Yikes. Path, which got in trouble around this time last year for stealing your entire address book without your permission, might have another privacy issue on its hands. The app will automatically geotag your photos even when you've completely disabled Location Services for the Path app. It's basically doing something you explicitly told it not to do. Read More >>
Featured comment by pro-crastinate:
"aah, lovely to see gizmodo continuing the disproportionate amount of articles on path and lego. (something I highly doubt the majority of readers ever..." More »
WhatsApp, the instant messaging client beloved of people too cheap to text, appears to contravene international privacy laws because of the way it forces users to grant it access to their entire address book. Read More >>
Featured comment by The_Alpha_Gamer:
""WhatsApp, the instant messaging client beloved of people too cheap to text"
There are other reasons to use it too you know? Like text's not being ..." More »
Google's about to be hit by a huge privacy storm in the UK, thanks to a group legal case that claims it ignored privacy rules to track up to 10 million iPhone, iPad and Safari users. Read More >>
Ouch, talk about putting the boot in. The Information Commissioner's Office has decided that Sony should have done more to prevent all that PSN hacking back in 2011, which saw millions of users details, including credit cards and addresses, compromised. It's slapped Sony with a huge £250,000 fine. Read More >>
The launch of Mega is putting a big emphasis on encryption, but it's not like that kind of security is anything new. It's just a pain sometimes. Do you ever go out of your way to encrypt your files? Do you think it's worth the effort? The risk of losing that password and being screwed? Do you have any urge to start? Read More >>
Featured comment by emmanuel.makris:
"My files were still there when I flashed my old Desire. But don't take my word for it; you phone runs different software version on different hardwar..." More »
You have too many friends—I promise you. Really. You've been collecting them for probably half a decade, like barnacles on the side of a slow boat, and they're holding you back. They're also threatening your privacy. End it. Read More >>
Featured comment by chootastic:
"No, you can make it unsearchable, and not viewable to anyone but your friends. Which ive done, seeing as i had a stalker at the time." More »
The Transportation Security Administration has announced that it will remove the controversial "naked image" body scanners from US airports because developers can't write software to make the images less revealing. Read More >>
Featured comment by furstyferret81:
"I work at Heathrow and we already got rid of these scanners after a long trial. I can assure you there's nothing titillating about spending hours sitt..." More »
Tweaking your Activity Log just became a necessary and tedious new part of being a Facebook user. Thanks to the service's new Graph Search feature, all that profile info you've painstakingly updated over the years (employer, home town, relationship status, movie likes, etc) and all the photos you've added over time, are now to become data in a database of the social network's trillion connections between a billion users. Read More >>
Featured comment by dja357:
"Yeah. The one that annoys me is the people who complain about Facebook but then don't quit it.
If its so terrible why use it lol." More »
Twitter is modern-day people-watching. Anytime you check it, you see what a person is thinking or doing or saying. But it's not all happening in a digital vacuum, they're on break at work tweeting about their boss; they're outside a hospital tweeting about their day; they're always somewhere tweeting about something. This photo project, Geolocations, by Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman show where people are when they send out tweets. It's completing the picture. Read More >>
Java isn't good for your for your computer's health right now. It can mess it up pretty bad. Bad enough that the US Department of Homeland Security is warning its citizens to turn it off. OK, but how do you do that? Fortunately, it's not that hard. Read More >>
Featured comment by Kat Hannaford:
"We aim to publish about 40 posts a day here on the UK site -- bear in mind we do about 15 UK-original articles each day. With the US site publishing o..." More »
It's come to light that Nokia's Xpress Browser — used on its Asha and Lumia handsets — routes your secure and encrypted HTTPS data through its servers and temporarily decrypts it. Read More >>
Bitdefender's Clueful, once an iOS app in its own right that Apple apparently took offence to, is now back as a webapp. Use it to find out if your apps are spying on you, storing your personal information, and sending it anywhere you might not want them to. Essential for the paranoid; interesting for the curious. [Clueful via TUAW] Read More >>
Featured comment by NicholasTimothyJones:
"I already know that no-one is spying on my iPhone because I do not have an iPhone.
Does the App Store not do what Google Play does and tell you wha..." More »
Future changes to EU privacy rules could have a devastating effect on the ad-funded model favoured by the internet giants, with planned restrictions on data harvesting signalling the end of the online advertising bubble. Read More >>
Featured comment by chootastic:
"Reading the source article, they used the word that never fails to annoy me - 'expert'. What expert? What are their qualifications? It even says they'..." More »
Featured comment by snapper.fishes:
"The geocode can be off by miles. The GPS takes time to warm up/catch satellite signals, but when people take photos they don't usually wait long enoug..." More »
It was inevitable. Drones are in ever-wider use by the military, and some day they might deliver you food, but it looks like they'll also be the private, flying-camera spies for private companies too. That's what Japanese security company Secom is banking on with its new private security quadrotor. Read More >>
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