On today's Pocketnow Daily, we talk about the possible camera in the Samsung Galaxy Fold, the new name for the iPhone SE 2 and more
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Data siphoning by Chinese ad sellers continues on in Asia
The Singtech P10 features firmware linked to a Taiwanese company that sucks up all sorts of personal data and then sells ads against it.
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SCOTUS decides government needs warrant to obtain cellphone location data
Generally, days-old logs of a citizen's location information stored via their wireless carrier will consistently require a search warrant.
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US carriers stop selling location data to brokers, but will for advertisers
The change in policies comes after an investigation into the security holes left open by data brokers that left every cellphone user open to tracking.
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Samsung trademarks “Uhssup” as name for location tracking social app
Live, location-tracking features are coming into popularity and Samsung may be preparing to join in with its own application.
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Google recklessly collected location info from unaware Android users for months on end
Location tracking is already a major privacy concern for many mobile device users, but the way Google's been doing it is far worse than we ever imagined.
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Big Four US carriers create Mobile Authentication Taskforce in search for a unified method
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon are apparently all in for a unified authentication method to better and more efficiently verify user information.
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AccuWeather and other iOS weather apps may continuously feed location data to ad servers
Multiple weather apps that deliver you a forecast based on your GPS and network data also send it to an ad server. They may take more dips into that data.
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Security & Privacy: Location Tracking, ergo ‘They Know Where You Are’
One of the biggest "features" of our mobile devices is also one of the largest areas of concern when it comes to privacy: location tracking.
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Uber sometimes tracks your iPhone location long after closing the app, blames iOS for it
Love it or hate it (or merely tolerate it where and when traditional taxi services just won’t cut it anymore), you have to admit Uber is both a global phenomenon and a legitimate concern for many people for a number of reasons.
Legality, security, unfair competition, data privacy, you name it, Uber’s faced flak for all of them and more. While the latest controversy definitely feels like a lightweight compared to, say, driver rape scandals or questionable surge pricing, it’s always unpleasant for an Internet business to be on the wrong end of a user tracking online debate.
Especially when a reported “glitch” is essentially deemed a feature by the ride-hailing product’s spokespersons, with no “fix” in sight. Yes, it may occasionally seem like Uber is keeping an eye on your location hours, days or even weeks after you actually use the alternative transportation app, close it and leave it untouched.
But apparently, that’s because “location data must be shared in order for you to request a ride inside the Maps app”, as per Apple’s new default iOS stipulations. Otherwise put, it’s your iPhone’s fault if you feel constantly followed. How can you get your privacy back? Simply don’t integrate Uber with iOS Maps or, well, switch to Android.
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