We have all been burned by it: the web site you must use — your bank, a government site, something else you really want to use. The worst offenders are those where you have no choice: you must use their web site. You go through the whole process of “registering” and then they drop the…
Month: September 2010
Wi-Fi data Collection continues: using YOUR CELL PHONE
Google stopped using their wi-fi “Street View” cars to log wi-fi locations, but they then switched to using peoples Android phones and location-aware mobile apps to collect the same info.
FaceBook Virus or Ethics Violation?
FaceBook presently seems to be demanding a cell phone number as a condition of logging on. It could be a virus forwarding mobile phone numbers to China or Siberia for posting unauthorized charges to cell phones to steal money, or it could be FaceBook actually pulling the same stunt themselves for the same reason — to place unauthorized charges on the cell phones.