Path recently sparked a huge controversy over user privacy violations in popular App Store apps, and the media firestorm that resulted has now promoted The California Attorney...Apple, Google, And Others Now Required To Give App Privacy Details Before You Download
Path recently sparked a huge controversy over user privacy violations in popular App Store apps, and the media firestorm that resulted has now promoted The California Attorney...iPhone and Android apps now required to have privacy policies
The makers of the most widely used mobile app stores have agreed to comply with a California law requiring mobile apps that collect personal information to have a privacy policy. California Attorney General Kamala Harris announce...
Google now facing class-action suit over Safari cookie circumvention
A class-action complaint has now been filed against Google for its circumvention of Safari's privacy features. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for Delaware, accuses Google of willfully violating of the Federal Wiretap...
Google tricks Internet Explorer into accepting tracking cookies, Microsoft claims
Google was caught last week bypassing default privacy settings in the Safari browser in order to serve up tracking cookies. The company claimed the situation was an accident and limited only to the Safari Web browser, but to...
Feds urge court to reject laptop encryption appeal
The government is urging a federal appeals court not to entertain an appeal from a bank-fraud defendant who has been ordered to decrypt her laptop so its contents can be used in her criminal case.
Colorado...
Feds urge court to reject laptop encryption appeal
The government is urging a federal appeals court not to entertain an appeal from a bank-fraud defendant who has been ordered to decrypt her laptop so its contents can be used in her criminal case.
Colorado...
Google explains how and why Safari privacy settings were circumvented
In response to a Wall Street Journal report claiming that Google bypassed Safari privacy settings to track ads on both Apple computers and iOS devices, the company released a statement today from Rachel Whetstone, SVP of Communications and Public Pol...
Google Tracked Millions Of iOS & Mac Safari Users Against Their Wishes
What with the whole Path address book debacle, this isn’t a good week to be caught up in a user privacy scandal on iOS as far as public perception is concerned. Google better batten down the hatches then, as it has just been discovered...Location tracking of GSM cellphones: now easier (and cheaper) than ever
Computer scientists have devised a low-cost way to surreptitiously tease out key location details of people carrying cellphones that are connected to older carrier networks.
The attack, described in a research paper (PDF) ...
Google allegedly bypassed privacy settings to track user browsing in Safari
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google has been bypassing privacy settings in Safari intended to block websites from tracking user activity across the Internet. Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer discovered that Google had been implementing code...
FTC criticizes poor privacy disclosures in apps for kids, says industry must improve standards
Let’s take a quick break from the hordes of Mountain Lion OSX news to talk about privacy issues within apps…again. However, this time the spotlight is on children’s apps in both Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Marketplace. The Federal Trade Commission released a report today (PDF) based on a survey that found apps for children do...
