Tag: spying
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Does Your Smart TV Cam Spy On You? What To Do!
Smart TV cam spying on you? Need confirmation that it is actually doing this? Unfortunately, of course, we cannot answer this specific question. We can look into the issue though and give it an honest opinion. So, if it is an honest opinion you are after, read on.
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Samsung Updates Worrying Smart TV Policy
Yesterday we reported on Samsung’s questionable privacy policy for their smart TV’s, which had some users up in arms as the company revealed that voice input data collected by the television sets would be passed on to a mysterious third party once gathered. “Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other […]
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NoFlyZone Protects Users From Drones
You’re probably worried about drones as much as we are – these consumer owned devices have the ability to potentially snoop into homes and offices using their unprecedented access to high places. It’s actually not strictly legal to shoot down a drone that’s spying on you, even if it’s above your land. According to Ryan Calo, […]
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Samsung Smart TVs Raise Spying Concerns
There’s a current climate of suspicion in the tech world right now around the way companies use our data. Whilst the governments of the world are notorious for their spying, snooping and general shiftiness online, other concerns have been raised around the way devices handle our personal information and other private data. Whilst mobile phone […]
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NSA Boasts Cyberwarfare Capabilities
Security agencies in America are notoriously embroiled in computer based methods of espionage, and outright warfare on the odd occasion. Now, hot off the presses from Edward Snowden’s leaked NSA secrets comes a good round of boasting from the NSA themselves, as the agency appears to be bragging about their formidable cyber warfare abilities against […]
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Brazil Laying Their Own New Internet Cables
In the wake of the Edward Snowden/Wikileaks/NSA snooping debacle, the world has really woken up to government spying on the internet. Companies such as Google and Microsoft are suing the US Government for better transparency, Apple is mobilising its security people to encrypt data on smartphones – the entire tech industry is abuzz with the […]
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FBI Slams Anti Snooping Encryption Methods
Big shady government organisations are much more common in the US than here in the UK. More often than not, the biggest ones are quite opposed to the idea of tech companies embracing new ways to keep user data out of the hands of government snoopers, with some new mobile phones possibly being ‘snoop-proof’ due […]
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Apple releases official Q&A to explain location tracking fiasco
Just about a week ago researchers uncovered a hidden cache within Apple’s iOS 4.0+ software which stores the location data from iPhone and iPad 3G users, and uploads it to Apple. Naturally, the tech world pointed the finger at Steve Jobs and Apple, claiming they were secretly tracking iPhone and iPad users’ location. Apple has […]
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Apple releases official Q&A to explain location tracking fiasco
Just about a week ago researchers uncovered a hidden cache within Apple’s iOS 4.0+ software which stores the location data from iPhone and iPad 3G users, and uploads it to Apple. Naturally, the tech world pointed the finger at Steve Jobs and Apple, claiming they were secretly tracking iPhone and iPad users’ location. Apple has […]
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Patent reveals spying with iPhone was planned – but Apple Boss denies.
You may be well aware by now that the “i” in the sky is watching you – so there’s no real surprise to find that this was planned some time ago and Apple’s iPhone patent for its “Location histories for location aware devices” has just been exposed! Published on March 3rd 2011, the patent details […]
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First it was Apple, now reports show Google also spies on us through Android software!
Following reports this week that Apple are secretly keeping tabs on our whereabouts from iPhone, we’re now hearing accusations that the Google Android operating system also has been seriously compromising user privacy by similarly recording and relaying location information amongst other details. The Wall Street Journal reported that a top security analyst (and former hacker) […]