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by Andrew Martonik
May 13, 2013
'I would lose my job, be fired, and be sued to death' for reading someone's Gmail
Executive Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, recently fielded an interview with Peter Sagal of NPR to...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 05, 2013
Facebook answers important user privacy questions. Read them before you install or buy anything.
A lot of folks have serious privacy concerns about Facebook's new Home application. Questions...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 01, 2013
Alma Whitten, Google's director of privacy, product and engineering, decides to step aside
As Forbes first reported earlier in the day, and Google has now confirmed, Alma Whitten i...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 08, 2013
The folks at Verizon have put up a couple of interesting apps lists. Of course there's the requisite "Must have apps", but they are taking things a step further in app recommendations....
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 18, 2013
A couple days ago we told you about Inaugural 2013 -- a very nicely done app from the Presidential Inaugural Committee that had a pretty peculiar privacy policy, and on the surface looked like a non...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 16, 2013
The Presidential Inauguration is next Monday, and I was all geared up to tell everyone about the Inaugural 2013 app from AT&T and PIC. It's a beautifully done application, has received rave ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 07, 2012
Delta Airlines has updated its Android app, bringing $2,500,000,000 worth of new features. All in the form of a privacy policy.
It's still the same app as before, letting you check i...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 01, 2012
What does your mobile carrier know about you? Just how much information do they collect? And what the hell does it look like? German Green politician Malte Spitz has a brilliant TED talk showing wha...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 02, 2012
As soon as the schedule for Google I/O 2012's developer sessions was announced, I knew the Security and Privacy in Android Apps session was going to be a must-attend session. The Internet and it...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 24, 2012
Thermalx, in our T-Mobile HTC One S Q&A, writes,
I thought carriers had about stopped with the whole Carrier IQ thing. But according to this T-Mo doc, the One S has Carrier IQ, any thoughts ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 02, 2012
Privacy is on the tip of everyone's tongues these days, whether it's news about breaches, or applications overstepping their bounds, or buggy operating system-level software that could possi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 19, 2012
Verizon over the weekend dropped word that an impending update to the LG Revolution would include a Verizon Remote Diagnostics app — a "new customer care solution to improve dev...
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by Jared DiPane
Mar 15, 2012
Sometimes having a cell phone as your main line can be more of an inconvenience than a convenience, especially when it comes to unwanted unsolicited phone calls. Google Voice has offered the...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 14, 2012
Here's a security and privacy tip that many of us forget about, yet is really easy to manage -- geo-location data in the pictures you take with your Android phone. Modern digital cameras that ha...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 12, 2012
Privacy is a hot subject across the Internet lately, and we think it's high time to dissect the mountains of information and pick out what's relevant amidst all the FUD and nonsense out ther...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 11, 2012
It was a question I knew I'd get this week. Wasn't sure when, and I wasn't exactly sure what the ramifications would be.
"I have 4G now?!?!?!"
That was a text from...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 05, 2012
Oy vey! According to a report from Reuters (via Phonescoop), U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., has called for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate "reports that applicati...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 05, 2012
Google is continuing to build on its mobile search experience with the launch of a new section for recently-searched places on its mobile homepage. If you've got Web History enabled in your Goog...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 01, 2012
Let's file this under "anything for a story about Android". The New York Times has decided that Android is also "vulnerable" to apps being able to see your pictures, just lik...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 01, 2012
Google's controversial new privacy policy goes into effect today, and depending on which part of the Internet you're in, it's either a blessing or an act of war against our personal info...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 27, 2012
Carrier IQ cares. Or, rather, for Carrier IQ, it's all about care. The much-maligned California analytics company has weathered the Great Privacy Scandal of 2011 and today at Mobile World Congre...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 23, 2012
So Amazon, Apple, Google, HP, Microsoft and RIM have all decided to hold hands and form a circle around the California attorney general and agreed to privacy principles designed to bring the in...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 17, 2012
OK, folks. You've read Jerry's excellent explanation of Android app permssions, right? It's important. You need to know this stuff.
Back? Good. Now it's time for a little brutal hon...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 16, 2012
And how we, the users, still need to take responsibility
There's been a lot of news lately about a lapse in either security or judgment -- both, really -- at Apple that allows iOS applicatio...
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by Jared DiPane
Feb 14, 2012
In this day and age carrying a cell phone can become somewhat of a burden. You can receive countless phone calls from people you don't want to talk to, unsolicited text messages and those ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 11, 2012
Google late Friday night disabled the ability to provision new Google Preaid Cards, fallout from the discovery of a flaw in the Google Wallet app. The gist is that if someone were to find your phone...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 03, 2012
With the news today that Motorola accidentally shipped out 100 refurbished Xoom tablets without properly wiping the previous owners' information, it's worth a reminder of what you need to do...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 03, 2012
Ready Cory H just dropped word that he's received an e-mail from Woot.com with some slightly troubling news, but also with a very cool resolution. Cory purchased a refurbished Motorola Xoom t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 01, 2012
Google, having already explained to the boys and girls inside the Beltway that they don't need to go all Chicken Little over its upcoming new consolidated privacy policy, today took aim at Redmo...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 01, 2012
Japanese mobile network KDDI says it'll stop using push notification ads on its Android handsets, following some recent online controversy. Late last month it emerged that KDDI was using an upda...
