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New Apple terms allow them to collect and share your “precise, real-time location”
Posted by cjbarnaby in apple, organized crime, privacy, technology, wake up on June 22nd, 2010
Sadly big business is attempting to collect data on you in so many ways. Apple fanboys might not want to know about this… Apple wants to tell everyone where you are whether you like it or not. Privacy takes another tumbleCheck this post New Apple terms allow them to collect and share your "precise, real-time location" from Boing Boing:
iPhone/iPad users: the new version of iTunes showing up on your computer right about now has new, non-negotiable terms of service. If you install it, you "agree" to allow Apple to collect precise information about your location in real time and use it, sell it, or give it away. Apple promises that its location data is "collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you." Of course, AOL thought that the search data it released was anonymous and didn’t personally identify people, either. They were wrong.Privacy Change: Apple Knows Where Your Phone Is And Is Telling People
- iTunes update spies on your listening and sends it to Apple …
- Yet another Facebook privacy risk: emails Facebook sends leak user …
- EFF, AT&T; and Google all on the same side of this privacy fight …
- Infographic: Facebook’s "anti-privacy monopoly"
- Choose Privacy: video from the American Library Assoc
- US gov’t data-laundering: using corporate databases to get around …
iPad Usability: First Findings From User Testing
Posted by cjbarnaby in apple, fanboy, general news, technology on May 25th, 2010
Chinks already appearing in the armor of the new apple icon.Check this post iPad Usability: First Findings From User Testing from CyberJournalist.net:
Usability guru Jakob Nielsen says, “iPad apps are inconsistent and have low feature discoverability, with frequent user errors due to accidental gestures. An overly strong print metaphor and weird interaction styles cause further usability problems.”
Giant ipad queue at Pittsburgh Apple store
Posted by cjbarnaby in apple, fanboy, general news, technology on May 25th, 2010
Like lambs to the slaughter people line up for the latest and greatest niche product from the might Apple. Get ready for more fan boy jizzum all over blogs about how wonderful this limiting good looking product is. Of course that won’t stop people from getting too excited about nothing. Check the link below.Check this post Giant ipad queue at Pittsburgh Apple store from Boing Boing Gadgets:
Unexpected, at least in Steel city! Many have no reservation.
