There’s no doubt that mobile phones have made travelling abroad easier. From apps that store boarding passes to mobile banking and online restaurant reservations, they can simplify holiday administration and make it easier to bypass tricky language barriers. But technological advances have also helped thieves and cybercriminals – and using a phone on holiday can … Read more
We all see them: those annoying pop-up windows that appear on our screens asking us to consent to websites’ privacy and digital cookie policies. You probably don’t read them, but frantically rush the messages away by clicking “Yes, I agree” without thinking. It seems that actually dealing with the jargon is so rare that free … Read more
The scale at which some fitness apps collect significant amounts of data about users has been revealed by new analytics – including apps that may share the information with so-called ‘data harvesters’. The data collected includes individuals’ precise locations and financial information about the photos they took. Of the ten apps analyzed, seven collected photos … Read more