privacy

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…

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…

Sensible Data by Martin Hertig is an installation that asks what personal data…

Just because there’s no content that comes with the metadata doesn’t make the latter useless.

You typically hear about data breaches in terms of number of records that…

Technology continues to advance quickly, but the social questions are lagging a bit.…

The Citizen Ex browser extension guesses where you’re geographically located on the web.…