Russell Brandom reports: This morning, The Washington Post called out an unexpected privacy concern in Apple’s new Yosemite operating system. Apple’s Spotlight application, previously used to index material on a user’s hard drive, has added a new Suggestions feature that points to external sites relevant to a given search term. As the Post article points out, that means search…
Category: Breaches
Upskirting, Downblousing, and the Continued Public Harassment of Women
Dr. Laura Finley writes: As if enduring the routine cat calls and doing whatever we must to “protect ourselves” against the possibility of being sexually assaulted isn’t enough, now women must also take care that no one surreptitiously takes a photo of our nether regions. It would seem that if there is any such thing…
The Hidden Privacy Threat of … Flashlight Apps?
Robert McMillan reports: When I downloaded the Flashlight app to my iPhone, I was in a jam. I was camping, I think. Or maybe a pen had rolled under my couch. I remember that smug sense of self-congratulation after I downloaded the software, which converted the iPhone’s LED flash into a steady and bright beam…
UK: Privacy payout for Cheryl’s husband
Shropshire Star reports: Businessman Jean Bernard Fernandez-Versini, who married the 31-year-old singer better known as Cheryl Cole in July, brought proceedings for invasion of privacy and breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 at London’s High Court against National Magazine Company Ltd, publisher of Reveal magazine. His solicitor, Callum Galbraith, told Judge Richard Parkes that…