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. "
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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."
Everything We Know About Facebook's Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment - The Atlantic - 0 views
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"Facebook's News Feed-the main list of status updates, messages, and photos you see when you open Facebook on your computer or phone-is not a perfect mirror of the world. But few users expect that Facebook would change their News Feed in order to manipulate their emotional state."
BBC News - What price for free wi-fi? - 0 views
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"Smartphone users are always looking for free wi-fi but at what price does it come? Businesses are looking at ways to make the free wi-fi they offer work for them too. It can track our movements through our phones and reveal a great deal about us to those who have something to sell. "
This is Why People Fear the 'Internet of Things' - Krebs on Security - 0 views
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"Imagine buying an internet-enabled surveillance camera, network attached storage device, or home automation gizmo, only to find that it secretly and constantly phones home to a vast peer-to-peer (P2P) network run by the Chinese manufacturer of the hardware. Now imagine that the geek gear you bought doesn't actually let you block this P2P communication without some serious networking expertise or hardware surgery that few users would attempt."
Google Home and Chromecast outage hits millions of users worldwide - 0 views
Vibrator Maker To Pay Millions Over Claims It Secretly Tracked Use : The Two-Way : NPR - 0 views
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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.
Metadata From IoT Traffic Exposes In-Home User Activity - 0 views
Google admits it tracked user location data even when the setting was turned off - The ... - 0 views
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"Android phones gather your location data and send it to Google, even if you've turned off location services and don't have a SIM card"
MU News Bureau | If Facebook Use Causes Envy, Depression Could follow - 0 views
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Users should be aware of why people use Facebook to avoid feelings of envy
Bose headphones have been spying on customers, lawsuit claims - The Washington Post - 0 views
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At least that's the claim of a proposed class-action lawsuit filed late Tuesday in Illinois that accuses the high-end audio equipment maker of spying on its users and selling information about their listening habits without permission.
Web Monetization - 0 views
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A JavaScript browser API that allows the creation of a payment stream from the user agent to the website
Croquet - Collaboration Library and Framework - 0 views
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"Croquet eliminates dedicated servers and server-side code from online multiuser apps. Instead, users connect through our worldwide network of public reflectors. Every input is mirrored by the reflector to a shared virtual computer that runs bit-identical across every client, so everyone stays perfectly in sync"
openPDS/SafeAnswers - The privacy-preserving Personal Data Store - 1 views
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openPDS/SafeAnswers allows users to collect, store, and give fine-grained access to their data all while protecting their privacy.
Disclose what you collect | analytics.txt - 0 views
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"A proposed standard which allows websites and services to disclose information about their usage of analytics software and user tracking. "
Pardon Snowden on Periscope: "#AskSnowden Q&A hosted by @Jack" - 0 views
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey interviewed Edward Snowden today, and the big topic was technology.
Dangerous Terms: A User's Guide to EULAs | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 0 views
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We've all seen them - windows that pop up before you install a new piece of software, full of legalese. To complete the install, you have to scroll through 60 screens of dense text and then click an "I Agree" button. Sometimes you don't even have to scroll through to click the button. Other times, there is no button because merely opening your new gadget means that you've "agreed" to the chunk of legalese.
Runkeeper is secretly tracking you around the clock and sending your data to advertiser... - 0 views
Surveillance-based manipulation: How Facebook or Google could tilt elections | Ars Tech... - 0 views
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Someone who knows things about us has some measure of control over us, and someone who knows everything about us has a lot of control over us. Surveillance facilitates control.
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