privacy

Digital assistants offer convenience, but they also offer continuous surveillance, and it’s not…

The New York Times takes a closer look at the data that apps…

Mark Hansen for The Upshot describes the search for balance between individual privacy…

Sapna Maheshwari for The New York Times on Samba TV software running on…

Many surveillance apps cater to parents who want to keep tabs on their…

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…

Facebook logs data about you and how you use their application. I know…