Tag Archive for: Privacy

Facebook Home – Great if you think privacy is dead

Facebook has introduced a new way to utilize its services on Android mobile phones. Facebook Home streamlines keeping in touch with friends, their photos, Likes and shares. The issue is how it impacts your privacy, even if you choose not to use it yourself.
Naked Security – Sophos

Callers chime in on FAA drone privacy meeting

Today the FAA held a two-hour online session to solicit additional comments about the agency’s proposed “Unmanned Aircraft System Test Site Program Privacy Policy” [pdf].
Ms. Smith’s blog

Preserving American Privacy Act would limit domestic drone spying, ban killer drones

The Preserving American Privacy Act (PAPA) [PDF] bill is meant to protect American’s privacy rights from the domestic drones.
Ms. Smith’s blog

Flickr privacy bug changes some private photos to public, then public to private

Across the web, you may frequently come across broken Flickr images replaced with “This image or video is currently unavailable.” Flickr discovered a software bug that affected privacy settings, making some users’ private photos public for as long as 20 days. Then, as a precaution, Flickr set public photos to private. The result is “bad” links all over the place that cause the “currently unavailable”…
Ms. Smith’s blog