in order [...]
Jailbreaker discovers Windows Phone 7 does transmit user location data without permission
09/26/2011, A while back there was an issue with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform. Much like other mobile platforms such as Android and iOS, it appeared at that time that WP7 was collecting user location data, the same data that landed [...]
Foursquare to protect the location of your home
09/20/2011, One of the things that people love doing with Foursquare is checking in when they’re at home – most of the time it ensures that they’ll at least be a mayor in one location on the map. However, it’s not [...]
RingShuffle: Say goodbye to stalkers
09/14/2011, How many times have you given out your number only to wish that you haven’t? It could be to a sales person at the mall, a guy/girl you’ve met at the bar while drunk, or a friend’s friend who later [...]
