Privacy and personal data: how companies and governments collect and protect it, from Facebook password failures to surveillance and privacy bills.
Your TV may be fingerprinting what you watch for advertisers. Here is what automatic content recognition is, why it is in the news, and where to switch it…
Flock Safety is cutting about 270 jobs after a buyout program while cities cancel its license-plate camera contracts. What Reuters reported, what critics say and how Flock replies.
ChatGPT ads can be targeted from your current conversation and from advertiser email and phone lists. Here's what OpenAI says, what's still unclear, and which settings you can…
In its monthly's blog post, Facebook revealed that millions of Instagram passwords were stored in a readable format. Through an internal investigation, Facebook determined that passwords stored were…
The Justice Department's Inspector General released a stunning report with details into DEA's bulk surveillance practices. According to the report, the DEA "failed to conduct a comprehensive legal…
In a statement, Nokia phone brand owner HMD Global said that it "mistakenly included" the device activation software for Chinese phones in a "single batch" of Nokia 7…
You would think Facebook has your account security as one of its main priorities, right? Well, you might want to reconsider that because Facebook's "days since last security…
Last March, we learned that Facebook allowed Cambridge Analytica to access personal information of 87 million users, the social media giant has faced a lot of pushback into…
While we have all eyes on the government shutdown situation, Congress has passed a bill that will make it easier for the public to gain access to publicly-available…
Facebook really doesn't want you to permanently delete you account with them. The company is now going to give you some extra time, if you have a change…
Kicking things off in the F8 conference, Facebook is answering everyone's question: What is the platform doing to address concerns of user data? The answer to this appears…
In some new boastful claims by the Chinese authorities, anti-corruption watchdog in Hefei claims that a division in a nearby city managed to obtain a "series of deleted…
Introduced by Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and John Kennedy (R-LA), a new Senate bill will be aiming at protecting consumers' online data privacy. The plans for such a…
Soon, Europe's GDPR privacy standards will launch. Several companies have already announced changes that will affect European users, and you can add WhatsApp to that list. Sky News…
Before Cambridge Analytica came on the radar after improperly obtaining data of millions of Facebook users, the firm was reportedly working on a digital currency. Interestingly, the cryptocurrency…
