Marshall Kirkpatrick writes: Location based social network Foursquare has quietly released a new feature that allows places categorized as a person’s home to be included in the system but not expose their exact adress. Read more on ReadWriteWeb.
Category: Business
News Corp. Paying Phone Hack Victim’s Family $4.7 Million
Damon Poeter reports: News International will reportedly pay the family of a British murder victim about £3 million ($4.7 million) in a settlement to close a phone-hacking case that led to the closure of the News of the World tabloid and rocked Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation media empire to its core. The settlement includes a £2 million payment to…
Privacy Risk Found on Cellphone Games
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries reports: Major cellphone game networks have been handling the unique ID numbers on smartphones in insecure ways – in some cases even allowing access by a potential cybercriminal to a user’s Facebook and Twitter accounts – new research suggests. These unique identifiers – long strings of numbers and letters associated with the phone – don’t…
NFL wants pat-downs from ankles up at all stadiums
Michael McCarthy reports: The NFL wants all fans patted down from the ankles up this season to improve fan safety. Under the new “enhanced” pat-down procedures, the NFL wants all 32 clubs to search fans from the ankles to the knees as well as the waist up. Previously, security guards only patted down fans from…