Declan McCullagh reports: Nicholas Merrill is planning to revolutionize online privacy with a concept as simple as it is ingenious: a telecommunications provider designed from its inception to shield its customers from surveillance. Merrill, 39, who previously ran a New York-based Internet provider, told CNET that he’s raising funds to launch a national “non-profit telecommunications…
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Privacy concerns after Instagram’s acquisition by Facebook
Graham Cluley writes: It’s the big tech headline of the week: Facebook has announced it is buying the popular photo-sharing app Instagram for a cool billion dollars. But should Instagram’s 30 million users – who are reportedly uploading five million new photos to the service each day – have worries about the acquisition? Read more…
Watching ‘Martha’: 50,000 affected by security camera privacy breach
Andrew Ramadge reports: Thousands of people all over the world could be watching Martha* get ready for bed right now. But Martha isn’t an entertainer. She’s an elderly woman, and she almost certainly doesn’t know that the inside of her home is being broadcast on the web. Martha – or more likely, one of her…
Class Action Suit Filed Against Path Claims More Data Was Collected Besides Address Books
George Jenkins writes: A second class-action lawsuit was filed against Path Inc. claiming the company’s mobile app collected more infromation than just users’ address books. The suit also calimed that users of the Path app were: “… victims of unfair, deceptive, and unlawful business practices; wherein their property, privacy, and security rights were violated…” The additional data…