Tag Archives: privacy

Uber is in hot water for waiting a whole year to announce a data breach of information on 57 million users, and not just with angry riders and drivers. The company is now under a microscope with regulators, who want to enforce rules that required the company to come clean sooner.  The New York State …

Google has been collecting Android phones’ locations even when location services are turned off, an investigation has revealed. Online publication Quartz observed Android phones collecting the addresses of nearby mobile phone masts and sending them back to Google. The details were collected even when location services were turned off on the phones, no apps had been installed and there was …

The Federal Communications Commission is planning a full repeal of Obama-era net neutrality rules, handing the broadband and wireless industries a big victory in the war against government oversight of the internet. On Tuesday, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai issued his proposal for dismantling the 2015 net neutrality regulations, which ensure all traffic on the internet is treated equally, and prevent …

Chances are, you’ve probably never heard of OnePlus. But ask an Android aficionado and you’ll likely get a smile. That’s because OnePlus has spent the last three years creating a company almost exclusively catering to savvy and hardcore Android users. It’s done so by packing premium features and specifications into smartphones that are significantly cheaper than traditional flagship offerings from the likes …

Brave Software on Thursday released a new version of its browser that lets you donate money directly to YouTube stars. The free browser blocks ads by default but lets you distribute money anonymously to websites each month, giving more money to the websites you visit more often and letting you “pin” favorites you always want to fund. Now Brave lets …

Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox Quantum, and even if you long ago switched to Google Chrome, it’s worth giving the browser upgrade a spin. Why? First and foremost, version 57 of the open-source browser is faster, clocking in at twice the speed of Firefox 52 from March, according to the Speedometer 2.0 benchmark. Mozilla knows Chrome won many of us …

Sure, Siri sounds a bit less like a robot in iOS 11, but Apple‘s digital assistant still fails to understand me and mispronounces names. Siri is also more useful if she (my Siri has a British female voice, so I’ll refer to Siri as a “she” here) knows my daily haunts and connects with any supported apps.  Learn four easy …

Some iPhone users are feeling exposed by a feature in their phones’ Photos app.  When they type in the word “brassiere” in the photo search function, iPhone users find pictures their phone thinks include bras. As it happens, those photos tend to be a little intimate. Word began spreading on Twitter on Monday about this feature, and iPhone users began …

Apple is under the gun to get its flagship iPhone X out the door.  The company wanted so badly to produce more iPhone X units that it told manufacturers to lower the accuracy of its facial recognition system, which it calls Face ID, to speed up production, according to Bloomberg, which cited anonymous sources. The story highlights the challenges Apple …

Editors’ note: This was originally published on May 25, 2016, and has since been updated to reflect changes to the Paribus service.  I do a considerable amount of shopping online, so when a service comes along promising to help me save money, I pay attention. Paribus is one such service; it monitors your purchases at nearly 30 stores, watches for …