As you may have heard, FEMA and the FCC are conducting a nationwide test of the Public Alerts and Warning System today. As such, your iPhone will sound off with an emergency alert at around 2:20 p.m. ET/11:20 a.m. PT. FEMA is required to conduct these national tests of the Public Alert and Warning System […]
You’re not going to love this. Twitter on Monday disclosed a bug that in certain conditions resulted in an account’s location data being shared with a Twitter partner, even if the user had not opted in to sharing that data. The bug only affected a portion of Twitter’s iOS user base, the company says, and they’ve […]
This isn’t the best news. According to Forbes, wireless carriers Verizon and AT&T have ceded that they’re tagging their customers with unique codes that are visible to third parties, making smartphone users far easier to track on the Web than they’ve ever been before, targeted advertising being that much easier to create as a result […]