Apple has removed "Clueful" from its App store for unspecified reasons. Clueful, an app by security company Bitdefender, revealed deviant apps on your iPhone and showed how the data was being accessed and shared without the users knowledge. Read more about iOS Apps might be hiding from you.
The Dead Ushahidi project takes a critical swipe at crowdmapping, making some relevant points along the way: "Using crowdsourcing tech like Ushahidi maps without doing the strategic and programmatic ground work is likely not going to work or change much of anything.
Some clarification on the "how secure are we on Skype?" question.
The social media giant has appealed a US court ruling that will force it to hand over account information about, and tweets posted by, an Occupy Wall Street protestor. Read more here.
Websites often use other companies or company products to track you online. Who are these companies, and which websites are using them to find out who you are and what you're doing? From 1 to 100, a list of the most-visited websites in the US, and how they're keeping track. Read more here.
Our use of mobile electronic devices means that we are now more easily tracked than ever before. But who exactly has this information? Well, Facebook, for one. Every time you log into your account, Facebook records your location – though not very accurately, as this article in ITWorld points out.
Syrian journalists and activists also need to be particularly vigilant. The latest "offering" from pro-Syrian-government hackers is a fake security tool called AntiHacker. Claiming to provide enhanced security, the malware does the exact opposite – enabling its creators to spy on its victims. Read more here.
Based on a webinar by cybersecurity and data privacy specialist Robert Guerra, the International Journalist's Network has published some important online security tips for journalists.
Very much needed, it would seem – especially in Pakistan, according to recent research conducted by Pakistani human rights organisation Bytes for All. Read about the dangers faced by Pakistani journalists.
How much personal information do we give away on Twitter without realising it? Tweeting about being at home could land you and your address on We Know Your House. Aimed at showing us how easy it is to pinpoint our home address if we tweet about being at home with locations enabled, the website describes itself as a "social networking privacy experiment". Your information stays up for an hour before being permanently deleted.
Surveillance technology is by now a central part of our everyday lives – whether we know it or not. But how committed to corporate social responsibility (CSR) are the companies that sell it? Earlier this year, Privacy International set out to find out by analysing the CSR policies of many of these companies. See what they discovered, here.
