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…
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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…
From tracking al-Qaeda to tracking the wayward spouse
Shaun Dakin just pointed me to this op-ed by Dana Milbank: You can find just about anything at the annual homeland security expo: X-ray machines, infrared cameras, a police cruiser with heat-sensing capability, a hovering “gyroplane” — and a GPS device that can spy on your spouse. The salesman for Blackline GPS Corp., maker of “professional grade…