Articles Tagged ‘privacy’
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Facebook's Acquisition Of Instagram Just Another Question Mark For Internet Privacy
BY A.T. Faust III on Tue April 10th, 2012
Private Instagram users are facing the mother of all reality checks.
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Your iPhone Password Can Be Bypassed By Law Enforcement In Two Minutes
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Wed March 28th, 2012
A new tool allows law enforcement officials to bypass iDevice passwords in as little as two minutes. Crossing the line or justified?
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Why Does The New iPad’s Dictation Feature Require A Wi-Fi Connection?
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Mon March 19th, 2012
One of the key features of the new iPad is Dictation, a Siri-lite application that turns voice to text. However, before you begin using Dictation, you should first consider what it means to your privacy, according to ZDNet.
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California Attorney General Strikes Privacy Deal With Apple, Others
BY A.T. Faust III on Wed February 22nd, 2012
California's Kamala D. Harris works with tech companies to lay out a plan for privacy reform.
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AppGuide Updated: Photo Organization Apps
BY Karen Freeman on Mon November 28th, 2011
The iOS 5 update did bring some photo organization features, but for some people, these features are just not enough. The apps here can help you organize the photos in your camera roll by album, categories and tags.
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Malicious Charging Stations Might Be Stealing Your Data
BY Alexander Vaughn on Sun August 21st, 2011
Did you know that charging stations can h4ck you?
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Apple Deprecates UDID Access - Will Prevent Creepy Developers From Tracking You
BY Alexander Vaughn on Sat August 20th, 2011
Apple has "deprecated" third-party access to your Unique Device Identifier (UDID) in iOS 5.
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All Your Contacts Are Belong To Facebook
BY Alexander Vaughn on Sat August 13th, 2011
If you've been using the iOS Facebook app, prepare yourself to have a very creepy surprise. As we're learning today, Facebook has been somewhat discreetly taking advantage of users who use the sync feature of their app to upload your address book to Facebook.
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Report: Most Apps Stink At Keeping Our Data Safe — Find Out Who's Bad
BY Alexander Vaughn on Wed August 10th, 2011
According to a report released this week, the measures most apps take to protect your data are often not up to snuff.
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Safari In iOS 5 Adds "Private Browsing" - Easily Protect Your Privacy While Surfing The Web
BY Joe White on Wed June 08th, 2011
In iOS 5, Apple has added a "private browsing" mode to Safari, which users can activate in the Settings app.
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Apple Releases iOS 4.3.3 To The World - Stops Your iDevice From Constantly Tracking You
BY Alexander Vaughn on Wed May 04th, 2011
Way ahead of the rumored release two weeks from now, Apple has just released a new version of iOS worldwide.
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Apple And Google Are Being Investigated Over App Privacy Concerns - Report
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Mon April 04th, 2011
According to MarketWatch, a federal grand jury is investigating Apple and Google over information sharing by mobile applications. This information came to light when online music service Pandora, Inc. received a subpoena earlier this year.
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Apple Store Representatives Could Soon Know You're There Thanks To An App
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Mon October 25th, 2010
If you want to be treated to truly great and personal customer service when at an Apple Store, there could soon be an app for that. However, with this great service could come the loss of some privacy. Read more...
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New Form Of HTML5 Cookies Now Tracking iOS Devices
BY Alexander Vaughn on Tue September 07th, 2010
It's generally well known that clearing your browser's cookie stash from time to time will keep you a bit more anonymous. Also, modern browsers have become a lot more restrictive and can deal with cookies relatively well. Yet, as browsers and users are getting smarter at preserving privacy, so are advertisers at tracking, and they're now taking advantage of unregulated HTML5 features.
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Apple Answers iAds Privacy Concerns
BY Alexander Vaughn on Mon July 19th, 2010
Apple made a few changes to its privacy policy at the end of June along with the release of iOS 4 and iAds. The debacle motivated two senators; Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas), to write to Steve Jobs to ask for some more details. Surprisingly, their concerns were answered by Apple through a very detailed 13 page document made public today.
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Review: Picture Safe
BY Michael Jeans on Sat March 13th, 2010
Picture Safe has been the #1 privacy app in the Utility category for over a year now. For good reason, too, Picture Safe has tons of features for keeping your...err...secret photos, secret. It does have some flaws, though.
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Need To Send Private Texts? There's An App for That - TigerText
BY Kiet Chieng on Tue March 02nd, 2010
Anyone familiar with Mission: Impossible has heard the famous lines, "this message will self destruct in 5 seconds." Now there's an app equivalent with TigerText. TigerText works simply by allowing the user control over sending
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How Much Do Your Apps Really Know About You?
BY Alexander Vaughn on Thu February 04th, 2010
Every now and then we hear about the shady way some app handles our private data, just like Dragon Dictation, for example, uploads your address book to improve its service or MogoRoad used to gather phone
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