ITProPortal reports that Facebook’s Internet.org initiative, aimed at bringing free basic Internet services to users in developing countries, is being described by critics as a “privacy nightmare” because users will be tracked on partner sites, the traffic will be unencrypted and data will be shared with third parties. Meanwhile, Web Security reports on privacy concerns related to Microsoft’s new app that guesses people’s ages and genders via an uploaded photograph. The app, which has had 210,000 images uploaded, now has users concerned about possible privacy breaches and Microsoft’s ability to use images across its services per its terms. Microsoft engineers have said the company neither stores nor uses the photos.
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