Tech Google Street View is in trouble with authorities again. This time, one of its vehicles was halted and searched yesterday near Paris.
Google’s Street View service became highly controversial when Germany learned that GoogleGoogle was (inadvertently,…
August 26, 2010 View Comments
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Social Media Alexander Hotz is a freelance multimedia journalist and public radio junkie based in New York City. Currently he teaches digital media at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Follow Alex on Twitter at @hotzington.
The release of
August 25, 2010 View Comments
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Social Media In addition to talk of what the arrival of Facebook Places means for startups like Foursquare, the aftermath of last night’s launch has given rise to a number of questions about privacy.
Notably, the ACLU published a
August 19, 2010 View Comments
Social Media Earlier this evening, Facebook formally announced its geolocation component, Facebook Places, and it has already sparked concerns from a major privacy advocate.
The ACLU of Northern California has issued its preliminary response to the features…
August 18, 2010 View Comments
Mobile Foursquare has introduced new privacy settings and updated the pages it uses to explain them, possibly in anticipation of Facebook’s rumored location service announcement tomorrow.
The new settings allow you to hide your e-mail address and phone number from…
August 17, 2010 View Comments
Business Elias Bizannes is the chairperson and executive director of the DataPortability Project. He is also the founder of the StartupBus, the Silicon Beach community, and works at search engine startup Vast.com, Inc.
Data Portability…
August 12, 2010 View Comments
Tech Google Korea’s offices were raided today by local police as part of an investigation into the Street View data collection debacle.
The New York Times reports that officials are concerned that the data collected by Street View vehicles dispatched…
August 10, 2010 View Comments
Tech According to various reports, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is considering instituting a “do not track” list, similar in concept to the Do Not Call registry, for Internet users who want their browsing activity hidden from online advertisers.
If…
August 2, 2010 View Comments
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Social Media Sure Facebook privacy issues can be frustrating, but what’s the alternative? With more than 400 million users, no other social media platform has been able to touch Facebook’s grip on person-to-person networking. But rumors have already started to fly…
July 9, 2010 View Comments
Tech Google’s troubles stemming from the Street View incident, where Google collected Wi-Fi data from private, unencrypted networks, are far from over.
After an investigation into the incident, Australia’sAustralia privacy commissioner Karen Curtis said GoogleGoogle broke Australia’s…
July 9, 2010 View Comments
Tech An Argentinian hacker named Ch Russo claims that he and two associates have found several SQL injection vulnerabilities in The Pirate Bay’s database, which granted him access to all user information, including usernames and e-mails.
According…
July 8, 2010 View Comments
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Before FacebookFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said that privacy was dead, MashableMashable founder Pete Cashmore was already sounding that call. We’ve put so much…
July 3, 2010 View Comments
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Mobile Update: a Google spokesperson has reached out to us and gave us the following statement:
“This report falsely suggests that AndroidAndroid users don’t have control over which apps access their data. Not only must each Android app gets…
June 23, 2010 View Comments
Apple Apple’s new privacy policy contains a small new paragraph of big importance: it gives the company license to store “the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device” and share it with “partners and licensees.” As if we haven’t…
June 21, 2010 View Comments
Social Media Ori Brafman is the co-author of Click: The Magic of Instant Connections, published by Random House this week.
With all the news about FacebookFacebook’s never-ending privacy problems and the exodus of angry users, has the…
June 17, 2010 View Comments
Mobile An intrepid Android user has found a bug in the HTC Incredible that raises some potential privacy concerns.
As BGR reports, the HTC Sense UI takes screenshots of your web browser for its bookmark widget that…
June 17, 2010 View Comments
Tech Google’s apparently inadvertent practice of collecting Wi-Fi data from unencrypted networks will haunt the company for a long time, it seems.
After being called out and investigated about the incident in Europe and
June 16, 2010 View Comments
Social Media A new service called Yahoo Pulse will one-up Google Buzz by offering privacy tools and integration with Facebook newsfeeds on the Yahoo home page, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The Pulse site will behave a…
June 6, 2010 View Comments
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Social Media A new service called Yahoo Pulse will one-up Google Buzz by offering privacy tools and integration with Facebook newsfeeds on the Yahoo home page, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The Pulse site will behave a…
August 19, 2010 View Comments
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