Earlier this week, I was disgusted to find a promotional e-mail from SMS Privato Spy in my inbox. The company sells a service by which it sends a spoofed SMS message to a target phone that then allows the subscriber to monitor the phone’s activity – all of it. The company attempts to cover their…
Category: Business
Lawyers on IMDb suit: ‘It’s going to be an uphill fight’
Lanford Beard interviewed some lawyers on the lawsuit against IMDB and Amazon mentioned previously on this blog. Neither of the lawyers interviewed for the piece seemed to be optimistic about the actress’s chances of prevailing. You can read their reactions on Entertainment Weekly. Maybe this case will settle. I think IMDB’s privacy policy is not…
Sean Parker: Threat to Facebook Is ‘Power Users’ Heading to Google+
Barbara E. Hernandez reports: Sean Parker said that Facebook’s biggest threat is its heaviest users leaving the social network to Google+ or Twitter because of lack of controls — not privacy, but information. “I don’t think privacy is an issue. That may be controversial but I don’t think that’s Facebook’s biggest problem. I think Facebook’s biggest problem is the…
EFF Gets Straight Privacy Answers From Amazon About New “Silk” Tablet Browser
Dan Auerbach writes: Amazon recently announced that the new Kindle Fire tablet will ship with a brand new browser called Silk. The Silk browser works in “cloud acceleration” mode by routing most webpage requests through servers controlled by Amazon. The idea is to capitalize on Amazon’s powerful AWS cloud servers to parallelize and hence speed up downloading web page elements, and then pass…