Private Reading: Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Best Books of 2013
At the end of each year, EFF puts together a list of some of the interesting and noteworthy books that have been published in the past 12 months or so. We don’t endorse all of their arguments, but we find they’ve added some valuable insight to the conversation around the areas and issues on which…
Google Removes New Android Privacy Feature, Says It Was an Accident
Yesterday, we published a blog post lauding an extremely important app privacy feature that was added in Android 4.3. That feature allows users to install apps while preventing the app from collecting sensitive data like the user’s location or address book. https://gizmodo.com/the-awesome-privacy-tools-in-android-4-3-1481775527 After we published the post, several people contacted us to say that the…
The Awesome Privacy Tools in Android 4.3+
To date, there has been no way to run apps on Android with real and reliable privacy controls. Android version 4.3 and higher take a huge step in the right direction, letting users install apps while denying some of the apps’ attempts to collect the user’s data. Android was built from scratch to have quite…
