Should Microsoft give up? 14 years ago
Microsoft should give up so consumers have fewer choices and software developers have less work?
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Why are companies defecting from Google Maps? 14 years ago
Other than more street view locations on Google Maps, Bing Maps is far, far superior (mostly in terms of speed, but after using Bing it's painful to go back to Google).
Should All Web Traffic Be Encrypted? 14 years ago
HTTPS Finder dev here - If you go into settings you can turn off the auto-redirect to HTTPS or the actual drop down alerts (or both).
Then you can go into Preferences > Advanced after some browsing, and you'll see a list of all the good sites found. You can create HTTPS Everywhere rules directly from there, without ever being annoyed during your normal browsing.
CyanogenMod will never have Carrier IQ 15 years ago
Nice, but end users shouldn't have to root their phones and install a new OS just to not have all their data logged and reported on.
Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps 15 years ago
As a WP7 user, I emailed HTC yesterday asking whether or not this software (or similar products) are used on their WP7 devices. Here's the response I got:
"Dear Kevin Jacobs,
I understand you would like more information about the Carrier IQ software, or any software of this nature on your device. I understand your concerns about this issue and protecting my privacy is definitely one of my top priorities as well.
We have not had any reports of any kind of software like this on any Windows Phone 7 device. This type of software has been used on Android devices, but since Microsoft developed this operating system I am sure they did not include any software of this kind.
Let me know if I have successfully answered your question, please click here to complete this.
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Sincerely,
Kathleen
HTC"
This is from March 2011, I haven't found any newer articles on the same subject. It seems no new news on this front since then?
Thanks, it seemed like a stretch anyway.
It's beyond time for some real privacy laws in this country, but I'm curious.. Can existing laws cover this? For example from what I understand, PCI compliance is required for storing credit card information. If CIQ is capturing this information along with all keystrokes, does the same law apply to them? And are they abiding by it?