What if your favorite dating, social media or gaming app revealed your exact coordinates to someone you’d rather keep at a distance? In today’s digital age, geolocation features in many apps offer undeniable convenience. Just before writing this blog, I needed to locate some materials for a DIY project, and using the ‘click and collect’ … More The great location leak: Privacy risks in dating apps
In November, fitness tracking app firm Strava released what it described as a “most beautiful” dataset – a heatmap of more than more than 3 trillion individual GPS data points, as their users run, cycle, and hike across the globe. And I agree it’s very beautiful and can certainly see how it might be useful to other … More Privacy of fitness tracking apps in the spotlight after soldiers’ exercise routes shared online
Hands up. I admit it. I’m not really of the Snapchat generation. Somehow or another I manage to make my way through daily life without feeling the need to chat with online friends through the incredibly popular (apart from in my house) smartphone app. Frankly, I’m worried – rightly or wrongly – that there might … More Enable Ghost Mode in Snapchat NOW if you want to keep your location private
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