This week Google's Eric Schmidt suggested we may need to invent new identities to escape embarrassing online pasts while Facebook launched a tool to share users' locations. So does technology pose a threat to private life? Are you in a relationship? What are your political views? And where did you go for breakfast this morning? What would once have been details of our lives known only by those ...

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 18 August 2010 at 03:20:00 Google unlikely to use Android kill switch Security firms have issued a warning about an Android application that installs a commercial spying application on handsets. The Tap Snake game looks like a clone of the 1970s game Snake , but once installed begins to run a piece of Russian surveillance software called GPS ...

Like a Tapsnake in the grass Researchers from anti-virus provider Symantec have outted a gaming application in Google's Android Market that tracks users' whereabouts so they can be secretly monitored in real-time.

The transcript of the phone call earlier this week with Google's chief reveals the real signals he's sending out: Android wants to be the Windows of mobile phones Android is getting too big to ignore. Photo by mathrock on Flickr. Some rights reserved Below is a transcript (taken with shorthand, contemporaneously) of a conference call with Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google, on 23 June ...

Sony Ericsson is looking to its customers to help determine which version of Google's Android mobile operating system best suits the company's new Xperia X8 handset.