Rather than you watching television, it is they who are watching you! Verizon has recently patented a cable DVR box that will use audio and video to record and analyze what’s going on in your living room so that they can provide targeted ads in real time on the TV to suit what’s going on. Now, one reason may…
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Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claiming Its Release Was Accidental
Well, that didn’t last long. Peter Eckersley writes: Yesterday, we published a blog post lauding an extremely important app privacy feature that was added in Android 4.3. That feature allows users to install apps while preventing the app from collecting sensitive data like the user’s location or address book. After we published the post, several people contacted us…
Awesome Privacy Tools in Android 4.3+
Peter Eckersley writes: To date, there has been no way to run apps on Android with real and reliable privacy controls. Android version 4.3 and higher take a huge step in the right direction, letting users install apps while denying some of the apps’ attempts to collect the user’s data. Read more on EFF.
Privacy groups ask FCC to rule that carriers cannot share phone records
John Ribeiro reports: Privacy groups have asked the Federal Communications Commission to declare that even “anonymized” phone records have to be protected under a privacy rule that restricts carriers from sharing customers’ information without their consent. The petition filed before the FCC comes in the wake of reports that U.S. carriers like Verizon and AT&T…