Obey News | Obey News – Obey Information

apps

02/07/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Lyfting your private data: Ride company’s employees brag about spying on users and execs

Lyft employees have been abusing their access to customers’ private data. Thanks to their high access clearances, they’ve been able to stalk people they’d just met and look up trip data for Hollywood actresses and porn stars. At least one employee has bragged about having Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg’s phone number. These were just some […]

01/15/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Augmented reality software has real privacy implications: New app scans faces in pictures and automatically connects to their social media accounts

Do we really need an app that makes it easier for complete strangers to identify us and access our social media profiles? Blippar, a firm based in London, has recently released an augmented reality (AR) app that instantly “scans faces and brings up a profile with information about the person including links to their social […]

01/09/2018 / By Michelle Simmons

It’s not your imagination — your phone really is spying on you: Hundreds of Android apps use the microphone to secretly monitor and record your TV habits

Your phone is actually spying on you. They may not be listening to your conversations, but they are using your device’s microphone to gather information on the ads, TV shows, and movies you watch. A new report from The New York Times revealed that more than 250 gaming apps use the monitoring software called Alphonso, […]

1 of 1