privacy

Justin Sherman for Wired points out the farce that is anonymized data:
Data…

Many colleges use virtual proctoring software in an effort to reduce cheating on…

Life360 is a service that lets families keep track of where members are…

Patrick Sisson for The New York Times reports on the growing popularity of…

Companies collect and aggregate location data from millions of people’s phones. Then that…

Your computer connects to your router, which connects to your modem. Your printer…

We know what you did during lockdown is a short fiction film by…

For The New York Times, Kashmir Hill describes the implications of facial recognition…

An anonymous source supplied BuzzFeed News with usage data from Clearview AI, the…

For NYT Opinion, Charlie Warzel and Stuart A. Thompson returned to the topic…

Joseph Cox, reporting for Motherboard:
Some app developers Motherboard spoke to were not…

To combat cheating during online exams, many schools have utilized services that try…

Companies are tracking what you do online. You know this. But it can…

Adam Pearce and Ellen Jiang for Google’s PAIR, explain how granular data can…

Sara Morrison for Recode:
Then there’s Cuebiq, which collected location data through its…

Maddy Varner reporting for The Markup:
“All protesting and all marches are a…

To increase anonymity in the Census records, the bureau is testing an algorithm…

File another one under the sounds-good-on-paper-but-really-challenging-in-practice. Kashmir Hill, for The New York Times,…

A file leaked to The New York Times contained location traces of 12…

Alfred Ng for CNET:
Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, sent a…