Sunday, December 22

Tag: privacy breach

Google Will Track Your Location Even When You Turn It Off!
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Google Will Track Your Location Even When You Turn It Off!

We realize that sometimes Android phones track our location to help us book an Uber or provide a better route on maps. But when we don't require GPS we turn location sharing off and think now we're off the grid! Well! That's where you're wrong! Google recently admitted that it is tracking its users even when they turn "location services" off. Or hey! even when they are not using any SIM Card. Can you believe that? Well, that's how they do it. How do they do it! Since the beginning of 2017, Android phones are collecting the addresses of nearby cellular towers, even when we disable the location services. The data hence collected, is sent back to the Google in an encrypted form. With this data, Google has access to all their users' location movements, place where they've been at, w...
Qualcomm Sues Apple For Breach of Software License Contract
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Qualcomm Sues Apple For Breach of Software License Contract

Qualcomm Inc has sued Apple Inc, alleging that it violated a software license contract to benefit rival chipmaker Intel Corp for making broadband modems, the latest salvo in the longstanding dispute between Qualcomm and Apple. Qualcomm said in a lawsuit filed in California state court in San Diego on Wednesday that Apple used its commercial leverage to demand unprecedented access to the chipmaker’s highly confidential software, including source code. Apple declined to comment on the suit. The company started using Intel’s broadband modem chips in the iPhone 7. In its complaint, Qualcomm alleged that Apple was required under its contract to ensure that Apple engineers working with Qualcomm did not communicate details about Qualcomm chips to Apple engineers working on competing chip...