Droid Incredible saves browser screenshots to internal memory, turns into a privacy nightmare
June must be the month when privacy issues leave their hibernation and return to trouble our fragile minds. First we had Flash going loco, then AT&T’s airwaves exploded with iPad users’ email addresses, iPhone 4 pre-orders started sending people to the wrong account, and now this. Boy Genius Report has come across a rather worrying “feature” of the HTC Sense bookmarking widget on the Incredible, which takes sporadic screenshots of your browsing sessions. That wouldn’t be so bothersome in itself, but try to remove said pictures, and you find where the problem lies. Ending the browsing session, deleting your history, and even a full reset to factory settings failed to eviscerate the indiscreet imagery. You have to manually discover their location and delete them by hand. Considering the high likelihood of Incredibles being sold and resold for years to come, this could turn the phone into a little cache of treasure for the proactive identity thief. And since it’s a Sense issue, it might be affecting other HTC handsets as well. Wunderbar.
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Posted: June 17th, 2010
at 7:22am by Vladislav Savov
Topics: DataProtection, DataSecurity, DroidIncredible, HtcSense, Personal, Privacy, PrivacyIssue, Security, browser, data protection, data security, droid incredible, htc, htc sense, incredible, privacy issue, private, screenshots, sense
HTC You ad campaign unveiled (update: video!)
HTC’s definitely been a major name amonst the gadget cognoscenti for a while now, but it looks like the company’s gearing up to go mainstream — this is the first print ad from the new HTC You campaign that’s launching today. Considering HTC’s recent slew of high-profile handset launches like the Hero, HD2, and Tilt2 and equally-promising upcoming products like the Dragon and Droid Eris, we’d say this marketing push hasn’t come a moment too soon. As for the ad itself, while it’s not exactly a knockdown punch, it certainly suggests that HTC sees Sense UI as its ace in the hole — we’ll see how that plays out as Android 2.0 phones like the Motorola Droid come out and make stock Android sexy again.
Update: And the commercials have gone live on YouTube as well — we gotta say, we’re pretty into them. Check ‘em after the break.
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HTC You ad campaign unveiled (update: video!) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
