Soo.. The Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (@DSB_no) has let the private company #Flexilarm develop an app for alerting the population when there's a civil defense siren. Another closed source app tracking the population..?

Thread. You can read more about the app in @tek_no's article tek.no/nyheter/nyhet/… . It's available on Play Store at play.google.com/store/apps/det… and App Store at apps.apple.com/no/app/flexila… .

1/8: Thread about #privacy.

Say you're at a public event and there's a photo booth where you can have your picture taken and printed + sent to you by e-mail. You don't get more info than that.

Do you (or should you) expect your pictures to be publicly available on the Internet? 2/8: I was at this O'Learys bar with a @PepsiMAX sponsored event where you could see the original @ChampionsLeague trophy. @fotobaren had a photo booth where you could get a free print photo in front of the trophy.
Someone™ failed to inform that anyone could find the pix online.

1/7: I hope I'm overlooking something here, but the Android app for @spond - the service for organizing sporting events etc. - seems to be uploading my complete phone book the moment I log in. 2/7: If you are running Android 5.1 on or lower you have on install time granted the app permission to read your contact list and access the Internet. The moment I log in hashed values of all the phone numbers and e-mail addresses in my phone book are uploaded to their server.