Articles tagged “privacy”

Travel apps -- a bunch of which focus on accessing user's geolocation and photos besides other private information on mobile -- need to get their act together after this FTC fine and guidelines.

Uncharacteristically un-Disney-like response from Iger on the privacy concerns, the Congressman's letter was reasonable and was only raising questions in a routine way as any concerned lawmaker should. Strange; It just makes you more suspicious.

Rep Ed Markey is the author of Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and his questions on Disney's new pass aimed at children are valid ones, if only to understand if Disney has properly thought this through and has the protections in place.

The California AG was also considering suing United, but didn't, so looks like it complied and Delta didn't in time. At $2,500 per app violation, it could rack up a hefty fine on this one.

Internet ignorance is bliss. Public Wi-Fi use has jumped 240 percent in the past year, but privacy fears aren’t strong enough to stop users from sharing credit card numbers and work files on open servers.

Airlines and other travel-apps publishers should be particularly vigilant about formulating pro-consumer privacy policies for their apps, which track users' whereabouts 24/7.

Google's willingness to be forthcoming shouldn't be confused with transparency. There's no reason it would have spent the time necessary writing the programs to allow it to capture this data if it did not intend to do something with the data.

The genie is out of the bottle -- smartphones track your every movement for law enforcement and travel apps' developers purposes. The backlash is coming.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation correctly highlights how unchecked drone flights over the U.S. could pose a threat to civil liberties.