The week in news: your mobile apps are spying on you

Saturday, February 18, 2012

The week in news: your mobile apps are spying on you

Google bites into Apple, crams down cookies | Google allegedly ignored iPhone privacy settings

Today's InfoWorld Headlines: Wrap Up

Are your mobile apps spying on you?
The controversy over Path, a mobile social networking app that hoovered up its users' address books without telling them and got spanked for it, has just become a much bigger deal. How much do mobile apps really know about you? More than you might think. Read More

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Google bites into Apple, crams down cookies
Google has been caught with its hands quite literally in the cookie jar again. And no amount of Doubleclick -- er, double talk -- is going to save it this time. Read More

Google allegedly ignored iPhone privacy settings
The Wall Street Journal has charged that Google, along with a number of other advertising agencies, have planted code on millions of iPhones that allows the companies to track user behavior. Google has admitted that code inadvertently allowed additional Google Web advertising cookies to be installed on users' phones, against users' wishes. Read More

Google's tracking of Safari users could lead to FTC investigation
Google's alleged circumvention of do-not-track controls on Apple's Safari browser could lead to big fines from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission if the agency determines Google has violated a privacy settlement the company agreed to. Read More

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It's time for corporate developers to get on board with Metro apps
A former Microsoft distinguished engineer gives a good argument for Metro apps running Windows on ARM as the general-purpose corporate platform. Read More

Microsoft's not so happy Valentine's Day
Security Essentials false positives, an extensive Hotmail outage, and errors when installing a Black Tuesday patch made for a bad day in Redmond. Read More

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A shadowy vendor of botnet construction kits based on Citadel Trojan provides a platform with customer service that commercial software companies could learn from. Read More