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If there weren’t enough landmines for publicly-traded social networks to step into. LinkedIn today is responding to a report by The Next Web that claims the company’s mobile app collects data from users’ calendars. Says The Next Web: “The information is gathered without explicit permission ... Full Article »
App privacy recently became a big focus for lawmakers and tech companies alike. A new story in the San Francisco Chronicle notes that while apps such as Path, Instagram and Twitter recently were noted for gathering and saving user data, apps aimed at children also can gather data without users knowi ... Full Article »
By now you’ve heard that you should be careful what you post on Facebook. But it might not be prying eyes on your profile that gets you into trouble because of the social network, but a security hole open to hackers. As PC World reports, there’s an easily exploitable security flaw in Facebook†... Full Article »
Mobile social network Path rolled out a fresh update Monday that brings new privacy controls to the app, allowing users to have tougher control over their information. The update comes in the wake of Path’s privacy fallout back in February, in which the app was the first of many to fall on the ba ... Full Article »
After a barrage of negative press and user complaints, the creepy Girls Around Me app this week was formally removed from the iTunes App Store. One still questions how it ever got there in the first place. Here's the background. Girls Around Me, an app that up until just recently displayed foursq ... Full Article »
The discussion of user privacy and smartphone apps continues to heat up as members of the U.S. Congress have written letters to Apple and 33 iOS developers, looking to find out how they gather information on users and what they do with it. According to a story from Ars Technica, Congressmen Henry A ... Full Article »
In another indication that Apple is taking privacy concerns - and government scrutiny - seriously, the company is beginning to reject apps that access UDIDs. While Apple first gave notice of its intention to developers more than six months ago, the company is acting more quickly than expected. Perh ... Full Article »
It’s been a month full of controversy for the app world, with outrage over privacy concerns and apps sharing user data catching the public attention, and eventually, that of lawmakers and lawyers. The result, however, is for the better for owners of Apple’s iOS-running mobile devices. As The Ne ... Full Article »
Smartphones and mobile applications entertain, inform and keep us connected in ways we could not even fathom just a few years ago. There is a trade-off, however, as many of these new conveniences require us to share personal information with cell phone companies or app developers. While many of us ... Full Article »
Apple has responded to criticism in the wake of another app store controversy by pledging to require that all apps on its iOS mobile platform ask for explicit user permission before accessing contacts lists stored on its iPhones and iPads. The move came in response to a controversy that kicked off ... Full Article »
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