Note: This was originally posted on the Center for Democracy & Technology blog. From the iPhone’s very first days, legions of avid smartphone users have awaited the day when Apple would announce support for “multitasking” – the ability to keep multiple iPhone applications running at once. In yesterday’s preview of the latest iPhone operating system, [...]
Categories: Consumer Privacy, Location Privacy
Note: This was originally posted on the Center for Democracy & Technology blog. In advance of Facebook’s annual developer conference next month, reports have begun to materialize about a seminal new feature that the social networking service may roll out: location sharing. Although there’s no official word from the company yet, the speculation is that [...]
Categories: Consumer Privacy, Location Privacy
Note: This blog post was originally published on the Center for Democracy & Technology blog. Two weeks ago, upwards of 1100 dedicated souls gathered in Hiroshima, Japan for the 76th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Although I’ve been regularly attending these meetings for some time now, whenever this group gathers I’m always surprised [...]
Categories: Standards
Note: This blog post was originally published on the Center for Democracy & Technology blog. Last week I had the pleasure of attending the 75th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), one of the leading international technical standards bodies for the Internet. For many years, CDT has sought to engage in technical standards [...]
Categories: Standards
Note: This was originally posted on the Center for Democracy & Technology blog. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about one of the upgrades in the iPhone 3.0 software update that allows the Safari browser on iPhone to be location-enabled. Firefox had previously implented something similar in a beta version of the browser, and [...]
Categories: Consumer Privacy, Location Privacy
Note: This post originally appeared on the Center for Democracy & Technology blog. There's been a lot of buzz over the last few days about the new iPhone 3.0 software that was released this week. You might have seen reviews of a new service offered as part of the update called Find my iPhone, which [...]
Categories: Consumer Privacy, Location Privacy