Shazam, the song-identifying app whose logo keeps making its way onto TVs for second-screen expansion, has expanded its smart-listening deeper into your life with a new automatic tagging feature that basically turns your iPhone or iPad into a personal little wiretap.
Taking our suggestion from this morning -- at least we would like to think Apple reads our site -- Apple has changed its policy on granting apps access to iPhone user contacts.
Apple can make this whole iPhone address book fiasco all better with a simple fix.
Third try will do it for Path, which has added a formal apology to the Twitter and comment thread explanations it's given for its iPhone scandal. Hopefully the company can appease its critics.
We'd like to congratulate smartphone only, micro-social network Path on its first mini-scandal, as it signals a sort of ascent to relevance in the social networking world.
Following a series of questions and criticisms, "a group of European Union data-protection regulators" is asking Google not to move forward with its new unified privacy policy, according to Bloomberg Businessweek's Aoife White.
While Europe moves ahead with its right to be forgotten, as seasoned Internet stalkers, we've gone through and ranked the best and easiest places anyone can find your personal data on the Internet.
It's easy to get upset about Google's newly announced changes to its privacy policy, because as many have now pointed out, despite Google's mission to not be "evil," the changes have some pretty evil implications.
As tech bloggers gawked at Apple's record high earnings report, Google quietly announced that some changes to its privacy policy would kick into effect on March 1 and users will not be able to opt out.
Starting this week, Facebook is "thoughtfully and slowly" rolling out its latest ad product: a predictably personalized thing called featured stories that will appear in users' News Feeds.
People call Anonymous a lot of bad words, but hypocritical is seldom one of them. The hacktivist collective's latest Germany-centric crusade against the bigotry and hatred of neo-Nazis is drawing ire from all sides.
We hate to be the bearers of obvious news, but Facebook is making money off of your profile. Yes, even the new and improved and so far sort of confusing Timeline edition.
Facebook announced a lengthy list of privacy-related tweaks to its site on Wednesday, following a sweeping and often less-than-flattering report from European Internet watchdogs.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation put out an open call for developers to help them figure out how the controversial, smartphone-spying Carrier IQ software actually works.
We don't mean to scare you, but the ACLU certainly does with 13-pages of startling details (PDF) about how the threat of "routine aerial surveillance of American life" is real.
Just two weeks, practically nobody knew what Carrier IQ was, but thanks to a viral YouTube video showing evidence that the company's software was logging keystrokes on smartphones, a growing list of federal agencies are opening investigations.
Carrier IQ, the controversial software company suspected of spying on over 150 million smartphone users, is opening its kimono and admitting to some mistakes.
While everybody is busy flipping out about the Carrier IQ smartphone spying controversy, more and more data security experts are raising their hands with a calming comment: It's not necessarily a good thing, but it's not that bad.
It only took a scolding letter from a Senator, a class action lawsuit and a few thousand news stories, but smartphone software makers Carrier IQ finally responded to allegations of logging keystrokes and spying on users on Thursday night.
An Apple hacker has discovered that Carrier IQ, the shady smartphone software recently found to be logging keystrokes on Android, BlackBerry and Nokia devices, is also installed on the iPhone. Don't worry, fanboys. It's off by default -- probably.
An Android developer recently discovered a clandestine application called Carrier IQ built into most smartphones that doesn't just track your location; it secretly records your keystrokes, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Anticipating the inevitable blowback to the Federal Trade Commission's official press release that Facebook "Deceived Consumers By Failing To Keep Privacy Promises," Mark Zuckerberg wrote a blog post.
When a federal judge ruled that Twitter must reveal the private data of three WikiLeaks associates on Thursday, privacy advocates died a little inside.
Facebook has a bad privacy track record and people care--just not that much.
The New York Federal Reserve Bank is the latest organization to keep an eye on your tweets
Everytime it pushes boundaries, governments just shove right back
Congress is calling for an FTC investigation into Facebook's tracking practices
There are some scary privacy concerns about the Kindle Fire's browser
The document details which companies keep your information the longest
The Federal Trade Commission has proposed changes
The National Union of Journalists is going to hate this
There are a lot of new options, we're here to help you through
Official sites in Scheswig-Holstein must also delete their Facebook Pages and Like buttons
Aggressive new software is tracking your every move online. Here's how to stop it
It's difficult to address one privacy concern without compromising another
As more and more employers consult Facebook, more and more people think it's shady
The government isn't sure if it's tracking Americans' every move
Has the social network made a mistake by deleting pseudonymous profiles en masse?
With its first acquisition, Fridge, the social network shows it means business
The Facebook founder will be eating his irony pie for at least a week now
A rewritten operations manual relaxes restrictions on investigation tools
The feature has been live in the U.S. for six months with little outrage
Examining what the Google executive said at the D9 conference
Media outlets took previous comments "out of context," says Facebook founder
Now equipped with "diplomats" the social network is getting serious about politics
Answer all the Senator's questions with "We just want to innovate"
If the technology is too creepy for Google, why did they apply for a patent?
Silicon Valley doesn't like a state bill requiring clearer explanation of privacy settings
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