What’s that coming over the hill, is it a monster? No in fact it’s Microsoft . We have seen Apple sitting at the top of the pile for some time now in the mobile phone market. However new entrances from RIM Blackberry, Google Android look to change this. This competition is yet to increase again, [...]
Recent research shows that some of the most popular apps designed for the Google Android phones do not tell users what is done with their own personal data and does not tell users what data is being gathered. Researchers logged certain applications to see how much data was being gathered. “It turned out that 15 [...]
Eric Schmidt comments come as hundreds of millions of web users worldwide are increasing the amounts of personal information using social networking sites such as Facebook, Twiter and other sites, the chief executive warned that users may not be fully aware of the consequences. He believes that all young people will eventually be allowed to [...]
Microsoft is working on a competitor to Google’s Street View and have dubbed their project “Street Slide“. Current street level mapping technology provides a limited viewpoint for the user to utilize, but Street Slide allows the user to change the viewpoint and get a different perspective on what they’re looking at. The improved viewpoints are [...]
The UK’s information Commissioner Office says Google did not collect “significant” personal information when it’s StreetView software accessed unsecured Wi-Fi networks. The claim follows a review of some of the data collected by Google, who said the information was collected “mistakenly” due to a piece of “rogue code”. Revelation that Google had collected data from [...]
Google is under pressure to name the engineers responsible for the “rogue” piece of code that downloaded personal information from unsecured wireless networks. The data was collected by Google’s Street View cars, which were meant to just take photographs and record the location of wireless networks. 38 US states have formed a coalition, headed by [...]
Google has won a landmark lawsuit brought by media conglomerate Viacom, accusing the internet giant of “massive intentional copyright infringement”. Viacom said Google and Youtube should be help accountable for the tens of thousands of copyrighted videos that are posted illegally by users, but District Judge Louis Stanton said: “Mere knowledge of prevalence of such [...]
Google’s Street View software will come under more scrutiny this week as it was announced that a multi-state investigation will take place in America. Google has admitted that its software “accidentally” accessed unprotected wi-fi networks as their Street View cars drove around 30 countries across the world. The investigation will attempt to find out how [...]
Google was plunged into the spotlight again today as it was revealed that their Google Street View service was used to collect sensitive information from from unprotected wi-fi networks, including email passwords. Google handed over data to French data protection company CNIL following an official request from the company, to help it decide whether or [...]
