More on the accusations concerning IKEA, mentioned previously on this blog: A French security company tied to a legal complaint alleging that Swedish furniture giant Ikea illegally spied on staff and customers denied involvement on Saturday, blaming a renegade former employee. Prosecutors in Versailles near Paris on Thursday opened an investigation into the affair following…
Category: Breaches
Schumer calls for probe of personal info stolen over Internet
Oh, goody. Another investigation. My senator issued the following press release: “United States Senator Charles E. Schumer today called for the Federal Trade Commission to launch an investigation into reports that smartphone applications sold on the Apple and Android platforms are allowed to steal private photos and customers address books. “This past week, the New…
Et Tu, Google? Android Apps Can Also Secretly Copy Photos
Brian X. Chen and Nick Bilton report: It’s not just Apple. Photos are vulnerable on Android phones, too. As Bits reported this week, developers who make applications for Apple iOS devices have access to a person’s entire photo library as long as that person allows the app to use location data. It turns out that Google,…
Dating websites sued for using dead soldier’s photo in ads
Associated Press reports: The picture of a handsome, uniformed soldier accompanying online ads that proclaim “Military Man Searching for Love” is an Army lieutenant who was killed in Iraq in 2007, according to a lawsuit filed by his parents on Monday against two dating websites. The parents of US Army Lieutenant Peter Burks have sued…