That Game on Your Phone May Be Tracking What You’re Watching on TV At first glance, the gaming apps — with names like “Pool 3D,” “Beer Pong: Trickshot” and “Real Bowling Strike 10 Pin” — seem innocuous. One called “Honey Quest” features Jumbo, an animated bear. Yet...
Google And Amazon Are Harming Consumers And Behaving Like Obnoxious Toddlers You might recall that a few years ago, Amazon began banning competing streaming hardware like Apple TV and Google’s Chromecast from the Amazon store because these products competed with...
A New Phone Comes Out. Yours Slows Down. A Conspiracy? No. It happens every year: Apple releases new iPhones, and then hordes of people groan about their older iPhones slowing to a crawl. Just look at the recent data. Between September and early November — when Apple...
Staggering Variety of Clandestine Trackers Found in Popular Android Apps RESEARCHERS AT YALE Privacy Lab and French nonprofit Exodus Privacy have documented the proliferation of tracking software on smartphones, finding that weather, flashlight, ride-sharing, and...
Permissionless data slurping: Why Google’s latest bombshell matters According to an old Chinese proverb: “When a wise man points at the Moon, an idiot looks at his finger.” Google may have been hoping that you were examining a finger, not reading a...
