iOS 4 Update Lands Apple in Privacy Trouble
After Facebook and Google faced public wrath and judicial investigations over “privacy concerns” earlier this year, Apple seems to have messed up on the privacy front as well. On Monday, Apple quietly updated its privacy policy as part of the iOS 4 update to allow the company to collect and share your Apple device’s location [...]
Apple, Google, AdMob, mobile advertising, privacy, and competition
Apple restricting third-party advertisers from collecting personal data if they are owned by another platform vendor could be a way of preventing Google’s AdMob from competing directly on the iPhone with Apple’s iAd, but it could also be a sign that Apple, cranky after leaked iPhone prototypes and iPad analytics, is determined to take back [...]
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The new Facebook — are you concerned about your privacy?
Facebook recently announced some huge changes to how, where, and perhaps even why they operate — and it effects every Facebook users’ privacy. Short version: Facebook is “building the social web” by sharing your and your friends’ information with more apps, for longer, and via more places outside Facebook than ever before and they’re opting [...]
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Rally Up: Location-Based Social Networking on the iPad
Location-Based Social Networking has well and truly arrived on the iPad, courtesy the Rally Up iPad app. The app is available for free from the iTunes Store and offers the same functionality as Rally Up’s iPhone app. Privacy has been a major concern for other popular location based services including Foursquare, Gowalla and others. However, [...]