Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on February 8 at 3:01 pm PT
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
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Liz Gannes in Social on February 8 at 12:24 pm PT
Personal social network Path got
called out yesterday for automatically uploading users’ address books to its servers. Now the company has formally apologized and introduced a fix. CEO Dave Morin
wrote in a blog post, “We now understand that the way we had designed our ‘Add Friends’ feature was wrong. We are deeply sorry if you were uncomfortable with how our application used your phone contacts.”
John Paczkowski in News on February 3 at 1:11 pm PT
Motorola sells a bunch of refurbished Xoom tablets without wiping them of their previous owners’ data.
John Paczkowski in News on February 3 at 4:00 am PT
Google’s efforts to assuage concerns in Washington over proposed changes to its privacy policy don’t seem to be going well at all.
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Lauren Goode in News on January 30 at 12:11 pm PT
A half-dozen former FDA employees have
filed suit against the agency, offering evidence it secretly monitored their personal email for two years after they took their concerns about medical-device approvals to Congress. According to the Washington Post, the staffers contend the workplace monitoring was improper because the private activity was legal; the FDA may counter with allegations that confidential information was being disclosed.
Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 30 at 9:03 am PT
The souped-up shoes are aimed at caretakers who need to monitor people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. However, they raise some technical — and legal — questions.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 26 at 2:29 pm PT
Though Internet companies seemed to have found their political voices during the U.S. SOPA/PIPA debate over Internet piracy last week, they’re less up in arms about another proposed bill.
Jess Bravin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 23 at 9:43 am PT
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police must obtain a warrant before attaching a GPS tracker to a suspect’s vehicle, voting unanimously in one of the first major cases to test constitutional privacy rights in the digital age.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 18 at 8:30 am PT
It’s never a good idea for sites and apps to abuse or lose track of users’ personal data. But not all personal data was created equal.
