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Chrome app can track location of Facebook users and predict future movements

Chrome app can track location of Facebook users and predict future movements

A developer has created new software to track the real-time locations of those who use Facebook Messenger, it has been announced. This new technology means that Facebook Messenger can track your location to within a metre. The software was created by Harvard computer science and mathematics student, Aran Khanna. His app Marauders Map – named after a Harry Potter book[Read More…]

Yahoo has been accused of spying on email users

Yahoo has been accused of spying on email users

Yahoo has been accused of spying on the emails of their users, it has emerged. The corporation is facing a class action lawsuit, with more than one million people are expected to take part in the case. A Californian judge ruled that any Yahoo Mail users who sent or received an email from October 2nd 2011 can sue. Additionally, a[Read More…]

Samsung warns users TV may record conversations

Samsung warns users TV may record conversations

Samsung has warned its customers not to discuss personal information in front of their TV set, it has been revealed. It said that its modern televisions are recording the conversations of its users and could transmit the messages to “third parties”. Many of the latest sets have microphones so viewers can change channel, turn on a DVD or browse the[Read More…]

Govt outlines plans for nurseries to report “terrorist” toddlers

Govt outlines plans for nurseries to report “terrorist” toddlers

The UK government has outlined plans to require nurseries to hand over details of toddlers they think may have terrorist tendencies it has been reported. Over the years, the reports of terrorists targeting different countries around the world – with France hitting the headlines recently – has led to a raft of new laws, purportedly aimed at reducing terrorism. However,[Read More…]

‘Facebook passing user details to NSA’

‘Facebook passing user details to NSA’

Tech giant Facebook is passing details of all of its users to the National Security Agency (NSA), it has been reported. Privacy campaigner Max Schrems has launched a case against the social giant to force watchdogs to audit personal data allegedly released to US spy bosses by Facebook. Mr Schrems, argued that the Data Protection Commissioner, Billy Hawkes, wrongly refused[Read More…]