Yesterday, I beat up Apple. Today, I am beating up Google. I am an equal opportunity beater-upper. When you buy an Android phone, it backs your junk to the cloud unless you go out of your way to tell it not to. That way if you lose your phone or buy a new one, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In March I wrote about Max Schrems one man war against Facebook and their privacy-stealing policy (see post here). He originally went to the Irish data protection commissioner but withdrew that complaint after it became clear that nothing would get resolved in that venue for years. Then he went to the Vienna District Court saying […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As if Uber didn’t have enough challenges, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a complaint with the FTC against Uber. EPIC says, in it’s complaint, that Uber’s new privacy policy allows Uber to collect precise customer location information, even if the app is running in the background or the customer has turned off their […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired wrote a piece about how Apple and Google are trying hard to kill off apps. In part, I buy what Wired says – that it is about the user experience and if you can seamlessly integrate that experience into the platform (iPhone or Android) then you don’t really care about the app. I think […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week the FBI and DoJ testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on IT, asking for an encryption back door (or as the NSA has said they prefer, a front door). They did not get a very welcome reception. In fact, Rep Lieu suggested that they “just follow the damn […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A European security research group tested a group of 2,000 apps from the Play Store and found they connected to 250,000 different URLs from 2,000 different domains. They found one app in the sample, Music Volume Eq, an app designed to control volume, connects to almost 2,000 distinct URLs. The study said that about 10 […]
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