Kelly Holleran reports: The children of a woman living in a Sugar Land nursing home claim they have been banned from the facility because of postings on social media. Mackey Glen Peterson, Don Leslie Peterson and Lonny Peterson filed a lawsuit July 29 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas Houston Division against…
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Your Anonymous Posts to Secret Aren’t Anonymous After All
Kevin Poulsen reports: White hat hacker Ben Caudill is halfway through his sandwich when he casually reaches over to his iPhone, swipes the screen a few times, then holds it up to me. “Is that you?” he asks. It is, but nobody was supposed to know. He’s showing me one of my posts to Secret,…
Apple suspends Secret downloads in Brazil under anonymity injunction
David Meyer reports: Apple has halted downloads of the anonymous messaging app Secret from its Brazilian App Store, following a preliminary injunction by a Vitória civil court earlier this week. According to local media reports, Secret is still in Apple‘s Brazilian App Store but cannot be downloaded. iOS users with non-Brazilian accounts can apparently still download the app, and there’s no…
AOL Says It Doesn’t Honor Do-Not-Track Requests
Allison Grande reports: AOL Inc. disclosed on Friday that it doesn’t respond to signals sent by major Web browsers that indicate that online users don’t want their activities to be tracked across websites, although it said it may be willing to reconsider its position if the industry can agree on a uniform do-not-track standard. As…