At least two Samsung smartphone models have reportedly spontaneously started sending photographs to contacts without being asked to do so.
Tag Archives: Privacy
Facebook accidentally unblocks people
It’s fixed now, thankfully: be it airheads who post baloney or stalkers, all blocked users deserve to STAY blocked.
Someone else is reading your Gmails
Remember when privacy advocates used to worry about Google scanning your email? Well now, they have another problem on their hands: real people reading them.
Tool scrubs hidden tracking data from printed documents
Just because a document isn’t digital doesn’t mean it doesn’t contain metadata. Printed documents often have their own hidden details, and now German researchers have developed tools to help you scrub them clean.
Facebook gave certain companies special access to customer data
What do Mail.ru, Nissan, Spotify, and Nike have in common? They were all afforded temporary extensions to access private Facebook data API.
Brave adds Tor to reinvent anonymous browsing
The Brave privacy browser has added another feature to bolster its blossoming anti-surveillance credentials – the ability to use the Tor anonymity system by launching a tab.
Facebook and Google accused of manipulating us with “dark patterns”
Privacy advocates are concerned that tech giants are using design patterns that discourage us from exercising our rights to privacy.
Are you happy with this technology that Facebook’s developing?
New patents suggest Facebook’s going to soon know when you’re asleep, when you’re awake, and is going to have a good guess at when you’re going to die.
Twitter introduces another way for you to better secure your account
Twitter has added the ability to authenticate to the service using hardware tokens such as Yubico’s YubiKey.
US authorities now need warrant for your cellphone location data
Privacy activists scored a legal victory this week after the Supreme Court ruled it unlawful for law enforcement and federal agencies to access cellphone location records without a warrant.