Tag Archives : Data

Several apps for Android and iPhone doesn’t have privacy policy

Several apps for Android and iPhone doesn’t have privacy policy

A poll published by The Wall Street Journal raised several information gathering and transmitting data of users of smartphones. Among the findings are shared ID, passwords and user location. To collect data the newspaper selected 50 applications for iPhone and Android, based on list of most popular apps for each of the stores. For the analysis, it [...]
Chinese are able to store data in DNA

Chinese are able to store data in DNA

The purpose of inserting more and more data into smaller spaces continues, but both materials when the current techniques have their limits. And it was looking for a bacterium that researchers at Chinese University of Hong Kong have found a way to advance in data storage. The team has managed to store 90GB of data in one gram of cells and also developed [...]
Apple doesn’t like privacy

Apple doesn’t like privacy

Apple has found a simple way to make their consumers agree with the online tracking: block the iTunes Store. It may seem strange, but with the launch of four new iPhone, Apple adopted a new privacy policy and all users who do not want to receive targeted ads – refusing to share information of their location – will not have access to new [...]
Blippy fails big time

Blippy fails big time

We live in the Information Age, with social networks that encourage their users to be exposed, and services increasingly intrusive able to leave until Big Brother scared. Personal preferences to the places that people frequent, one of the most daunting of recent times is the Blippy. We talked this groundbreaking network at the time of its launch. This [...]
Google Dashboard shows you what Google knows about you

Google Dashboard shows you what Google knows about you

Google launched this morning a new page that brings together all the information about the user, data from various Google services and, the most important, about your privacy settings. In the new Google Dashboard, you can control everything related to your account – or even delete it if you wish. To access the Dashboard, the user must enter their [...]
Twitter is under bots control

Twitter is under bots control

Twitter is a fever, with millions of people posting their small sentences every minute. But who or what is really updating information on Twitter? A report published by the company of intelligence of businesses Sysomos affirmed that 24% of the messages of Twitter come from robots of the internet. When just the most actives users are analyzed, the [...]