Tag: mobile app
Pinterest CEO and a team of leading scientists launch a self-reporting COVID-19 tracking app
There have been a few scattered efforts to leverage crowd-sourced self-reporting of symptoms as a way to potentially predict and chart the progress of COVID-19 across the U.S., and around the world. A new effort looks like the most comprehensive, well-organized and credibly backed yet — and it has been…
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How to identify and remove KidsGuard ‘stalkerware’ from your phone
We reported today on KidsGuard, a powerful mobile spyware. Not only is the app secretly installed on thousands of Android phones without the owners’ consent, it also left a server open and unprotected, exposing the data it siphoned off from victims’ infected devices to the internet. This consumer-grade spyware also…
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A ‘stalkerware’ app leaked phone data from thousands of victims
A spyware app designed to “monitor everything” on a victim’s phone has been secretly installed on thousands of phones. The app, KidsGuard, claims it can “access all the information” on a target device, including its real-time location, text messages, browser history, access to its photos, videos and app activities, and…
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Getting tech right in Iowa and elsewhere requires insight into data, human behavior
Hollie Russon Gilman Contributor More posts by this contributor What can cities learn from Amazon HQ? Millennials could be the answer to government malaise Tara Dawson McGuinness Contributor Tara Dawson McGuinness, a former senior advisor to President Obama, is a Senior Fellow at New America and teaches public policy in…
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Iowa’s caucus app was a disaster waiting to happen
A smartphone app designed to help announce the results of the Iowa caucus ended up crapping out and causing a massive delay by almost an entire day. The Iowa caucus traditionally uses gatherings of people in counties across the state to determine which candidates they want to back for the…
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An app tasked with reporting the results of the Iowa caucus has crashed
A smartphone app tasked with reporting the results of the Iowa caucus has crashed, delaying the result of the first major count in nominating a Democratic candidate to run for the U.S. presidency. The result of the Iowa caucus was due to be transmitted by smartphone apps from delegates across…
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