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EFF publishes Mobile User Privacy Bill of Rights
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has joined the debate over apps and privacy, publishing a ‘Mobile User Privacy Bill of Rights’ which draws on its existing publication for social networks to put...
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Apple and social giants face app privacy lawsuit
The smartphone privacy row rumbles on, with a new class-action lawsuit filed in Texas over the recent controversy around iPhone users’ address books being uploaded to app publishers’ servers without...
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Foursquare cuts off controversial Girls Around Me app
The apps world moves fast these days. On Friday afternoon in the US, a controversy erupted around social app Girls Around Me. Why? It scanned Foursquare check-ins from women with publicly-available...
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Is being social as much about privacy as openness?
Today’s essential read is a blog post by Kyro Beshay titled ‘Being Social Is About Being Private’. It’s about messaging services like BBM and iMessage – but the final paragraph is very relevant to...
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Windows Phone Store rolls out to 42 more countries
Microsoft has confirmed the imminent launch of its Windows Phone Store in 42 more countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and a host of countries across Africa. That takes the company’s...
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Children’s apps privacy debate continues to rumble
2013 is set to be an exciting year for children’s apps, building on the groundwork laid over the last three years. Yet there will also be increased scrutiny of the sector over the way it handles in-app...
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FTC urges developers to be transparent about data, fines Path
The US Federal Trade Commission is urging mobile platforms and app developers to be more transparent about the information they collect from users, in a report published days after Path had its wrist...
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Is Facebook developing a location-tracking app?
Facebook is reportedly developing a location-tracking app that will help users to find their nearby friends – and let Facebook sell ads based on their comings and goings. Bloomberg reports that the app...
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Path makes money from 3.0, but is privacy the victim?
Social network Path launched version 3.0 of its iOS app last week but how it went depends very much on who you read and what you value: Wired slammed 3.0 as a “privacy disaster”, while TechCrunch...
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Facebook reportedly cuts off Path’s ‘Find Friends’ feature
Social app Path has seen its Find Friends feature for Facebook nobbled by the social network, meaning its users can’t now check to see which Facebook friends are also using the app. TechCrunch reported...
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