The Hyped New Social App That Collects All Your Data Without Limits
A new iPhone app called Highlight is poised to be this year’s breakout hit at South by Southwest, the Austin tech and media conference that has become known as a web service kingmaker after launching services like Twitter and Foursquare to a wide audience in years past. In the context of a major tech conference,…
A Mobile User Privacy Bill of Rights
Mobile smartphone apps represent a powerful technology that will only become more important in the years to come. But the unique advantages of the smartphone as a platform-a device that’s always on and connected, with access to real world information like user location or camera and microphone input-also raise privacy challenges. And given the sensitivity…
New Mozilla Browser Add-On Visualizes Who Is Tracking You Online
In the hour that Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs lets his 9-year-old daughter surf the web every day, her wanderings have been tracked by dozens of sites. To some degree, it’s to be expected. Tracking our online behavior is big business. The revenues involved in the top online tracking companies in the space is over $39…
How To Remove Your YouTube Viewing and Search History Before Google’s New Privacy Policy Takes Effect
On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Earlier this week, we showed you how to delete your Google Web History in order to prevent Google from combining…
Read Reddit’s Crowdsourced “Free Internet Act,” Which Would Make It Hugely Difficult To Monitor The Web
After playing a major role in defeating SOPA legislation, Reddit users decided to craft their own “Free Internet Act,” which, they hoped, could be used as a far more liberal replacement bill. Idealistic as this sounds, a crowdsourced document for how to govern the Internet is an intriguing idea that, one would think, might help…