Friday, January 31, 2014

Weekly Review of Privacy in the News - Week ended 1/31/2014

NSA watching phone users with google maps:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/nsa-gchq-smartphone-app-angry-birds-personal-data

Facebook app asks for permission to read your text messages:
http://www.fastcompany.com/3025589/fast-feed/why-is-facebooks-app-asking-to-read-your-text-messages

British government spying on Youtube and Facebook users worldwide.  Companies deny any knowledge of the surveillance:
http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/27/22469304-snowden-docs-reveal-british-spies-snooped-on-youtube-and-facebook?lite

US government and privacy advocates reach compromise which will allow companies to publicly disclose some additional data about how much data they are forced to turn over to the government under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, pending approval by the FISA court:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NSA_SURVEILLANCE_COMPANIES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Rand Paul says Hillary is a big proponent of surveillance state:
http://www.nationaljournal.com/technology/rand-paul-hillary-clinton-is-a-big-proponent-of-the-surveillance-state-20140128

US looks for ways to prevent spying on its spying activities:
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20140128/DABJG0G80.html

Google+ and Candy Crush are among 'leakiest apps', leaking all sorts of personal information about you to anyone: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-29/nsa-spying-on-apps-shows-perils-of-google-candy-crush-.html

Yahoo detected major hack attack and is asking users to reset passwords:
http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-hack-password-reset-2014-1



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