Jennifer Valentino-DeVries reports: KidGuard is a phone app that markets itself as a tool for keeping tabs on children. But it has also promoted its surveillance for other purposes and run blog posts with headlines like “How to Read Deleted Texts on Your Lover’s Phone.” A similar app, mSpy, offered [Read More…]
Zack Whittaker reports: At least one server used by an app for parents to monitor their teenagers’ phone activity has leaked tens of thousands of accounts of both parents and children. The mobile app, TeenSafe, bills itself as a “secure” monitoring app for iOS and Android, which lets parents view [Read More…]
I sometimes think people don’t realize the amount of time and passion Joe Cadillic dedicates to informing you all of surveillance issues and online threats to our privacy. We’ll get back to that later in this post, but for now: This week, one of the links he sent me to [Read More…]
Mike Elgan writes: Most email can either be secure or easy to use. You can have one but not both. That’s why people are so excited about a new feature in Google’s Gmail. It’s called Confidential Mode, and it’s an easy way to make email more private. Confidential Mode lets [Read More…]