Zack Whittaker reports: At least one server used by an app for parents to monitor their teenagers’ phone activity has leaked tens of thousands of accounts of both parents and children. The mobile app, TeenSafe, bills itself as a “secure” monitoring app for iOS and Android, which lets parents view their child’s text messages and…
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Free Online Personal Data Removal Workbook
I sometimes think people don’t realize the amount of time and passion Joe Cadillic dedicates to informing you all of surveillance issues and online threats to our privacy. We’ll get back to that later in this post, but for now: This week, one of the links he sent me to share with you all is…
Watch out for Gmail’s new Confidential Mode (Opinion)
Mike Elgan writes: Most email can either be secure or easy to use. You can have one but not both. That’s why people are so excited about a new feature in Google’s Gmail. It’s called Confidential Mode, and it’s an easy way to make email more private. Confidential Mode lets you add an “expiration date”…
Covington IoT Update: U.S. Legislative Roundup on IoT
Katharine Goodloe writes: As policymakers weigh the many policy implications associated with the Internet of Things (“IoT”), U.S. lawmakers have put forward a variety of proposals for studying—and regulating—IoT devices. Although the likelihood of current proposals becoming law this term remain uncertain at best, existing legislative proposals provide important context and insight into the ways…