Trustwave would probably prefer us all to be discussing their new data breach analysis report they issued this week. Instead, they are getting a lot of negative press over a man-in-the-middle certificate they issued that allowed a firm to snoop on its employees’ e-mail. John Leyden of The Register explains: Certificate Authority Trustwave has revoked a…
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FTC sued over planned Google privacy changes
Cecilia Kang reports: A privacy advocacy group on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission that targets Google for allegedly breaching privacy rules. The Electronic Privacy and Information Center said in its complaint that Google’s planned privacy policy changes violate a settlement the company reached with the FTC last summer. That agreement…
Good call: Path apologizes, erases all lifted address book data from servers
Colleen Taylor reports: Path, the mobile app for cataloging your daily activities and sharing them with a relatively small circle of contacts, came under serious fire on Tuesday when it was discovered that Path’s iPhone app imports all of its users’ address book data onto Path’s own servers without notifying users. Not surprisingly, many people saw this as a…
Path caught storing users’ unencrypted data
Heather Taylor writes: Today developer Arun Thampi discovered his entire address book including full names, emails and phone numbers was being collected by the new social app, Path. In trying to make things easy for users, Path uploads your address book to their servers so you can easily connect to your friends and family on…