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Following Path and Twitter, some other big names in mobile applications are coming under fire for scanning and possibly storing address book information from a user’s phone. Those names, as The Daily reports, includes Facebook, Instagram and Angry Birds. [The Daily]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzhpzmBCr01qz5ew6o1_1280.jpg)
Following Path and Twitter, some other big names in mobile applications are coming under fire for scanning and possibly storing address book information from a user’s phone. Those names, as The Daily reports, includes Facebook, Instagram and Angry Birds. [The Daily]
“Among the most deliberate and abhorrent mass violations of privacy committed in recent memory did not come as a result of technology, social services, databases, hackers, thieves, leakers, or governments. It was an act of a news organization, News Corp., which hacked into the phones of a reported 4,000 people, including not just celebrities but dead children and the families of the victims of terrorism and war.”
![Does Your Favorite Social Network Have Your Back on Privacy?
[E]specially if you are a user of Apple, Comcast, MySpace, Skype and Verizon.
Those are the five companies most likely to throw you under the bus altogether, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
The digital liberties advocacy group has released a privacy report and petition to rally users around the issue of privacy.
Measuring how tech companies respond to government requests for data…
The EFF’s chart, above, awards full stars for companies who are doing a “stellar job,” and half stars for companies who are “moving in the right direction.”
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Does Your Favorite Social Network Have Your Back on Privacy?
[E]specially if you are a user of Apple, Comcast, MySpace, Skype and Verizon.
Those are the five companies most likely to throw you under the bus altogether, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
The digital liberties advocacy group has released a privacy report and petition to rally users around the issue of privacy.
Measuring how tech companies respond to government requests for data…
The EFF’s chart, above, awards full stars for companies who are doing a “stellar job,” and half stars for companies who are “moving in the right direction.”
“[NBC’s Savannah] Guthrie asked if there was a “right to privacy” in the Constitution, to which Trump responded, “I guess there is, I guess there is. And why, just out of curiosity, why do you ask this question?” Apparently he failed to pick up on Guthrie’s reference to the legal principle that was key in the decision to legalize abortion in Roe v. Wade, and her pointed way of asking where he stood on the matter. “Well, that’s a pretty strange way of getting to pro-life,” Donald mused before adding, “What does that have to do with privacy?”
Classic Stewart: Jon Rips Bill O’Reilly Over Hypocrisy On Privacy - 2/09
