iPhone App Developer Caught Snooping on Phone Numbers

Vampires Live, Zombies Live and Rockstars Live developer Storm8 has been caught storing users’ cell phone numbers on their servers.  This is a pretty troubling development and food for thought for iPhone owners using third party apps. One lawsuit from a user is already underway. The company is defending itself by saying the situation was caused by a "bug" in its software. Let's hope publicity on this situation will make sure it never happens again.  We're still waiting to hear Apple's public s...

Google Dashboard Allows Users to See/Edit The Data Google Stores About You

Google announced a new tool today that will allow users with Google accounts to see all the various data the company keeps about them and to edit or erase some (not all) of that data. According to Google, you'll soon find a link to Google Dashboard in the "personal settings" of the "my account" page. The dashboard will contain: "some of the information associated with the Google services you use: your name, your email address, the number of contacts, the number of conversations in your Gmail ...