http://www.slashgear.com Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:16:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.slashgear.com/apple-denies-prism-backdoor-imessage-end-to-end-encrypted-17286661/ http://www.slashgear.com/apple-denies-prism-backdoor-imessage-end-to-end-encrypted-17286661/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:09:01 +0000 Chris Davies http://www.slashgear.com/?p=286661 Google - had given the NSA privileged access ... to react strongly to the accusations. Google CEO Larry Page got in early... Apple Statement on "Commitment to Customer Privacy": Two weeks ago, when technology ...]]> http://www.slashgear.com/apple-denies-prism-backdoor-imessage-end-to-end-encrypted-17286661/feed/ 6 http://www.slashgear.com/google-says-no-to-facial-recognition-glassware-until-privacy-issues-are-addressed-31284498/ http://www.slashgear.com/google-says-no-to-facial-recognition-glassware-until-privacy-issues-are-addressed-31284498/#comments Sat, 01 Jun 2013 04:07:22 +0000 Brittany Hillen http://www.slashgear.com/?p=284498 privacy issues have been addressed. In the ... Google+ regarding Glass, facial recognition, and privacy, saying that no Glassware with ... dependent on many factors related to privacy. Google goes on to say ...]]> http://www.slashgear.com/google-says-no-to-facial-recognition-glassware-until-privacy-issues-are-addressed-31284498/feed/ 4 http://www.slashgear.com/google-glass-banned-at-companys-own-shareholders-meeting-07285371/ http://www.slashgear.com/google-glass-banned-at-companys-own-shareholders-meeting-07285371/#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:59:17 +0000 Craig Lloyd http://www.slashgear.com/?p=285371 Google's annual shareholders meeting yesterday,...Glass during shareholders meetings because of privacy concerns. Consumer Watchdog, a non-...when it comes to their own privacy Google executives jealously guard it."...]]> http://www.slashgear.com/google-glass-banned-at-companys-own-shareholders-meeting-07285371/feed/ 15 http://www.slashgear.com/google-glass-facial-recognition-service-likely-to-stoke-privacy-fears-25283608/ http://www.slashgear.com/google-glass-facial-recognition-service-likely-to-stoke-privacy-fears-25283608/#comments Sat, 25 May 2013 14:47:51 +0000 Chris Davies http://www.slashgear.com/?p=283608 privacy regulation. Lambda's service has been ... icons, the facial identification system leads Google's headset into even murkier privacy... off a list of privacy-related questions to Google CEO Larry Page, ...]]> http://www.slashgear.com/google-glass-facial-recognition-service-likely-to-stoke-privacy-fears-25283608/feed/ 11 http://www.slashgear.com/nsa-and-fbi-reportedly-pulling-data-directly-from-google-microsoft-and-more-06285292/ http://www.slashgear.com/nsa-and-fbi-reportedly-pulling-data-directly-from-google-microsoft-and-more-06285292/#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2013 01:18:24 +0000 Brittany Hillen http://www.slashgear.com/?p=285292 Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and PalTalk. Apple ...the companies accused to deny involvement. Google, Yahoo and Dropbox all denied ...remain committed to protecting our users’ privacy." Said Facebook to TNW: "We ...]]> http://www.slashgear.com/nsa-and-fbi-reportedly-pulling-data-directly-from-google-microsoft-and-more-06285292/feed/ 10 http://www.slashgear.com/google-glass-creators-talk-staring-and-the-social-implications-of-wearables-21283032/ http://www.slashgear.com/google-glass-creators-talk-staring-and-the-social-implications-of-wearables-21283032/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 21:50:56 +0000 Chris Burns http://www.slashgear.com/?p=283032 Google I/O 2013. As we ... with Glass at this year's Google developers convention, it only made ...the camera. A lot of the privacy questions are around the camera ..., like all other teams at Google. So by design, that's ...]]> http://www.slashgear.com/google-glass-creators-talk-staring-and-the-social-implications-of-wearables-21283032/feed/ 5 http://www.slashgear.com/cracked-glass-why-wearables-are-the-next-security-maelstrom-04284709/ http://www.slashgear.com/cracked-glass-why-wearables-are-the-next-security-maelstrom-04284709/#comments Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:31:32 +0000 Chris Davies http://www.slashgear.com/?p=284709 Google has developed. That, Rogers argues, ..."What is the difference between wearing Google Glass and wearing a pinhole camera?... a practical mainstream way to balance privacy and security with future wearables. ...]]> http://www.slashgear.com/cracked-glass-why-wearables-are-the-next-security-maelstrom-04284709/feed/ 4 http://www.slashgear.com/national-intelligence-chief-slams-prism-reports-for-dangerous-inaccuracies-07285323/ http://www.slashgear.com/national-intelligence-chief-slams-prism-reports-for-dangerous-inaccuracies-07285323/#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:32:01 +0000 Chris Davies http://www.slashgear.com/?p=285323 Google, Apple, Facebook, and others have all... and the numerous safeguards that protect privacy and civil liberties. I believe it... to respecting the civil liberties and privacy of all American citizens. James ...]]> http://www.slashgear.com/national-intelligence-chief-slams-prism-reports-for-dangerous-inaccuracies-07285323/feed/ 13 http://www.slashgear.com/nsa-prism-whistleblower-edward-snowden-steps-forward-09285495/ http://www.slashgear.com/nsa-prism-whistleblower-edward-snowden-steps-forward-09285495/#comments Sun, 09 Jun 2013 21:19:57 +0000 Chris Davies http://www.slashgear.com/?p=285495 privacy. "I really want the focus to be on ... systems to which the NSA hold the keys, with Google and others particularly outspoken about their privacy policies. Google, for instance, claims to have never even ...]]> http://www.slashgear.com/nsa-prism-whistleblower-edward-snowden-steps-forward-09285495/feed/ 4 http://www.slashgear.com/street-view-being-used-by-authorities-to-pinpoint-tax-evasion-31284496/ http://www.slashgear.com/street-view-being-used-by-authorities-to-pinpoint-tax-evasion-31284496/#comments Sat, 01 Jun 2013 02:59:06 +0000 Brittany Hillen http://www.slashgear.com/?p=284496 Google has been accused by many of violating privacy with Street View, and those accusations may increase as the ..., however. The latest two cases that have resulted from Google Maps-based discoveries of possible tax evasion have resulted in $...]]> http://www.slashgear.com/street-view-being-used-by-authorities-to-pinpoint-tax-evasion-31284496/feed/ 5 http://www.slashgear.com/eff-mozilla-reddit-send-open-letter-to-congress-over-nsa-spying-11286047/ http://www.slashgear.com/eff-mozilla-reddit-send-open-letter-to-congress-over-nsa-spying-11286047/#comments Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:02:28 +0000 Craig Lloyd http://www.slashgear.com/?p=286047 Google and Facebook. Because of this, 86 civil liberties groups have...and PIPA last year, which aims to cut down on privacy in favor of better security to stop terrorists. However,...]]> http://www.slashgear.com/eff-mozilla-reddit-send-open-letter-to-congress-over-nsa-spying-11286047/feed/ 7 http://www.slashgear.com/google-privacy-director-steps-down-from-position-01276060/ http://www.slashgear.com/google-privacy-director-steps-down-from-position-01276060/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:40:52 +0000 Brian Sin http://www.slashgear.com/?p=276060 Google's severe privacy debacles. One of the .... The second debacle was centered around Google Buzz. The social networking service loaded ... team composed of hundreds of people. Google issued a statement regarding Whitten's ...]]> http://www.slashgear.com/google-privacy-director-steps-down-from-position-01276060/feed/ 7