The notion that location information tied to random identifiers is not personally identifiable information is total hogwash. Read More...
Microsoft Identity Guru Accuses Apple, Google of trying to bury privacy alive Read More...
The current abuse of personal device identifiers by Google and Apple is at least as significant as the problems I discussed long ago with Passport Read More...
As the personal phone evolves it will become increasingly obvious that groups within our best tech companies have built businesses based on consciously crafted privacy fibs. Read More...
Conor: Google has clearly stepped into the arena of doing something that could be detrimental to the user's privacy Read More...
49% of testers said privacy and security concerns were the top reason they don’t use check-in services more often Read More...
Google's new report on its activities states, "All available MAC addresses are... written to disk for frames transmitted over both encrypted and unencrypted wireless networks." Read More...
Once you have snooped peoples' MAC addresses, and put them into a database linking them to a street address, you have dramatically changed the way network identifiers work. Read More...
MAC database operators will know not only the locations of people who opt into their system, but of people who opt out, since people who opt in report the device identities of those who don't. Read More...
Prominent privacy watchdog EPIC complains to FCC about improper use of device identifiers. Read More...