The Presidential Inauguration Committee has put out an official Android and IOS app. But if you read the fine print, it could be sharing your personal information with political campaigns. It’s an example of how our private information is constantly being shared online. But there are systems to take control, like MyPermissions. Also: Nokia has a new product, a smartphone case you can print out. All you need is access to a 3D printer.

Yelp is partnering with cities around the country to put public data in their restaurant listings: health department ratings. The program is currently rolling out in San Francisco and in a few weeks will begin in New York, though some restaurant owners are nervous at the prospect. Realtors are launching their own “tech accelerator.” And, new research suggests that spending time on Facebook may boost your self-esteem at the cost of your real world self-control.

The suicide of Internet activist Aaron Swartz is having a legal backlash. Rep. Zoe Lofgren has proposed “Aaron’s Law” to scale back what critics call an overly broad law, that allowed prosecutors to threaten Swartz with decades of jail time. But will “Aaron’s Law”  go far enough? Ebay’s PayPal system is widely used for online payments. In a new partnership with NCR, the cash register and automated teller company, PayPal is taking another step toward making payments offline. Soon they may be enabling you to pay for gas using your Smartphone. 

Facebook’s big new effort is a search function that works only within the social media. Could “graph search” actually be a game changer? Perhaps — and the idea that it could may be the reason Yelp’s stock took a dive yesterday. Meanwhile online security experts have discovered a form of malware that’s been operating for five years. Its name? Red October. 

Java is all over the place, and now Homeland Security wants us to disable it. But how do we do that? We talk to Chester Wisniewski of Sophos. Meanwhile the arguments continue over famous Internet innovator Aaron Swartz’s legacy. Swartz killed himself in the face of charges that he hacked a data center at MIT. Last, an amazing technology that could be the next big thing in tablets and smartphones: The magical appearing buttons made by Tactus.

Is this a regular flu season or one for the record books? It depends a bit on whether your metric is the official numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or Google. One thing’s for sure, a lot more people are Googling the flu, but it’s still unclear whether that means a lot more people are getting it. In China, a lot more people are getting high speed internet into their homes. Why? The country’s government is requiring that each new home close to the necessary infrastructure must get a fiber optic cable hookup. But while this makes U.S. standards look pitiful by comparison, it’s important to remember that better bandwitdth doesn’t always mean better internet — especially in a country known for censorship. 

International CES has wrapped, but there are still stories to tell. For instance how the startup Veveo’s schedule got even more jam packed with clients for its predictive software at the annual event, and how bad chip maker Qualcomm’s keynote presentation really was in the final judgment. Also, MIT has invented a new process of bending light on a computer chip, which means we’re a step closer to hologram televisions, biomedical imaging, and predictive or autonomous driving. 

One company you wouldn’t necessarily expect to be at a giant conference about the technology of the future: Polaroid. But the company has been around for 75 years, says CEO Scott Hardy, and it plans to be just as relevant now as it was when it was making goggles for World War II fighter pilots. How? Fotobars, for one. But the company also just released a new iM1836 camera that runs Android Jelly Bean and can upload the shots you take with the help of WiFi. Meanwhile Engadget’s senior reviews editor Dana Wollman says that despite all the 3D hype of recent years, television manufacturers at International CES this year are touting not 3D, but 4K TVs. Also, when it comes to weather mapping, what’s Australian for “hot”? The color purple. Now that temperatures got so sweltering, meteorologists had to add a new shade of heat. 

Google just created the biggest Free Wi-Fi network in Manhattan, blanketing the Chelsea neighborhood with outdoor access for two years. The company says it’s just being neighborly — but will other internet service providers be mad? Meanwhile, International CES is usually known for televisions and smaller gadgets, but one of the big themes this year at the big event in Las Vegas is the self-driving cars of the future…and the present tech that looks towards autonomous vehicles.