The controversy caused by the removal of many links from Google has led to some of them now being reinstated. The issue came about thanks to the internet giant starting to comply with the European Court of Justice “right to be forgotten” ruling. The initial batch of removed links, to articles in the Guardian newspaper and other sites, included details on the former...
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Most of us use social networking sites to share our ideas, media and to chat with friends. The bad thing about it is it is not very private and our personal information is not really that secure. Now, a new iOS app called Glassboard lets users set up and manage private groups. The Glassboard app was developed by Sepia Labs and according to the company, the app was designed...
It seems that file hosting service Dropbox can’t take a break from bad press patterns of the last few weeks. After a breach of security the firm upset the apple cart again last week when they announced a change in Terms and Conditions last Friday, which they received lots of negative comments for. The company updated the original news post on their blog twice in...
User data and privacy is once again in the headlines, today it’s Googles Android operating system under the spotlight after their various apps on the Android Marketthieve potential access to sensitive user information. Disturbingly 99% of Android owners could have been affected by accessing the internet over an insecure network, the flaw was worked into various apps...
If you are a world famous celebrity and you are thinking about taking out a press gagging order – known as a privacy injunction or super injunction – then you might think twice about it after seeing the latest hullabaloo on Twitter. Basically, if you take out one of these court rulings then the press are forbidden from even mentioning it, never mind writing or talking...
The controversy caused by the recent discovery of the iPhone and iPad “location tracking file” continues with the new theory that it is actually a bug which Apple should be looking to fix. This actually correlates with the comments made by researchers who discovered the code. Stunned iPhone and iPad owners have only just found out that all of their movements are tracked...
When Apple rolled out location services on the iPhone many people questioned whether this could lead to a big brother style society with people being able to track your every move. For this reason many users decided to switch off location services although new research has shown this doesn’t make a blind bit of difference as Apple has been secretly collecting data anyway. The...
If rumours are true then the arduous task of tagging photos on Facebook may be a thing of the past. A brand new system is set to be filtered through to US users over the new few weeks that will automate the whole process by identifying an individual’s face and using that data to tag other photos, so basically facial recognition of photographs. The new addition was...
Google has agreed to remove all the data and personal details scraped via their Street View cars from UK homeowners Wi-Fi routers. For some unknown reason they have 9 months to do so, imagine what can be done with that loose data in 9 months – hmm. The whole saga started some months ago when news broke that Google had been collecting personal data (accidentally) and...
Google and Facebook have had privacy woes of late, Google got into hot water over their ‘accidental’ collection of private information with their Google Street view cars and Facebook has been in trouble because a third party developer was caught mishandling users information last week. This is by no means the first privacy issues the two brands have had but are the...