You can’t use the recent “ask Siri” trick to sneak past the iOS 9 Lock screen any more.
Monthly Archives: September 2015
Snowden joins Twitter, follows the agency that follows everyone else
Edward Snowden signs up for Twitter, promises cat pics and asks about border control on Mars.
Selfies, sharks…and yet another lock screen bug [Chet Chat Podcast 216]
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… Enjoy the latest episode of our weekly podcast!
Google to give marketers the ability to target us via email address
Customer Match will enable advertisers to get to us via our email addresses, which can be matched to signed-in users of its search engine, Gmail or YouTube.
Your personal cloud of microbes could one day be used to profile you
Every time we sneeze, cough, scratch, fart, or touch something, we leave behind traces of ourselves. Could this microbial evidence one day be used to identify and surveil us?
Windows 10 is NOT spying on you, Microsoft says
…but Windows will continue to collect your data, be it about system and application crashes or personalization data collected by Cortana.
Which web browser do you trust? [Poll]
We no longer choose our web browsers based on bells and whistles. These days its all about privacy and security and we’d like to know which browser (and which vendor) you trust to be your companion on the web.
Take a selfie, post it up/The next five years you’ll…be in prison?
The Fifth Amendment says you don’t have to incriminate yourself. But it’s your choice…
No, you will NOT be charged £5.99 to keep your Facebook posts private!
Another day, another “post this message” hoax!
300 million non-suspects could be caught up in airline passenger info grab, warns privacy chief
European law makers want data on all airline travelers to be available to intelligence agencies – a move that breaches EU privacy laws, he said.