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Adverts in Android Apps Expose Users To Privacy & Security Loopholes


After it was revealed that ads in free apps are the major reason for draining your smartphone battery, a new report is giving users another reason to resort to paid apps instead of free apps with advertising. A team of researchers at North Carolina State University have found that many of ...
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Twitter Latest Company To Admit Uploading Smartphone Address Books Without Permission


If anyone believed that the saga involving companies uploading and saving contact data on their servers unsolicited was over when Path apologised, it appears that it was only the beginning of a much wider practice which Path CEO Dave Morin alluded to. Twitter have become the latest company to admit ...
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Path Uploading Your Private Data – Who The Hell Isn’t?


The biggest story of the last couple of days has been the news that social app Path has been “spying” on you by uploading your address book to their servers. It’s fair to say that all sorts of blogs have been getting in a bit of a tizzy about it ...
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Have Facebook Avoided Privacy Backlash Or Is There More To Come?


When Facebook first announced Timeline and frictionless sharing back on 22nd of September they were pretty much regarded as the biggest updates to the way the site worked since the news feed itself was introduced. Profiles were being changed dramatically and instead of people choosing to share what they were ...
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