According to the latest Snowden leaks, Britain’s GCHQ can remotely control iPhones and Android devices using “targeted” tools. Meanwhile, the NSA can tap “leaky” apps to determine a person’s age and location, and in some cases even their sexual orientation and political views.
VIENNA – Sexual orientation, private debt, medical records, even your favorite ice cream flavor: do you know much of this personal information is out there and available for sale? And what if it could affect your job applications, whether you can rent a house or how high your insurance premium will be?
The group Europe v. Facebook seems to have opened a floodgate of disturbing revelations against Facebook, one of them being the possibility that Facebook creates ‘Shadow Profiles’ for all its members, and even those who have yet to register themselves. This allegation is one of the 22 complaints that the group filed against Facebook and […]
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