Mark Zuckerberg's fan page has been hacked several times in the past couple days, so its fitting that Facebook is rolling out a several new security measures. And this being Facebook, the new measures are in part social. One new feature, social authentication, works kind of like the standard CAPTCHA, which asks users to type in the text they see... MORE >
Digital tracking firm Bluecava made headlines earlier this year when it was reported that the company had collected unique IDs on more than 200 million devices like smartphones and laptops. Today Bluecava announced that executives from big name companies like Facebook, HP and Mastercard had joined its newly formed advisory... MORE >
The Obama Administration is planning to give the Commerce Department control over a new effort to create a universal Internet ID for every American. According to CBS, the gig was given to the Commerce Department, as opposed to the NSA, to ease concerns that government intelligence agencies were learning too much about the average citizen. Wait...aren't the online advertising companies the ones building the most detailed profiles of users? Oh well, moving... MORE >
Apple's obsessive control over the apps that can be sold through its online store has come back to bite them. Apple, Pandora and Dictionary.com were sued in federal court Monday for allegedly helping advertisers create secret profiles of iPhone users without their... MORE >
The government's announcement that they may create a Do Not Track registry for the web, similar to the offline Do Not Call system, has sent the digital advertising industry scrambling to clean its... MORE >
Not satisfied with munching on the cookies of personal info users share through their computers, ad companies are clamoring for more detailed profiles. As the newest installment of The Journal's What They Know series details, the next step is creating a digital fingerprint for every computing device in the... MORE >
The clever folks at Gizmodo used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain body scan images of one hundred citizens and have published what they claim are naked images from the TSA body scanners. Uncharacteristically for a Gawker Media property, the site had the decency (or prudery...or legal discomfort) to remove any "identifying features." You may remember that Gawker Media was recently embroiled in a controversy over their publication of crime scene photos.... MORE >
Following a series of Wall Street Journal articles that highlighted the ways in which some third-party applications were sharing user data with advertisers, Facebook has declared a zero-tolerance policy for any developers who sell information to data... MORE >
Got an inkling that your husband or girlfriend might be carrying on an outside affair? A new Android app will nab the culprit. The New York Times' Nick Bilton profiles Secret SMS Replicator, an app that, once installed on a phone, hides in the background and sends out a copy of every trystful text and sext to the person who installed... MORE >
Stop into almost any coffee shop in New York and you'll see dozens of strangers sharing the same unsecured WiFi network. If you had Firesheep, you could see every time one of these folks signs onto an unsecured site like Facebook or Twitter, than grab their username and password for yourself. Read Write Web profiled Firesheep today, and the details are... MORE >
A week after running a front-page story about how Facebook was leaking users' private data to advertisers, The Wall Street Journal has published basically the exact same story about MySpace, but neglected to give it the same fanfare in print or on the... MORE >
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