All the stories tagged with privacy
Google Required To Publish Italian Street View Car Routes Three Days In Advance
10/25/2010, Google’s Street View service that allows you to view maps at street level is incredibly useful and not to mention controversial. If you’ve previously read about the pranksters (pictured above) who like to tail the Google Street View cars, it’s [...]
Robotic Curtain Ensures Your Privacy
10/15/2010, Human beings have been trying to attach motors and all sorts of fancy robot-related stuff to household devices for some time now, though the majority of such contraptions involve making stuff tweet. Now a hardware hacker named Niklas Roy has [...]
Software erases pedestrians from Google Street View
08/11/2010, Google Street View is now under scrutiny in Germany, as it doesn’t really go down well with privacy advocates. After all, does the average person on the street have a reasonable limit of expectation to not end up on the [...]
Google Buys A Microdrone Unmanned Flight Drone For Itself
08/10/2010, Folks who are concerned about their privacy might be slightly wary to get wind that Google has just purchased its own Microdrone, which is an interesting and cool looking unmanned flying drone. Speculation is that Google is planning to use [...]
RIM Won’t Compromise On Security And Privacy Over UAE Ban
08/03/2010, With RIM’s BlackBerry recently deemed too secure for the UAE, it’ll be an interesting challenge for RIM to work out a compromise with the UAE as to how it will be able to continue to operate there. The company has [...]
Facebook Testing New Account Deletion Feature
07/26/2010, Deleting your Facebook account is never as easy as it should be, as many folks have found out that they need to deactivate their account for 14-days first, after which Facebook will send you various notifications in order to entice [...]
Does The HTC Sense UI Have A Browser Privacy Issue?
06/17/2010, HTC has been enjoying quite a bit of success with the HTC Desire, Droid Incredible and EVO 4G recently, but a little disappointing bit of news has surfaced related to the Droid Incredible, and it might be related to HTC’s [...]
AT&T Apologizes To iPad 3G Subscribers Over Privacy Breach
06/13/2010, While it’s probably scant consolation, but a few days after it was reported that hackers managed to get access to the email addresses of some 114,000 AT&T iPad 3G subscribers, the company’s VP of Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer [...]
Google Street View Team Accidentally Catches Wi-Fi Data
05/15/2010, While many people love the free services that Google offers to the public, there are many folks out there who are concerned about the amount of personal data that Google manages to accumulate. A recent incident has surfaced; possibly highlighting [...]
MXI Security Stealth HD Bio Focuses On The Security Of Your Hard Drive
05/14/2010, Are you really fussy about the privacy of your data that you keep in your hard drives? And we mean really fussy. If you’re the ultra-paranoid type of person, you’ll be happy to hear that MXI Security has announced its [...]
Google Releases Video To Teach Kids About Security On Buzz
04/06/2010, As expected, Google has updated its privacy settings on Google Buzz, which is certainly a good move. Aside from the updated privacy settings, the search engine giant has also released a video educating children how to be more careful with [...]
Medical Researchers Looking For Improvements In Security And Privacy Of Implantable Medical Devices
04/01/2010, Do you worry about the security and reliability of the medical devices that might be implanted in your body (for whatever reason)? If you’re the cautious type, you’ll appreciate the fact that various researchers have published an article in the [...]
Google Adjusts Buzz Privacy Settings
02/12/2010, You might have been busy enjoying Google Buzz over the past few days, but lots of folks out there have rather concerned about the privacy aspects of it, not to mention that it’s difficult to make your list of followers [...]
