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Tag: security or lack thereof

Huawei’s new foldable ‘Mate X’ smartphone starts at $2,600

Monday, February 25, 2019 8:56 amMonday, February 25, 201924 Comments

Chinese smartphone company Huawei on Sunday unveiled its first foldable smartphone…

Concept design envisions what a foldable iPhone would look like

Saturday, February 23, 2019 11:17 am26 Comments

Samsung introduced its first smartphone with a flexible display on Wednesday and seemed to pitch…

One of the main problems with Samsung’s Galaxy Fold is that it doesn’t really fold

Friday, February 22, 2019 11:30 amFriday, February 22, 201930 Comments

Samsung went to painstaking lengths to avoid talking about the fact that their Galaxy Fold doesn’t really fold…

Most analysts expect Apple to wait until 2020 to offer a foldable iPhone

Thursday, February 21, 2019 9:27 amThursday, February 21, 201916 Comments

Expect Apple to wait say for one year and come up with foldable phones with more features, as they did with the smartwatch…

Samsung announces foldable 4.6- to 7.3-inch ‘Galaxy Fold’ phone with giant off-center notch, starts at $1,980

Wednesday, February 20, 2019 3:57 pmWednesday, February 20, 201931 Comments

At its Unpacked 2019 event that took place in San Francisco today, Samsung officially announced…

Mark Zuckerberg loses $16 billion in record Facebook fall

Thursday, July 26, 2018 3:01 pmThursday, July 26, 201825 Comments

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune took an almost $16 billion hit on Thursday…

Facebook stock plunges as users vanish

Wednesday, July 25, 2018 6:52 pm21 Comments

Facebook Inc’s stock fell as much as 24 percent after hours on Wednesday over concerns…

Silicon Valley execs will convene in San Francisco to discuss privacy

Monday, June 25, 2018 5:01 pmMonday, June 25, 20181 Comment

Privacy and government affairs officers from a number of the largest tech companies plan to convene..

LG admits: iPhone loyalists are driving us crazy

Monday, June 18, 2018 2:30 pmMonday, June 18, 201828 Comments

If you’re capable of sympathy, can you spare some for Android manufacturers?

The 18 things you may not realize Facebook knows about you: Firm reveals the extent of its spying in a 454-page document to U.S. Congress

Tuesday, June 12, 2018 5:03 pm13 Comments

The creepy ways Facebook spies on its users have been detailed in a bumper document…

Apple pummels privacy-trampling Facebook

Thursday, June 7, 2018 4:50 pmThursday, June 7, 201811 Comments

In the early days of Apple, of course, the company’s Evil Empires were IBM and Microsoft…

Facebook confirms sharing users’ personal data with Chinese companies

Wednesday, June 6, 2018 6:00 pmWednesday, June 6, 201810 Comments

Facebook Inc said Tuesday it has data sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese companies…

Apple needs to advertise their strong commitment to privacy

Wednesday, June 6, 2018 8:55 amWednesday, June 6, 20182 Comments

The greatest commercial in Apple history — perhaps all history — did not show an Apple product…

Apple borks Facebook’s pervasive personal data-harvesting operation

Tuesday, June 5, 2018 11:28 amTuesday, June 5, 20185 Comments

Apple’s software-focused event on Monday was a momentous moment — for Facebook…

Apple requested ‘zero’ personal data in deals with Facebook – CEO Tim Cook

Tuesday, June 5, 2018 10:27 amTuesday, June 5, 20187 Comments

“We’ve never been in the data business,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told NPR on Monday…

Facebook CEO blasts Apple’s latest privacy protections as ‘cute virtue signaling’

Tuesday, June 5, 2018 9:58 amTuesday, June 5, 201814 Comments

Apple is taking active steps to block Facebook’s data collection practices…

Facebook gave personal data to 60 companies including Apple, Amazon and Samsung

Monday, June 4, 2018 9:30 amMonday, June 4, 201819 Comments

Facebook struck agreements allowing phone and other device makers access to vast amounts of its users’ personal information…

Mark Zuckerberg’s worldwide Facebook apology tour hits a snag in the EU

Wednesday, May 23, 2018 3:35 pmWednesday, May 23, 201818 Comments

Turns out “sorry” doesn’t seem to work as much for the social network’s chief anymore…

Another day, another reason to never downgrade from Apple’s iPhone to Android

Thursday, May 10, 2018 10:26 am19 Comments

Android is the world’s most popular mobile platform by a landslide…

Yet another reason I’ll never downgrade from Apple’s iPhone to an Android phone,

Monday, May 7, 2018 1:09 pmMonday, May 7, 201822 Comments

For a period of time, I almost always carried an Android phone with me in addition to my main iPhone…

How to remove third-party accounts like Facebook from your Mac

Friday, May 4, 2018 11:30 amFriday, May 4, 20183 Comments

With the release of iOS 11, Apple nixed its built-in integration with Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Vimeo…

Apple responds to personal data request with 9MB file: The personal data archives from Facebook and Google were 881MB and 243MB respectively

Friday, May 4, 2018 11:01 amFriday, May 4, 201816 Comments

Following Facebook’s acknowledgement that it had let a political ad targeting firm scrape the personal data of millions of users…

Cambridge Analytica shuts down after Facebook user-data scandal

Wednesday, May 2, 2018 4:32 pmWednesday, May 2, 201814 Comments

Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign…

Hackers built a ‘master key’ for millions of hotel rooms, garages, and storage units

Wednesday, April 25, 2018 3:27 pm12 Comments

Security researchers have built a master key that exploits a design flaw in a popular and widely used hotel electronic lock system…

Beleaguered Facebook heading down a troubled path

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 3:27 pmWednesday, April 18, 201811 Comments

The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica saga is not going away quietly, underscored by Mark Zuckerberg’s…

Facebook points fingers Google, Amazon and Twitter for also harvesting user data

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 6:12 pmTuesday, April 17, 201819 Comments

Facebook wants users to know that it’s not the only one tracking their every move on the internet…

Beleaguered Facebook may face billions in fines over facial recognition tool storing biometric data without user consent

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:44 pmTuesday, April 17, 20186 Comments

Facebook could face billions of dollars in fines after a federal judge ruled that the company…

I was one of the very first people on Facebook. I shouldn’t have trusted Mark Zuckerberg

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 11:28 amTuesday, April 17, 201812 Comments

Fourteen years, two months, and eight days ago, I made a mistake…

Facebook AI predicts your future and sells this info to advertisers

Monday, April 16, 2018 3:32 pm10 Comments

Facebook’s artificial intelligence software can predict your future behaviour and sells this information to advertisers…

Android’s trust problem isn’t getting better

Friday, April 13, 2018 5:00 pmFriday, April 13, 20188 Comments

Android is used by 2 billion people around the world, tolerated more than loved, and susceptible to major lapses in user privacy and security….

Why there shouldn’t be a ‘next Facebook’

Friday, April 13, 2018 3:24 pmSaturday, April 14, 201816 Comments

Social media networks are like cigarettes…

Android phone makers skip Google security updates without telling users, researchers say

Friday, April 13, 2018 9:57 amFriday, April 13, 20187 Comments

Android smartphone manufacturers are skipping security patches without notifying users, instead claiming their smartphone’s software is up to date…

Zuckerberg admits Facebook collects data on non-users

Thursday, April 12, 2018 1:30 pmThursday, April 12, 201819 Comments

We’ve already learned quite a bit from Mark Zuckerberg’s grilling on Capitol Hill….

Facebook is lying about your data

Thursday, April 12, 2018 12:56 pm14 Comments

Mark Zuckerberg’s Congress testimony following the Cambridge Analytica breach…

Apple co-founder Woz deactivates Facebook account

Thursday, April 12, 2018 8:59 amThursday, April 12, 20188 Comments

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak announced that he has quit Facebook…

How Facebook lets brands and politicians target users

Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:01 pmWednesday, April 11, 20188 Comments

When Facebook introduced its ad platform in 2007, advertisers could target people using information they had volunteered…

Facebook’s Zuckerberg was ready to slam Apple if Congress asked him about Tim Cook’s privacy comments

Wednesday, April 11, 2018 9:34 amWednesday, April 11, 201815 Comments

It started when Cook was asked what he would do if he were faced with the problems facing Facebook…

How to remove your Facebook data from macOS

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 5:51 pm5 Comments

Whether you’re planning on keeping your Facebook account, are debating deleting it, or already have…

Apple CEO Cook: ‘Privacy to us is a human right… a civil liberty’

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 3:03 pmTuesday, April 10, 201822 Comments

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Washington D.C. Tuesday to testify before Congress about customer privacy…

Should Apple create a social network that doesn’t abuse, but protects user privacy?

Monday, April 9, 2018 12:06 pm40 Comments

Recently, Tim Cook gave multiple interviews on Apple’s commitment to protecting their privacy…

Apple co-founder Woz quits Facebook

Monday, April 9, 2018 10:05 amMonday, April 9, 201817 Comments

Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak said he’s leaving Facebook amid concerns about privacy and data violations…

Mark Zuckerberg admits Facebook scans the contents of all private Messenger texts

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 4:50 pm33 Comments

Facebook scans the contents of messages that people send each other on its Messenger app…

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