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Lawsuit alleges Bose's headphone app exfiltrates your listening habits to creepy data-m... - 0 views

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Ian Forrester on 19 Apr 17

" Bose's $350 wireless headphones need an app to "get the most" out of them, and this app monitors everything you listen to -- the names of the podcasts, the music, videos, etc -- and sends them to Bose without your permission, according to a lawsuit filed this week in Chicago by Kyle Zak."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">" Bose's $350 wireless headphones need an app to "get the most" out of them, and this app monitors everything you listen to -- the names of the podcasts, the music, videos, etc -- and sends them to Bose without your permission, according to a lawsuit filed this week in Chicago by Kyle Zak."</div>

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Google engineer apologizes after Photos app tags two black people as gorillas | The Verge - 0 views

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Ian Forrester on 12 Jun 16

Google came under fire this week after its new Photos app categorized photos in one of the most racist ways possible. On June 28th, computer programmer Jacky Alciné found that the feature kept tagging pictures of him and his girlfriend as "gorillas."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Google came under fire this week after its new Photos app categorized photos in one of the most racist ways possible. On June 28th, computer programmer Jacky Alciné found that the feature kept tagging pictures of him and his girlfriend as "gorillas." </div>

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Nintendo's Charming 'Miitomo' Could Be the Most Brilliant Data Mining App Ever | Mother... - 0 views

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It sounds innocent enough. But users are growing suspicious of the app's whimsical, canned questions, many of which read like a marketing survey.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">It sounds innocent enough. But users are growing suspicious of the app's whimsical, canned questions, many of which read like a marketing survey.</div>

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Fridges and televisions are being hacked and turned into spambots | Apps and Software |... - 0 views

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BBC News - Dating apps found 'leaking' location data - 0 views

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Ian Forrester on 19 Jan 15

"Many mobile dating apps can be hacked to expose the exact location of users, warn security experts. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Many mobile dating apps can be hacked to expose the exact location of users, warn security experts. "</div>

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How dating app Grindr makes it easy to stalk 5 million gay men | Ars Technica - 0 views

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"Location sharing allows user whearabouts to be tracked around the clock."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Location sharing allows user whearabouts to be tracked around the clock."</div>

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Samsung smart TVs inserting ads into third-party apps | Ars Technica - 0 views

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People with smart TVs from Samsung have been complaining that the electronics maker is inserting Pepsi ads during the playback of their own, locally stored movies.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">People with smart TVs from Samsung have been complaining that the electronics maker is inserting Pepsi ads during the playback of their own, locally stored movies.</div>

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Ian Forrester on 24 Feb 15

"There are many articles circulating about all the privacy incursions of Facebooks new messenger app but I don't think they could all be true. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"There are many articles circulating about all the privacy incursions of Facebooks new messenger app but I don't think they could all be true. "</div>

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Anti-Social App Design ← Terence Eden's Blog - 0 views

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Uber wants to feed you all kinds of content during your next ride | The Verge - 0 views

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Ian Forrester on 12 Jan 16

Uber, realizing it had hundreds of millions of people in its back seats as a captive audience, just announced it will allow third-party apps the ability to serve up notifications, content, or ads to its users during their trips. The notifications would be customized to the length and locations of each person's ride, but only with permission from the user.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Uber, realizing it had hundreds of millions of people in its back seats as a captive audience, just announced it will allow third-party apps the ability to serve up notifications, content, or ads to its users during their trips. The notifications would be customized to the length and locations of each person's ride, but only with permission from the user.</div>

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Activision Blizzard pays employees for health tracking | GamesIndustry.biz - 0 views

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"Company gives $1 a day in gift cards to employees using a pregnancy-tracking app that allows HR to monitor aggregated data"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Company gives $1 a day in gift cards to employees using a pregnancy-tracking app that allows HR to monitor aggregated data"</div>

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Facebook attacked over app that reveals period dates of its users | Technology | The Gu... - 0 views

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This EULA Will Make You Rethink Every App and Online Service You Use | WIRED - 0 views

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Ian Forrester on 10 Aug 16

Within two weeks of its release last month, Pokemon Go, the augmented reality gaming sensation, surpassed, by one estimate, Twitter, Facebook, and Netflix in its day-to-day popularity on Android phones. Over on Apple devices, the game was downloaded more times in its first week than any app that came before it.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Within two weeks of its release last month, Pokemon Go, the augmented reality gaming sensation, surpassed, by one estimate, Twitter, Facebook, and Netflix in its day-to-day popularity on Android phones. Over on Apple devices, the game was downloaded more times in its first week than any app that came before it.</div>

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Karen | Blast Theory - 0 views

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Ian Forrester on 08 May 15

Karen is a life coach and she's happy to help you work through a few things in your life. You interact with Karen through an app. When you begin, she asks you some questions about your outlook on the world to get an understanding of you. In fact, her questions are drawn from psychological profiling questionnaires. She - and the software - are profiling you and she gives you advice based on your answers.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Karen is a life coach and she's happy to help you work through a few things in your life. You interact with Karen through an app. When you begin, she asks you some questions about your outlook on the world to get an understanding of you. In fact, her questions are drawn from psychological profiling questionnaires. She - and the software - are profiling you and she gives you advice based on your answers.</div>

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Big Mother Is Watching You: The Track-Everything Revolution Is Here Whether You Want It... - 0 views

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shared by Ian Forrester on 05 Jan 15 - No Cached

Ian Forrester on 05 Jan 15

"If you keep your fitness-related New Year's resolutions in 2015, it'll likely be thanks to the new wave of devices and apps that have taken monitoring things like newborn sleep patterns and blood oxygenation from geek hobby to mass-market juggernaut. But what happens when companies have access to the most mundane details about our bodies? "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"If you keep your fitness-related New Year's resolutions in 2015, it'll likely be thanks to the new wave of devices and apps that have taken monitoring things like newborn sleep patterns and blood oxygenation from geek hobby to mass-market juggernaut. But what happens when companies have access to the most mundane details about our bodies? "</div>

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Smart speaker recordings reviewed by humans - BBC News - 0 views

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"Amazon, Apple and Google all employ staff who listen to customer voice recordings from their smart speakers and voice assistant apps."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Amazon, Apple and Google all employ staff who listen to customer voice recordings from their smart speakers and voice assistant apps."</div>

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Vibrator Maker To Pay Millions Over Claims It Secretly Tracked Use : The Two-Way : NPR - 0 views

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Ian Forrester on 28 Jun 17

The makers of the We-Vibe, a line of vibrators that can be paired with an app for remote-controlled use, have reached a $3.75 million class action settlement with users following allegations that the company was collecting data on when and how the sex toy was used. Standard Innovations, the Canadian manufacturer of the We-Vibe, does not admit any wrongdoing in the settlement finalized Monday.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The makers of the We-Vibe, a line of vibrators that can be paired with an app for remote-controlled use, have reached a $3.75 million class action settlement with users following allegations that the company was collecting data on when and how the sex toy was used. Standard Innovations, the Canadian manufacturer of the We-Vibe, does not admit any wrongdoing in the settlement finalized Monday.</div>

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shared by Ian Forrester on 23 Jan 19 - No Cached

Ian Forrester on 23 Jan 19

"MorphCast is a new adaptive interactive format that engages audiences whilst protecting their privacy. MorphCast combines interactive video with emotional and demographic response to create a new type of adaptive video experience within the mobile device, powered by artificial intelligence and without the need for plug-ins, apps or the user's personal data. It runs on nearly every smartphone, tablet or PC through a URL."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"MorphCast is a new adaptive interactive format that engages audiences whilst protecting their privacy. MorphCast combines interactive video with emotional and demographic response to create a new type of adaptive video experience within the mobile device, powered by artificial intelligence and without the need for plug-ins, apps or the user's personal data. It runs on nearly every smartphone, tablet or PC through a URL."</div>

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"I Agree": Visualizing terms of service with long scrolls of colored paper / Boing Boing - 0 views

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shared by Ian Forrester on 07 May 18 - No Cached

Ian Forrester on 07 May 18

" "I Agree" is an art installation that prints the terms of service for common apps on scrolls of colored paper, creating a bar chart of the fine print that neither you, nor anyone else in the history of the world, has ever read. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">" "I Agree" is an art installation that prints the terms of service for common apps on scrolls of colored paper, creating a bar chart of the fine print that neither you, nor anyone else in the history of the world, has ever read. "</div>

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