Maybe Your Private Messages Aren’t So Private: Facebook in Class Action Lawsuit for Scanning Messages
Whether you like or dislike Facebook, one thing is for sure: Facebook’s drive to monetize is making the social media…
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Facebook Knows You’re Concerned About Your Privacy, Introduces Privacy Basics
Social media giant Facebook is aware of the fact that millions of consumers are becoming more concerned about their online…
Apple Bolsters iCloud Security Notifications
Following the recent celebrity photo leak believed to be the result of an iCloud security breach, Apple is going to…
Hey, Smartphone: Are You Stalking Me? I Mean Seriously, Are You?
Apparently, smartphone users aren’t fans of in-store tracking. Seriously. It’s as if a grand chorus is rising up with one…
Evidence Shows that Path Violated TCPA with Mobile SPAM
The US District Court of Illinois recently rejected the dismissal argument that Path, the social networking service, put on the…
Chinese Media Threatens Apple, Google
In what proved to be one of the most intense and undeniably awkward statements put forward in the press on…
EFF: Tech Companies Becoming More Transparent
A new report from there Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital-privacy group, reveals that a growing number of communications companies have…
Spoofed Emails Still Arriving After AOL Mail Was Hacked
AOL Mail was hacked a few weeks ago and users are still seeing emails arrive in their inbox from spoofed…
Edward Snowden’s Words Still Looming Large Over SXSW
In an extremely rare public talk (via the web, of course) Edward Snowden, the infamous NSA leaker and current fugitive…
Privacy Tools Now Used By 25% Percent of the Global Online Population
New reports show that Internet users are taking more and more steps to safeguard their privacy and that fully 25%…