April Glaser and Alison Macrina report: Adobe has made it extremely easy for unwanted eyes to read over the shoulders of library patrons. Earlier this month reports surfaced about how Adobe’s Digital Editions e-book software collects and transmits information about readers in plain text.* That insecure transmission allows the government, corporations, or potential hackers to intercept information…
Category: Breaches
Does Yosemite have a privacy problem? Not exactly
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…
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…