User Privacy


Why 'Do Not Track' Measures May Still Track You


Privacy Concerns Emerge Over Siri's Storage of Your 'Voiceprint'

Even in an age of vanishing privacy, people using Apple's digital assistant Siri share a distinct concern. Recordings of their actual voices, asking questions that might be personal, travel over the Internet to a remote Apple server for processing. Then they remain stored there; Apple won't say for how long. That voice recording, unlike most of the data produced by smart phones and other computers, is an actual biometric identifier.

Google's Privacy Update: What You Need to Know

Google's new privacy update that will allow the company to eventually integrate its products will kick in March 1. Tuesday's news that Google condensed its 70 privacy settings into one easier-to-understand and more transparent document, paves the way for the company to meld its products into a more integrated and intuitive user platform, i.e. Google needed to give itself permission to sync your products in the future.

Are You Sure Those Photos Have Really Been Deleted?

When you delete a photo from a site such as Facebook, Bebo or MySpace, is it really deleted immediately, or even at all? According to some interesting research conducted by Light Blue Touchpaper, many sites do not remove photos even 30 days after the user has deleted them. The study was conducted on 16 sites over the period of 30 days, and the results were awful.