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App makers' address-book apology
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The makers of Path and Hipster iPhone apps apologise for accessing phone contacts without explicit permission....
LinkedIn updates iOS app following data transmission concerns, but insists: “It’s a great feature.”
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Earlier today we reported that the LinkedIn iOS app collects full meeting notes and details from your device’s calendar and sends them back to the company in plain text. The information is gathered without explicit permission by a feature that allows users to access their calendar within the app. Well,...
Path 2 uploads your address book, but says it’s to ‘match friends’ and will be opt-in soon
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Developer Arun Thampi was doing a bit of hacking around with Path 2, trying to get a version of it running on OS X as an experiment, when he discovered that the app actually uploads your entire address book when it is launched. This obviously raised concerns about what the app...
LinkedIn’s iOS app collects and sends names, emails and meeting notes from your calendar back, in plain text
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The LinkedIn mobile app for iOS devices collects full meeting notes and details from your device’s calendar and sends them back to the company, The Next Web has been informed. The information is gathered without explicit permission by a feature that allows users to access their calendar within the app. This raises...
LinkedIn’s iOS app collects and sends names, emails and meeting notes from your calendar back, in plain text
Could an Oracle Win Against Google Blow Up the Cloud?
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What will happen to companies that clone Amazon's APIs if APIs can be copyrighted? Photo: U.S. Air Force A San Francisco court has spent the past few weeks considering a copyright question that could weigh heavy on the future of cloud computing. It’s part of a high-profile lawsuit between Oracle...
After Instagram, which tech startups are most likely to be bought?
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As Facebook snaps up the mobile photo app, will Pintrest, Path or Square be next in attracting a tech giant's millions?Who'll be the next in line for a buyout, now that Facebook has gobbled up Instagram? We pick the obvious candidates.Path, the "life-sharing" app(This got dinged in the tech press...
Apps Uploading Address Books Is A Privacy Side-Show Compared To DPI
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While the hand-wringing over the future of journalism, blogging, the nature of conflicts of interest, yada yada, has been deeply interesting (alongside the personal attacks – we all like a good public fight don’t we?), it’s worth recalling that the furore was kicked off by a fairly pertinent point. To...
LeakedIn: Check if your LinkedIn password was leaked with this tool
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The LinkedIn password release debacle is still in full swing, as millions discover that their account was potentially compromised. I recommend that you, no matter what, change your LinkedIn password. However, if you want to see whether or not your account was specifically made unsafe, there is an answer. Meet...
A Lawyer Who Is Also A Photographer Just Deleted All Her Pinterest Boards Out Of Fear
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A woman named Kristen decided to look into the legality of Pinterest. After all, she's a lawyer with a passion for photography. What she found scared her so much, she shut down her Pinterest boards entirely. Kristen's investigation began after she saw photographers complaining about copyright violations on Facebook. ...
iOS apps and the address book: what you need to know
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Over the course of the past week, a firestorm has erupted in the world of iOS apps, thanks to the discovery that Path was uploading data from your iPhone's address book without asking for explicit permission. Upon opening the app and registering, Path automatically uploaded your contact data in...
Two Months Removed From AddressGate, Path Starts Hashing, Anonymizing Data
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Back in early February, Path met with some serious backlash when Arun Thampi revealed that the social app was uploading address book data without explicit permission from its users. Path responded by taking Mike Arrington’s advice, deleting the entire collection of user-uploaded contact information from its servers, and an update...
iPhone Address Book Fiasco Should Be Apple's Cue to Build Its Own Social Network
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Apple is good at many things, but so far, it has not excelled at "social" Web services. For example, Ping, the music-focused service it launched in 2010, is seen as one of its rare failures. But now Apple has a real chance to do something "social" properly, by turning its...
Oracle / Google Verdict Suggests Open-ness Must Be Licensed
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The central issue in Oracle's Java copyright/patent case against Google, which has been lost after a million-and-one interpretations of the case over the last two years, remains this: If Company #1 implicitly grants Company #2 the right to use technology that #1 created and owns, to the extent that...
Facebook Accused Of Reading Users Text Messages
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Ahead of Mobile World Congress and an appearance by Facebook to explain it’s next moves in mobile, the social networking giant is coming under increasing strain over its use of users’ personal information. Mobile startups and operators are both fretting over the issue this week, as smartphones and the apps...
Social apps & doing the right thing
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For the past week or so, our little corner of the Internet has been abuzz with news of mobile apps uploading iPhone address books without asking us — the iPhone (and address book) owners. It all started with Path, a much talked about iPhone app that offers a very limited...
Criminal Creativity: Untangling Cover Song Licensing on YouTube
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We all break laws. Every day, millions of people jaywalk, download music, and drive above the speed limit. Some laws are obscure, others are inconvenient, and others are just fun to break. Codeword Andy Baio There are millions of cover songs on YouTube, with around 12,000 new covers uploaded...
iOS Photo and Video Privacy Issues Highlighted with New Test Application
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Earlier this month, privacy issues related to the uploading of users' address books to developers' servers were cast into the limelight as Congress requested details from Apple on how private information is handled and protected. While Apple quickly responded to note that it would be addressing the issue by requiring...
Social Media Memory App Timehop Adds "Pinterest for Your Past"
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The world’s gone Pinterest-crazy. Ladies like to use it. Web sites want to be it. Others could possibly want to sue it. And now another social media app is introducing “Pinterest-like” boards: Timehop. Timehop, in case you’e never used it, is a nifty social media aggregator that sends you daily...
Path 2.1 Launches With Smarter Camera, Shazam-Like Music Match & Support for Nike+
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Path, the up-and-coming private social network, had a couple of rough days last month because it uploaded its users' address books to its servers without their explicit permission. Today, however, the company is focusing squarely on its product again with the release of version 2.1 of its iOS app. This...
Apple Bows to iPhone Privacy Pressures
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Under pressure from regulators, Apple responded to complaints that dozens of iPhone applications have been accessing, transmitting and storing user contact data without explicit permission....
IOS apps could upload photo library, along with location info
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The New York Times is out with a story Tuesday that says a “loophole” in Apple’s mobile software allows developers of iOS apps to upload a user’s photo library without specific permission to do so. According to the story, when a user grants permission to a downloaded app to use the...
Fix reportedly coming for iOS photo uploading loophole
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A loophole within iOS that allows developers to surreptitiously upload users' photos and location data without their knowledge may soon have a fix. The Verge reported on Tuesday evening that its sources said Apple is aware of the bug and is "likely planning a fix" as part of an...
Verizon adding Carrier IQ-like remote diagnostics tool to various devices
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It has been just over three months since the Carrier IQ “spygate” epidemic engulfed the mobile world. As smartphones and tablets become more powerful, consumers are becoming even more concerned with their mobile privacy as numerous smartphones have been found to track users’ locations, phone calls, text messages and...
Forget startups, IBM may take home the SDN prize
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Last week, IBM made a significant announcement that received relatively little attention. The IBM System Networking Distributed Virtual Switch 5000V is the first third party virtual switching platform for VMware environments. Of course, Cisco has the Nexus 1000v, but given the long history, investment, and VCE joint venture, it doesn’t...
Path Isn't Only App to Upload, Store Address Book Data
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Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare and Yelp upload names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers, sometimes without explicit permission....
Apple Requires User Permission Before Apps Can Access Personal Data in iOS 6
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Earlier this year, Apple came under fire from consumers advocates and Congress after it was discovered that apps, most notably Path, were uploading users' entire address books to their servers without alerting users or asking for authorization. Path deleted the information, but a pair of U.S. Congressmen sent a letter...
Daily Report: Judge Says TV Streaming Service May Continue
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Aereo, the streaming TV start-up backed by Barry Diller, can keep streaming for now, Brian Stelter reports in Thursday's New York Times. A federal judge denied a temporary injunction sought by television broadcasters that would have shut down Aereo, which streams local TV channels without explicit permission....
Twitter patent pact would avert lawsuit over pull-to-refresh
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Twitter VP of Engineering Addam Messinger in a statement hoped to reassure developers that it wouldn't sue over patents like Loren Brichter's pull-to-refresh control. A new Innovator's Patent Agreement would only allow using a patent for defensive purposes unless Twitter had explicit permission from the inventor. The pact would also...
iPhone address book issue prompts response Apple, access to contact data will require user permission
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A week ago today, developer Arun Thampi detailed on his blog how the Path app for iOS accessed users' contact information and uploaded that data to Path's servers -- all without any explicit permission granted on the user's part. That sparked quite the firestorm, including investigations into which other...
iPhone address book issue prompts response Apple, access to contact data will require user permission
Apple to Require Explicit Permission for iOS Apps Accessing Address Book Data
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Just hours after a pair of U.S. Congressmen sent a letter to Apple requesting information on privacy practices, specifically as they relate to address book data being collected and stored by the apps' developers, Apple has issued a statement to AllThingsD indicating that the issue will be addressed in a...
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