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What did we ever do without our smartphones? Not only do they provide instant access to everything- from restaurant reviews & directions to streaming music & videos- they also keep our contacts, calendar, and communication at our fingertips. Our phones are always on us and always on, making them literally an extension of us. However [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Consumers don’t mind sharing some of their personal information-as long as there’s something in it for them… A new report by PwC’s consumer intelligence series entitled “Consumer privacy: What are consumers willing to share?” delves deeper into the question of exactly that: will you share, and if so, what and how much? A survey of [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Congress introduced a new bill recently requiring mobile phone makers, network providers, and application developers to disclose any monitoring software installed on a mobile device. Representative Ed Markey introduced the bill as “The Mobile Device Privacy Act” and stated that “apps very commonly access our sensitive information- location, photos, web browsing, history, etc. Apps often [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →The FTC and Facebook settled its November 2011 case on Friday, alleging Facebook violated its privacy policy by allowing users’ private information to be shared and made public. The commission voted to impose a 20-year consent order requiring Facebook to protect its users’ privacy and give “clear and prominent” notice and obtain express consent before revealing [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →First of all, what is crowdsourcing? According to Wikipedia- crowdsourcing is related to, but not the same as, human-based computation, which refers to the ways in which humans and computers can work together to solve problems. These two methods can be used together to accomplish tasks. Wikipedi is in fact one of the largest examples of [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →This is a true mobile age. Cellphones have become an indispensable tool. As spammers realize the every-present nature of the mobile phone, they have resorted to using it to their advantage. Spammers can reach users at a near instant capability and pummel them with their message to get some kind of response. While often just [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →By unspoken consensus, the price of free content on the web has become user information. Advertisers store information about users who clicked on ads and track whether they made a purchase, and if not, whether they eventually returned to do so. An entire branch of marketing has sprung up around lead nurturing techniques and improving [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Sometimes in the world of mobile phone privacy, a dark cloud truly can have a silver lining. Such is the case with the recent blowup over the social media iOS app Path, which was caught taking users’ address books without permission or even notification and uploading them to their own servers. In a surprisingly honest [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Smartphones could easily have a bigger impact on the youngest generation than on any of their parents. Already, countless games, puzzles and other apps for Android and iOS devices are directed specifically at children, but the information these apps collect is raising new concerns about internet privacy and its impact on today’s youth. According to [...]
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