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5 Privacy Issues You Probably Didn't Know About

Posted on the 11 May 2013 by Hadi20 @hadi_frht
  1. Apple's IPhone is secretly tracking your movements and storing your data, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Learn more..
  2. Facebook's app automatically tries to activate your GPS whenever it is launched. There's no setting or an option to disable this.
  3. Gmail reads your email. Google never said that it  reads our mail, however, Google, it publicly acknowledges that it "processes personal information" via cookies and on its servers, so it can provide "our products and services to users," as well as to keep its service running well. Learn more..
  4. Facebook Home: Facebook latest "innovation", is trying to be the gateway to your virtual world. It's a layer between the OS and the apps, it is the gateway to any data exchange. Which means, that Facebook will possess every bit of data passing through. The problem is that Facebook is going to use all this data not to improve our lives but to target better marketing and advertising messages at us.
  5. Over than 24% of online time is spent on social networks. And a major social network site, according to Neilsen, will experience one major breach, which will expose a terrific amount of personal data.



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