The US Supreme Court ruling to legalize gay marriages all across the nation was a revolutionary step and it was received with happy emotions all over the world. The tech companies like Google and Facebook too expressed their happiness in their own way. Google showed rainbow colors on searching the term gay marriage while Facebook […]
Teen shot dead while using mobile phone tracking app — All that it took to take the life of an innocent teen was a lost cell phone. CBC News reports that a Canadian teen Jeremy Cook left his mobile phone in a taxi. In order to retrieve the phone, the 18-year old boy used a location tracking […]
Facebook is in hot water. The social media giant is being taken to court by Belgium’s Privacy Commission (BPC), among accusations that it has violated privacy laws. The BPC has slammed Mark Zuckerberg’s creation for spying on non-users and the tracking system that is being utilised by the company. The main issues are not the tracking […]
The US Air Force claims it destroyed ISIS HQ Building within 22 hours following a social media post from an ISIS member. ISIS is known for frequently using social media to propagate its message and gather support. However, the latest claimed airstrike that led to the destruction of its HQ building proves that their frequent posting […]
Do you know that not all web sites honor the native Do Not Track feature of your web browser? Even in the incognito mode, websites can still collect some data from you. Recently in a blog post, Mozilla wrote that with the Tracking Protection feature enabled, the decrease in page load time is as high […]
As a result of a midnight session, the American Senate has voted down the USA Freedom Act- the basis of NSA’s mass surveillance programs. Without its renewal, the National Security Agency won’t be able to collect the bulk phone records of the people. During the session, the Senate debated to reach a consensus to reform […]
Privacy is one of the biggest concern to everyone these days, and to respect your privacy, few days ago Google enabled the option to download and delete your search history. And here again, they came up with one more thing, now you can stop google from tracking you. Yeah, you heard it right, you can stop […]
Facebook can Track Non-Users through ‘a bug’ — Working to fix it as fast as possible. Researchers at Facebook identified a “bug” that allowed them to track people who haven’t ever visited the website. The discovery was made public by Richard Allen, the European policy vice president of the social networking giant, in a blogpost […]
Good Bye GPS — DARPA to present another position-tracking technology. The U.S government’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has prioritized the development of a more dependable and efficient real-time location tracking technology due to the incompetence of GPS in specific situations. The information was made public on Thursday by a document on DARPA’s research projects. […]
Chevrolet will offer parents an uncanny level of oversight when they need to lend the family ride to their kids with its NSA inspired spying feature that will be installed in its upcoming Malibu. The system has been dubbed as Teen Driver and will be launched on the bow-tie brand’s latest mid-sized sedan. The sedan […]
Lenovo has issued a public apology, admitting it “messed up badly” by selling laptops with a controversial tracking software pre-installed.
Tracking apps and spyware are a genuine risk, and an extremely unpleasant invasion of privacy for many. Here are our tips on how to recognize if you have a tracking app on your phone, and what to do about it.
Realtime call-monitoring and GPS tracking of partners by domestic abusers is on the rise, both via dedicated electronic listening devices or using sophisticated spyware software.
Like Facebook, Twitter wants to know which websites you visit and so it has a system for tracking you as you click from site to site, a fact that leads to a pair of interesting questions: “Did you know that?” and “Are you okay with that?” As we will see in a moment, this system