Back in March 2010, this blog started including occasional news stories on Spokeo.com, a site that aggregates personal information from publicly available sources and makes it available to anyone and everyone online. How much information you can obtain on someone depends whether you use their free service or their “premium” service. As the site itself…
Category: Business
BlackBerry denies India email access deal as struggle continues
Earlier today, I referenced a TechEYE.net story from December 21 and indicated that Research in Motion had caved in to India’s demands to provide an encryption key to Blackberry email services. I’ve corrected that post in light of additional information. A story in today’s Economic Times of India resulted in a strong response from Research…
Class Claims Apple Apps Spy on Users
Bridget Freeland reports: Despite its claims of “strong privacy protections,” Apple approved applications for iPhones and iPads that intercept personal information and track users’ habits without authorization, according to a federal class action. The class claims that apps such as Dictionary.com, Pandora, the Weather Channel and Backflip – creator of the “Paper Toss app” –…
Apple Hit With Two Federal Lawsuits Over Tracking iPhone and iPad Users. Is Google’s Android Next?
Kashmir Hill writes: It’s always sad when two people give you the same present for Christmas, especially if it’s not a present you want. That’s the situation Apple is in this holiday season, served with two lawsuits in federal court last week, both seeking class action status, for helping advertisers create profiles of iPhone and…