Do You Need A Google Alarm?
There has been a lot of talk recently, even from Google themselves, about data. With the resources, myriad products and millions of visitors a day, Google is in a prime position to collect data on nearly all of us, and apparently they do even if you don’t use Google. This data really equates to cash, as they can either use it themselves or sell it on, and Google have even pitched the idea of an information sale platform. So, a technology entrepreneur, Jamie Wilkinson, has developed a browser plugin ‘Google... Read The Rest →
Mobile Apps Caught Stealing Data
It seems that while many people have been enjoying the benefits of mobile wireless internet, blithely surfing and downloading apps, there are some apps (both on the iPhone and Android) that have been collecting personal data without your knowledge. The problem was highlighted by Lookout Inc, a mobile phone security firm, and presented at the recent ‘Black Hat’ computer security conference in Vegas. They tested over 300,000 free apps for both iPhone and Android and found that many of them pull off sensitive data and transmit it to third parties... Read The Rest →
Google Street View Data Debacle
As you may know, a total of 38 American states (as of 23/07/10), as well as several European countries, aren’t particularly happy with Google at the moment. This is because whilst they were undertaking the noble task of photographing the streets of the world for ‘Street View’, they were also capturing lots of personal data. Obviously, some data needed to be recorded to locate the photos it was taking, but due to a tiny bit of code written in 2006 by an engineer for an experimental Wi-Fi project, Google had... Read The Rest →
