Month: February 2012

I’ve always known that technology brings about both good and bed unintended consequences, but here’s one I never considered. Dr. Robert K. Sigal, a Washington DC-area board-certified plastic surgeon claims that Facetime encouages people to […]

This post appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on February 27, 2012 by Larry Magid I might be overly optimistic, but I hope this will be remembered as the month digital privacy rights finally […]

Some people are worried that on March 1st, Google will begin consolidating information across its many products. That means that any information you enter in one product, say YouTube, can be combined with information from other Google […]

The recent revelations that some iPhone and Android apps are uploading and storing users’ phone address books without permission is very troubling. It not only violates the privacy of the person using the phone but, […]

by Larry Magid It’s too early to know if either of these will make a difference, but back-to-back announcements from the California Attorney General and the White House give me some hope that we may […]

ABC News’ Nightline got to film inside a Foxconn factory in Shenzen, China where Apple’s iPads, iPhones and iPods are made. After many requests by many media companies, the TV network was finally allowed in. […]

I rarely use content from others on this site but I was so impressed by Alexi Kapterev’s 2007 Slideshare presentation “Death by PowerPoint” that I had to share it. I’m not ripping him off, like […]

This post is adapted and expanded from Larry’s San Jose Mercury News from February 20, 2012 Scroll to bottom for short slide show with app privacy tips by Larry Magid The recent revelations that some iPhone […]

Declan McCullagh over at CNET is reporting that Stanford University researchers have figured out a way to defeat NuCaptcha’s “are you a human” challenge, 90% of the time. NuCaptcha was launched in 2010 as an […]

Apple has released a developer preview of the upcoming “Mountain Lion” version of its Mac OS X operating system. The new version, which will be available to customers this summer, borrows some features and apps from its […]