Carrier IQ Responds More To Privacy Allegations, But Many Questions Remain
As more detail unfolds of companies swearing off any involvement with Carrier IQ (and some admitting using it for diagnostics) amid allegati… Read more »
As more detail unfolds of companies swearing off any involvement with Carrier IQ (and some admitting using it for diagnostics) amid allegati… Read more »
Several days into the Carrier IQ story — which raised privacy concerns around software that claims to be an innocent diagnostics tool — an… Read more »
The Federal Trade Commission today released a much-anticipated settlement with Facebook over a series of privacy breaches. The deal has some… Read more »
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Another step in Twitter’s mobile acquisition trail: the microblogging and messaging service has acquired Whisper Systems, a enterprise mobil… Read more »
Internet advertisers this month took a fresh stab at persuading federal privacy regulators to leave them alone. The advertisers are touting… Read more »
Internet users who want to remain anonymous online have been pushing back against media companies’ efforts to strip them of their pseudonyms… Read more »
The former First Minister of Wales says he and his politician wife have been interviewed by the Metropolitan Police because her phone was ha… Read more »
Popular video site Metacafe has joined Quantcast, Interclick and a host of other firms in settling a lawsuit over its use of Flash “super-co… Read more »
A California man claimed that LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) “humiliated” him by sharing his Internet browsing history with marketers. In a big win f… Read more »
Irony alert: The Federal Trade Commission may have just saddled Facebook with 20 years of privacy audits, but that’s not stopping it from ta… Read more »
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Facebook is widely reported to be on the verge of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission that will force it to tighten up its privac… Read more »
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It’s like being followed by the weatherman. A new class action suit against HTC makes some unsettling allegations about how the phone maker… Read more »
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
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The messy liquidation of Borders has taken a new twist. Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) indicated in a court filing late yesterday that it would… Read more »
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The relationship of consumers to online advertising is often hung up on the issue of privacy. Targeting is the name of the game, whether its… Read more »
Today marks the launch of EchoEcho, yet another app that lets smartphone users keep track of each other. The twist here is that the Google-b… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» A victory for civil liberties companies, and a possible shadow for some mobi… Read more »
Today is the day that online advertisers formally implement a code of conduct. The industry hopes it will persuade Congress to leave them al… Read more »
A sign of Twitter’s growing power, and increasing need to interface with government to get its message across: the company has hired a new h… Read more »
comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) is one of the biggest analytics companies out there, and its statistics about internet usage are quoted constantly in… Read more »
Facebook has been sizing up the mobile world with hungry eyes for a while now — more than one-third of the social network’s 750-million-plu… Read more »
Facebook has announced a re-vamping of its privacy settings today, with the intent of making clear to users just how much sharing they’re do… Read more »
Google’s Street View cars will finally begin cruising the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, but it’s the most heavily-regulated launch yet… Read more »
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