privacy

CBS News picked up four used photocopiers and looked at the hard drives.…

Woo. Woo. Alex Hern reporting for The Guardian:
In at least one previous…

Facebook and Google (among other companies) know a lot about you through the…

From 2010, Steve Jobs on data privacy:…

False positives. Over-policing. Bias. This isn’t stuff you just mess around with.

Smart home. Smart city. They have a positive ring to it. But we assume everyone uses it only for good things.

Every time we book a flight, a Passenger Name Record is generated and…

Last year, fitness tracking app Strava released a high detail map of public…

Judith Duportail, writing for the Guardian, requested her personal data from dating service…

This is fine. Totally normal. Eric Newcomer reporting for Bloomberg:
Hackers stole the…

Keith Collins reporting for Quartz:
Since the beginning of 2017, Android phones have…

Newer Roomba vacuums form a map of your house to more efficiently clean…

As you probably know, Twitter (and all social media) collects data about you…

We live in a time when personal data leaves digital traces of what…

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Maciej Ceglowski, the creator of bookmarking site Pinboard, spoke at the Library of…

The general public kind of knows about data privacy issues. But not really.…

Peter Aldhous and Charles Seife dug into flight path data, specifically looking for…

Metadata can tell you a lot, and most of us agree that it’s…

Data researcher and artist Mimi Onuoha looked at the personal location and messaging…