Posts Tagged ‘ privacy ’
A recent Computerworld story reveals a shocking violation of student privacy from a Pennsylvania school district. The Lower Merion School District of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, provided laptops to its students, complete with webcams. This by itself is not an issue. What is an issue is that the school district had the ability to remotely activate the webcam [ READ MORE ]
Following on the heels of the Writing for the City Brights blog, Yobie Benjamin pens a very damning attack against the iPhone from a privacy advocate standpoint. His article is an easy read even for those relatively unfamiliar with concepts such as cookies. The single most horrifying thing I have yet to read about Apple or [ READ MORE ]
Matt Hartley writing for Lockergnome reports on a disturbing privacy problem with the Palm Pre, citing a BBC story. The detail of data being sent back to Palm is rather alarming, including user location, application usage patterns, and a list of applications installed on the phone. Palm’s PR department, of course, responds with more spin than [ READ MORE ]