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Tag Archives: smartphones
Smartphone location data can be used to identify and track anyone
In today’s smartphone economy, hiding your location has become a major challenge.
Your phone’s sensors could be used as a cookie you can’t delete
Researchers have found that a phone’s gyroscope, accelerometer and other sensors create a unique fingerprint.
What are you more afraid of – sharks or selfies?
People have died taking selfies while posing with live grenades, falling from bridges, and running with bulls. Is death by selfie really a big problem?
Surprise! People choose predictable Android lockscreen patterns
New research studying how people create lockscreen patterns suggests that they aren’t a secure alternative to passcodes at all.
Android M will give app users a lot better control over their data privacy
Android’s next version will finally give users the same type of control over app permissions as iOS.
FTC sanctions phone location tracking company for not allowing customer opt-out
Nomi has been ordered to tidy up its business practices as part of a settlement with the FTC over its tracking of retail customers’ smartphones.
Yes, your smartphone camera can be used to spy on you
A researcher claims to have written an Android app that takes photos and videos using the device camera while the screen is turned off – so you wouldn’t even know the camera was spying on you.