Tag Archives: Privacy

Smartphone Spying.

Posted on June 15, 2015 by John

South Korea’s governmental ruling mandating the installation of an application (created by the government no-less) monitoring Smartphone usage of those 19 and under is not without (major) controversy… even Orwell could not have imagined this!

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Playing Defensive?

Posted on June 9, 2015 by John

Captain Cook’s (aka Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO) privacy-speech is laudable… although it omitted the simple fact that Cupertino collects mass amounts of data ranging from how consumer’s use their products to allowing third-parties to pitch their goods/services via the firm’s iAd product … Continue reading →

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Push-Pal?

Posted on June 3, 2015 by John

Party-foul PayPal for end-users having to agree to what sounds like essentially being bothered by direct-marketing solicitations via the firm’s upcoming end-user agreement (effective July 1st!)

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Expiring?

Posted on May 29, 2015 by John

With the deadline looming, the potential for clause in the ‘Patriot Act’ allowing Telecommunications firms to collect unlimited data on end-users is set to expire… the question is whether or not it will be temporary or permanent?

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Encryption-rules!

Posted on May 28, 2015 by John

According to the UN, Office of the High Commission for Human Rights, report, encryption is the key to free speech… which in the post-Snowden-era probably does not sync with the NSA’s perspective(s)…

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‘Bleep’ It!

Posted on May 12, 2015 by John

As privacy concerns continue to be at the fore of the mind’s of countless global citizens, Bit Torrent’s Bleep – a tracking-free, P2P, messaging application could both be a big hit as well as usher in other me-too offerings.

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YouDrone.

Posted on April 8, 2015 by John

Just in case anyone was unaware, the DJI Phantom 3 drone now features live-streaming (to YouTube) capabilities!? Orwell, could not write this…

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Purged!

Posted on April 7, 2015 by John

Google’s purge of 200 bad (i.e., ads / malware, etc.) Chrome-extensions raises at least one question – what took the firm so long to act?

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No Slack…

Posted on March 26, 2015 by John

Does Slack now find itself in the midst of a conflict-of-interest in and as far as the firm’s reported hacking amid raising an additional $160 million in VC?

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Where Next?

Posted on February 24, 2015 by John

In the light of the reported SIM-card hacking by the US and UK-governments, the old maxim rings true: truth is stranger than fiction…

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