Contractors working for Microsoft are listening to personal conversations of Skype users conducted through the app’s translation service, according to a cache of internal documents, screenshots, and audio recordings obtained by Motherboard. Although Skype’s website says that the company may analyze audio of phone calls that a user wants to translate in order to improve […]
NSA Quietly Deletes Years of Illegally Collected Wiretap Data…
The National Security Agency (NSA) is scrubbing several years worth of call records swept up in foreign intelligence surveillance wiretaps that it was never authorized to collect – claiming that “technical irregularities” caused the oversight, according to the agency. The agency issued a statement Thursday notifying the public that in May it began to delete […]
Uber, Tinder, Snapchat, Twitter Other Top Apps Include Trackers That Secretly Watch Everything Users Do…
Popular smartphone apps contain hidden trackers that can secretly monitor everything you do, researchers have found. These apps include Uber, Tinder, Skype, Twitter, Spotify and Snapchat, though it’s likely that this is the case for many, many more programs.People “should be alarmed by the data” say the researchers, from Yale University’s Privacy Lab and app […]