How to Ensure Your Company’s Mobile App Meets Privacy Regulations (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
After reading this article, you’ll: Understand the importance of privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA for mobile app development, and the potential consequences of non-compliance. Learn how to implement privacy-by-design principles, including data minimization, anonymization, encryption, and access controls throughout the app development lifecycle. Gain insights into creating transparent privacy policies, obtaining user consent, implementing […]
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 […]
Soon, Doctors Will Be Able to Track Your Health – Without Any Wearables
Dina Katabi is a renowned professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT in Boston. She’s built a box in her research lab that can live in your home; it tracks physiological signals while you move: breathing, gait, sleeping, heart rate, and much more. She hopes this box will become the non-invasive standard for measuring biological […]
Has China Taken It Too Far With Surveillance Tech?
Facial recognition has come a long way in the past few years. But there’s still progress to be made in terms of eliminating biases and other flaws. Regardless of this fact, China is already employing the technology to track its own citizens. This police-state type of surveillance has managed to cook up quite a bit […]
Apple Restricts Developers from Selling User Contact Data
Apple’s trying to avoid a data abuse probe, similar to what happened with Facebook’s recent data scandal. Facebook’s data abuse scandal happened because the company was too lax in what permissions and information it allowed developers to access. Consequently, when a Facebook app developer sold the data he’d mined from a quiz he’d built, Facebook […]
Do App Permissions Tell Us All We Need to Know?
Granting an app a half-dozen permissions it doesn’t seemingly need is a huge problem for users on Apple and Android devices. You might have noticed, for example, how Pokemon Go requested access to see and modify nearly all information in its players’ Google accounts. Why does it need to be able to edit our information? […]
Privacy: The Biggest Issue Facing Smart Cities Right Now
As existing cities convert older technology into newer, more innovative features for its citizens to enjoy, the sensitive topic of privacy is undoubtedly on most people’s minds. Smaller cities in the U.S., like Portland, Maine, and larger cities abroad in the Netherlands and India are already experiencing public backlash for monitoring the personal information of […]
Details of San Bernadino iPhone Hack Will Remain a Secret
Many iPhone app developers admire Apple’s hardline stance against encryption backdoors. It shows that the company is committed to protecting the privacy of consumers, even when such a decision might be unpopular. After the terrorist attack in San Bernandino in December 2015, the FBI wanted Apple’s help to access the iPhone of Syed Farook, one […]
Expert Sessions: Dogtown Co-Founder Rob Pope on IoT Security
Last month, Dogtown Media’s co-founder and CTO Rob Pope live-hacked his “botnet in a box” in the middle of the Santa Clara Convention Center. It was the climax of his Internet of Things World talk entitled “Internet of Scary Things: My Toaster Is (Not) Spying on Me.” Rob’s grounded analysis gave the IoT app developers […]
Dogtown’s Rob Pope Talks Botnets and Security at IoT World
Last week, the Santa Clara Convention Center was bustling with innovators, execs, and app developers for the Internet of Things World expo. It’s the world’s largest IoT conference, with over 11,000 professionals in the industry in attendance this year. It should be no surprise that the expo was packed out given that internet of things […]