http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Wed, 22 May 2013 17:00:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/psa-your-skype-messages-arent-as-private-as-you-think-they-are/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/psa-your-skype-messages-arent-as-private-as-you-think-they-are/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 08:30:12 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=167409 Most people think of Skype as a secure means of communication, with messages kindly delivered using end-to-end encryption. But a new report by Ars Technica suggests that’s far from the case — and Microsoft is often dipping into your communications. Having teamed up with security researcher Ashkan Soltani, Ars sent fresh web links across Skype, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/psa-your-skype-messages-arent-as-private-as-you-think-they-are/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/google-on-glass-youll-just-know-when-someones-spying-on-you/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/google-on-glass-youll-just-know-when-someones-spying-on-you/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 10:00:23 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=166680 Yesterday saw Google face a lot of questions over Google Glass privacy: not only was it grilled by developers at I/O, but the US Congress also sent it a list of eight questions it wants answered. It’s response? Don’t sweat it; you’ll know if someone is spying on you, silly. Speaking at an I/O session, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/google-on-glass-youll-just-know-when-someones-spying-on-you/feed/ 12 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/ee-user-data-offered-for-sale-was-anonymised/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/ee-user-data-offered-for-sale-was-anonymised/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 09:30:01 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=165573 Mobile network EE, which was at the centre of a little storm over claims a market research company was offering to sell details of its users to the police, has advised everyone to calm down a little. It was anonymised data that wouldn’t be able to identify or lead to the tracking of its users. [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/ee-user-data-offered-for-sale-was-anonymised/feed/ 10 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/theres-already-a-google-glass-app-that-lets-you-take-photos-with-a-wink/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/theres-already-a-google-glass-app-that-lets-you-take-photos-with-a-wink/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 13:00:54 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=162733 Last week we reported that the ability to control Google Glass with the wink of an eye was a very real possibility. Now, an enterprising chap by the name of Mike DiGiovanni has made that a reality. The developer has created an app called Winky, which lets you power up Glass from standby and take [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/theres-already-a-google-glass-app-that-lets-you-take-photos-with-a-wink/feed/ 6 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/google-glass-gets-a-whole-lot-creepier-when-you-root-it/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/google-glass-gets-a-whole-lot-creepier-when-you-root-it/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 17:00:20 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=162545 Google Glass has plenty of folks a little scared of being recorded in secret, but saying “OK Glass” and the recording light are kind of a dead giveaway. But a rooted pair of specs? Those could be a creeper’s dream. In a chat with ZDNet, Google Glass jailbreaker Saurik relayed some slightly concerning info about [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/google-glass-gets-a-whole-lot-creepier-when-you-root-it/feed/ 18 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/oh-god-robert-scoble-is-wearing-his-google-glasses-in-the-shower/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/oh-god-robert-scoble-is-wearing-his-google-glasses-in-the-shower/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:30:58 +0000 Sam Biddle http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=161927 And more importantly, publicly sharing photos of himself doing it, soaking and unclothed. The future is now. After the human GeoCities site and Rackspace employee wrote this frothing “review” of Glass, he apparently didn’t think we believed him on several points. “I will never live a day of my life from now on without it,” [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/oh-god-robert-scoble-is-wearing-his-google-glasses-in-the-shower/feed/ 18 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/nick-clegg-flexes-miniature-muscle-to-kick-out-snoopers-charter/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/nick-clegg-flexes-miniature-muscle-to-kick-out-snoopers-charter/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:45:56 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=160913 The usually tame Mr Clegg has gone red-faced with fury over the coalition’s plan to introduce the so-called Snooper’s Charter, using a radio interview to stress that he won’t let the Data Communications Bill pass as long as he has a stapler with his name on it inside the government offices. Speaking on his usual weekly [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/nick-clegg-flexes-miniature-muscle-to-kick-out-snoopers-charter/feed/ 15 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/angsty-teen-paris-brown-quits-police-role-over-shady-twitter-past/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/angsty-teen-paris-brown-quits-police-role-over-shady-twitter-past/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:30:55 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=156556 The furore over past comments made by high-profile youth police and crime commissioner Paris Brown has claimed her bouffant scalp, with the 17-year-old quitting her advisory job after her slightly dodgy youthful tweets triggered a modern-day outrage. Brown hit the news after tweets made back when she was 14 were dug up by people who enjoy [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/angsty-teen-paris-brown-quits-police-role-over-shady-twitter-past/feed/ 43 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/smartphones-have-ruined-our-ability-to-make-wasted-fools-of-ourselves/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/smartphones-have-ruined-our-ability-to-make-wasted-fools-of-ourselves/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:30:53 +0000 Sam Biddle http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=153657 The modern smartphone, for all its utility as a way of capturing crimes in process, waddling babies, and public disasters, has one chilling effect on society: it’s now dangerous to get insanely fucked up in public. And that’s a damn shame. Take this gentlelady at Miami’s ULTRA music festival, a carnival of tacky bass, gaudy [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/smartphones-have-ruined-our-ability-to-make-wasted-fools-of-ourselves/feed/ 29 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/surprise-a-group-called-stop-the-cyborgs-doesnt-like-google-glass/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/surprise-a-group-called-stop-the-cyborgs-doesnt-like-google-glass/#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:45:42 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=153382 Hot on the heels of the publicity-whoring cafe in Seattle that banned Google Glass, the UK now has its own group of privacy zealots who want to heavily regulate Google Glass before it’s even on sale. There’s a manifesto and everything. Cute. The website starts out promisingly, with a nicely Luddite strapline: “Fighting the algorithmic [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/surprise-a-group-called-stop-the-cyborgs-doesnt-like-google-glass/feed/ 31 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/google-has-to-teach-people-how-to-use-passwords-as-part-of-its-settlement/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/google-has-to-teach-people-how-to-use-passwords-as-part-of-its-settlement/#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:00:59 +0000 Ashley Feinberg http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=150154 Remember a few years ago when Google got itself in that whole little Street-View-cars-collecting-personal-Wi-Fi-network-data debacle? Well, it looks like the case is finally being settled, and it’s not just the people who had their privacy stripped before their very eyes that are benefitting — everyone gets a piece of the pie! That’s because in addition [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/google-has-to-teach-people-how-to-use-passwords-as-part-of-its-settlement/feed/ 10 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/study-your-facebook-likes-alone-reveal-gender-ethnicity-religion-and-more/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/study-your-facebook-likes-alone-reveal-gender-ethnicity-religion-and-more/#comments Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:30:44 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=149531 Every little piece of information you give away online can reveal something about you — but it seems your Facebook likes could reveal rather more than you bargained for. New research by the University of Cambridge and Microsoft Research has been analysing Facebook Likes to see how much information they really contain. After quietly — and, apparently, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/study-your-facebook-likes-alone-reveal-gender-ethnicity-religion-and-more/feed/ 16 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/how-to-opt-out-of-facebooks-new-targeted-ads/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/how-to-opt-out-of-facebooks-new-targeted-ads/#comments Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:00:20 +0000 Gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=149055 Facebook has announced that it’s teaming up with four of the world’s largest corporate data brokers to “enhance” the ad experience for users. Datalogix, Epsilon, Acxiom, and BlueKai obtain information gathered about users through online means (such as through cookies when users surf the web) as well as through offline means (such as through loyalty [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/how-to-opt-out-of-facebooks-new-targeted-ads/feed/ 9 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/meet-the-symbiote-the-ironclad-adaptable-future-of-antivirus-protection/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/meet-the-symbiote-the-ironclad-adaptable-future-of-antivirus-protection/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:00:20 +0000 Lily Newman http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=146152 Ang Cui has a lot of power. With enough time he can take control of pretty much any networked device. He could watch you through your iSight or track the Netflix on your smart TV. But he has bigger fish to fry, so your Catfish marathons are safe for now. From him, at least. A [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/meet-the-symbiote-the-ironclad-adaptable-future-of-antivirus-protection/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/kim-dotcom-super-paranoid-mega-email-is-on-the-way/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/kim-dotcom-super-paranoid-mega-email-is-on-the-way/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:45:01 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=146220 Are you a tiny bit paranoid that people are reading your email? You know, those that aren’t meant to be reading your email. I have good news for you. Kim Dotcom’s bringing Mega-style email your way — fully encrypted, government-snooping proof email. Talking to the Guardian, Dotcom said: “We’re going to extend this to secure [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/kim-dotcom-super-paranoid-mega-email-is-on-the-way/feed/ 4 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/a-facebook-privacy-flaw-gave-a-hacker-access-to-every-single-account/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/a-facebook-privacy-flaw-gave-a-hacker-access-to-every-single-account/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:30:06 +0000 Ashley Feinberg http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=145937 You probably don’t know Nir Goldshlager, but up until recently, he sure could have know you. That’s because Nir discovered a major privacy flaw in Facebook’s OAuth, the system developers use to access all sorts of information every time you hit that little “allow” button. Nir gained access to virtually anyone’s entire Facebook account. As [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/a-facebook-privacy-flaw-gave-a-hacker-access-to-every-single-account/feed/ 1 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/how-to-lock-down-your-facebook-privacy-before-graph-search-strikes/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/how-to-lock-down-your-facebook-privacy-before-graph-search-strikes/#comments Sun, 24 Feb 2013 13:00:28 +0000 David Nield http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=145520 Graph Search is Facebook’s bold new way of browsing the social network, letting you call up photos of your family in Coventry, restaurants your friends like in London, or any public updates from Gizmodo employees who also like hot air ballooning. It’s currently only available to a limited number of users, but it’s coming to [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/how-to-lock-down-your-facebook-privacy-before-graph-search-strikes/feed/ 4 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/jawbone-accounts-compromised/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/jawbone-accounts-compromised/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:30:53 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=142888 If you use a Jambox, now might be a real good time to change your MyTalk password: Jawbone’s servers have been hacked, and a swathe of users have had their details swiped. Jawbone’s MyTalk service lets users update and personalise speakers and headsets. Apparently hackers stole names, email addresses, and encrypted passwords from the company’s servers. The [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/jawbone-accounts-compromised/feed/ 0 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/report-facebook-creating-app-to-track-you-and-your-friends/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/report-facebook-creating-app-to-track-you-and-your-friends/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:15:34 +0000 Sam Biddle http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=140675 Here’s something that sounds incredibly scary but in reality is probably just slightly scary and overblown: Bloomberg says Facebook is working on a new app that will follow you around via smartphone, reporting your moves to friends. Creepy? Convenient? Both? Neither? From the “two people with knowledge of the matter” who spoke to Bloomberg, the rumoured app [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/report-facebook-creating-app-to-track-you-and-your-friends/feed/ 9 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/did-path-screw-up-and-steal-your-data-again/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/did-path-screw-up-and-steal-your-data-again/#comments Sat, 02 Feb 2013 09:30:25 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=140232 Yikes. Path, which got in trouble around this time last year for stealing your entire address book without your permission, might have another privacy issue on its hands. The app will automatically geotag your photos even when you’ve completely disabled Location Services for the Path app. It’s basically doing something you explicitly told it not [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/did-path-screw-up-and-steal-your-data-again/feed/ 1