A reader kindly sent along this link to a post by Michael Geist: The Royal Bank of Canada updated its mobile application for Android users earlier this month. Like many banking apps, the RBC version allows users to view account balances, pay bills, and find bank branches from their smartphone. Yet when users tried to install the…
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Yahoo to encrypt webmail sessions by default starting in January
From the it’s-about-time dept.: Lucian Constantin reports that in early 2014, Yahoo will start encrypting webmail sessions by default.
Snapchat passed ‘about a dozen’ unopened messages onto US law enforcement agencies
Jordan O’Brien reports: Think those cheeky Snapchats are completely safe? Maybe not according to a new blog post from the company. According to Micah Schaffer, the person in charge of trust and safety issues at Snapchat, law enforcement agencies can gain access to some Snapchats with a suitable warrant — just like any other service. Unlike…
Some Dutch phone firms break law on internet traffic info storage
From Expatica: A quarter of Dutch telecoms firms are using phone and email details they are required to store by law for marketing purposes, Nos television reports on Monday. Nor are some of them destroying the information a year after it was collected, as they are supposed to do, Nos said. The facts are contained…