Apple’s gift of a free U2 album for iTunes users? Turns out it’s “free” as in “compulsory”…
Daily Archives: September 12, 2014
Target tops the list of most epic privacy fails
Our readers ranked Target’s data breach ahead of Adobe, Snapchat, Google Glass, and Talking Angela for the biggest privacy failure of the past year.
Serial hacker pleads guilty to bank bitcoin blackmail
A 22-year-old with a lengthy history of convictions pleaded guilty last week to charges of blackmail and fraud, after threatening to reveal details of thousands of phished bank accounts if the bank involved refused to pay up.
US government “threatened” Yahoo with daily $250,000 fines over user data
In the post-Snowden era many web firms came in for criticism over their apparent willingness to bend over for the NSA as the agency went on a massive data grab. Now, however, Yahoo has revealed how much it would have cost the company to disregard government data requests – a cool quarter of a million dollars per day.
‘Yelp Bill’ protects Californians from getting pants sued off over reviews
California has passed a bill that protects customers from getting penalized by companies after writing bad reviews. Yelp’s response: Yippee!
Facebook tests Snapchat-like vanishing act for posts
Faceboook’s going Mission: Impossible, ephemeral-message on us, having confirmed that it’s testing an auto-delete feature that will let users schedule their posts’ demise. 
85% of apps not up to scratch on privacy, study finds
A coordinated study of apps run by a group of national privacy and data protection bodies from around the world has found that the majority are failing to provide adequate information on the privacy implications of using the app.