Mobile Health Apps: Is Your PII Private?
In early 2020, when COVID-19 cases were on the rise in the US, we witnessed a massive shift in how we live our daily lives. With hopes to limit the transition of COVID-19, many densely populated cities such as New York City, Los Angles, and others led the front in leaving the office to work […]
Are We Witnessing the Fall of Facebook?
Fake news, data privacy issues, mental health concerns… Facebook has seen its fair share of controversies and unfavorable headlines in recent months. But it hasn’t faced anything compared to what it’s up against now. Will the latest scandal about stolen personal information be the last straw for the behemoth social network? Keep Your Friends Close […]
5 Problems That Drive User Churn (and What to Do About Them)
Analytics firm Localytics recently released some numbers that chilled mobile app developers to the bone: 63% of mobile users will use an app 10 times or less before scrapping it. Perhaps even more alarming is the fact that 23% of users launch an app just once before deleting it. Users trust their gut when it […]
Senate Dismantles Obama-Era Internet Privacy Protections
For app developers concerned with privacy, yesterday was a dark day. Senate Republicans passed a bill eliminating privacy regulations imposed on broadband providers by the FCC during the final months of the Obama presidency. Those protections would have required ISPs to get consent from the consumer before selling off personal information to a third party. […]
How a French Startup Is Re-making Privacy-first Ai Tech
When techies think of artificial intelligence, they usually think of big venture capital projects in the US and app developers in London. But there’s another player on the AI field, and it’s actually bigger than you might think. There are about 180 AI startups in France, mostly in Paris, and a thriving scene that’s unfortunately […]
NSA Spying Through Popular Mobile Apps Like “Angry Birds”
According to a report co-authored by The New York Times and the U.K. newspaper The Guardian, the National Security Agency and its British equivalent are using game apps like Angry Birds to collect users’ personal information. Details of the program, obtained from classified British intelligence files, indicate that Angry Birds and other “leaky apps” are […]