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Tech wrap: Apple iOS apps to require “explicit” OK to share your contacts
Apple tweaked its policy on permission iOS apps need to access the contact information of users after legislators sought more information from the company regarding its privacy policies. “Apps that...
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Tech wrap: Google bypassed Safari privacy settings
Google landed in hot water over revelations that the search giant and ad companies had bypassed the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple’s Safari Web browser, using special computer code...
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Google’s unhealthy cookie habit
Google got its hand caught in the cookie jar last week — and this time it really does have some explaining to do. The search giant, which derives some 97 percent of its revenues from advertising,...
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Older and bigger, Facebook rethinks a youthful flirtation with user democracy
With about 900 million people, Facebook is larger than all but two countries in the world. But the nation of Facebook’s experiment with direct democracy may be coming to an end after only a few years....
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Facebook is having a vote on changes to its privacy policy. Not that you’d know it. Voter turnout has always been a problem for developed nations, but what about developed social networks? Facebook,...
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Intel’s facial-recognition freaks out potential customers
Mine and Yinka Adegoke’s story today on Intel’s proposal to use facial-recognition technology with a virtual TV service and set-top box has raised legitimate concerns about allowing Big Brother into...
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The Facebook Doctrine
Instagram, the mobile photo sharing app that Facebook bought for about $700 million, has been doing something new over the past few weeks. Up until now, one couldn’t see all of a user’s Instagrams...
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Facebook may yet learn that power does not ensure immortality
Facebook wasted no time acting with impunity by (once again) diluting member privacy protections this week. But it needn’t have hurried. Any semblance of democracy was washed away at noon Pacific Time...
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Instagram unleashes a thousand words
Instagram surely didn’t expect to stir up a hornet’s nest with changes to its terms of service announced two days ago. But it was met with an Internet flash mob: high-profile tech writers who had...
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Paying the piper for privacy
Three privacy stories caught my attention in the past week: 1. Google is paying a token $7 million fine for sniffing out private information as its roving Google Maps cars gathered images for Street...
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