Privacy How Much Is Your Privacy Really Worth?medium.com - Will Oremus For big tech platforms, this was the year when violating users’ privacy got expensive. But did it get expensive enough? In July, Facebook agreed to …
Surveillance Researchers: AI surveillance is expanding worldwideAssociated Press - By MATT O'BRIEN, AP Technology WriterA growing number of countries are following China's lead in deploying artificial intelligence to track citizens, according to a research group's report published Tuesday. The Carnegie Endowment for International
Home Security Technology responds to travelers’ concerns about safety, securityThe Washington Post - By Christopher ElliottBefore John Meyer travels anywhere, he slips a small security device that looks like a two-way radio into his luggage. Recent reports of vacation rental owners spying on guests persuaded him to pay $199
Technology Apple neutered ad blockers in Safari, but unlike Chrome, users didn't say a thingZDNet - Catalin Cimpanu On the other hand, everyone was busy blasting Google for a similar plan in Chrome. There's been much said about Google's supposed plans to limit the …
Icon version of the Flipboard logoGoogle Google's Ad Business Undergoes Massive Reorganizationadexchanger.com - Sarah Sluis Google’s advertising chief Prabhakar Raghavan is reorganizing Google’s ads business – and adding new heads of measurement and privacy, according to …
Privacy Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law. Good.TechCrunch - Zack WhittakerIn a little over three months, California will see the widest-sweeping state-wide changes to its privacy law in years. California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) kicks in on January 1 and rolls out sweeping
Google AdWords Google rolls out massive shakeup to ad bizAd Age - George P. Slefo. Google’s top ad chief is shaking up the company’s organizational structure, which will impact everything from consumer privacy, ad fraud, …
Amazon Amazon Cracks Down on Third-Party Apps Over Privacy ViolationsWIRED - Condé Nast The was just one problem: Amazon’s Data Protection Policy only allows developers to use customer information for tax and shipping purposes, not for …
Apps Facebook Suspends Tens of Thousands of Apps During Privacy InvestigationVariety - Janko Roettgers Facebook has suspended tens of thousands of apps ever since it began investigating potential privacy abuses, the company said Friday. The apps in …
Apps VPN apps with 500M+ installs caught serving disruptive ads to Android usersTNW - Ravie LakshmananGoogle Play Store has a malware problem. And it doesn’t seem to go away despite the company’s best efforts to rein in sketchy apps. In a yet another instance of Android adware, New Zealand-based independent
Apps Two Android adware apps with 1.5 million downloads removed from Google Play StoreZDNet - Danny Palmer Researchers detail two malicious adware applications - one of which has been in the official Android store for two years. Two malicious Android apps …
Icon version of the Flipboard logo US Visa forms DS-160, 260 has Social Media Questions now – Samplesredbus2us.com - Kumar Trump Administration as part of their goal to increase overall screening and vetting process for US visa applications, published regulation last year …
Cybersecurity Microsoft, Hewlett Foundation preparing to launch nonprofit that calls out cyberattacks - CyberScoopcyberscoop.com - Shannon Vavra Microsoft and the Hewlett Foundation are preparing to launch a nonprofit organization dedicated to exposing the details of harmful cyberattacks and …
Symantec Advanced hackers are infecting IT providers in hopes of hitting their customersArs Technica - Dan Goodin Previously undocumented Tortoiseshell is skilled but by no means perfect. A previously undocumented attack group with advanced hacking skills has …
Yahoo Here’s how to claim your $100 from Yahoo’s massive data breach settlementDigital Trends - Mathew Katz Yahoo is close to reaching a $117.5 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit over a series of data breaches that affected users between 2012 and …
Addiction The Danger of Thinking We’re All ‘Addicted’ to TechWIRED - Condé Nast Does repeating a falsehood make it true? It seems so, at least when it comes to the myth that technology is addicting us all. While a reassessment of …
Facebook The tech backlash is real, and it’s acceleratingThe Verge - Casey NewtonIs there a backlash toward the technology industry in the culture? I tend to think so, having written about its various twists and turns most weekdays for the past couple years now. But sometimes an obsession
Opinion There Is No Tech BacklashThe New York TimesIt’s fun, and increasingly fashionable, to complain about technology. Our own devices distract us, others’ devices spy on us, social media companies poison public discourse, new wired objects violate privacy,
Technology On Roku and Amazon Fire TV, Channels Are Watching YouWIRED - Condé Nast By this point hopefully you're at least generally aware that the digital ad ecosystem tracks you across the web, building a composite profile to more …
Chatbots Facebook is betting the next big interface is conversationFast Company - Mark SullivanBots still can’t converse like humans. But Facebook’s AI researchers are making major inroads—with implications for the company’s messaging apps and beyond. This article is part of Fast Company’s editorial
Algorithms Let’s Stop Treating Algorithms Like They’re All Created Equalmit.edu - By: Martin Erwig A recent poll found that most Americans think algorithms are unfair. Unfortunately, the poll was biased. All around us, algorithms are invisibly at …
Technology How human curation came back to clean up AI’s messesFast Company - Jared NewmanAfter years of investment in algorithmic recommendations, major tech companies are rediscovering the human touch. This article is part of Fast Company’s editorial series The New Rules of AI. More than
Tech Industry Amazon Falls After Report That the Company Prioritized Profit in Its Search ListingsBloomberg - Matt Day Amazon.com Inc. shares fell following a report that the e-commerce giant adjusted its product search results to emphasize items that are more …
Apps ★ Malice or Incompetence: On the Rankings of Apple’s Own Apps in App Store Resultsdaringfireball.net - John Gruber Jack Nicas and Keith Collins, reporting for The New York Times on Monday (the day before Apple’s event):Presented with the results of the analysis, …
World Economic Forum How privacy tech is redefining the data economyweforum.org - CV Madhukar As the tech reckoning continues, governments, journalists and citizens alike are sounding the alarm on the many ways technology – and our personal …
Technology Policy New surveillance tech means you'll never be anonymous againWired UK - Elise Thomas The fight over the future of facial recognition is heating up. But it is just the beginning, as even more intrusive methods of surveillance are being …
Apple Congress just asked big tech companies for private emails about their biggest controversiesThe Verge - Adi RobertsonThe House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee has sent four request for information letters to Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet, and Apple, asking for closely held details on some of the most powerful companies
The Brain A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been DebunkedThe Atlantic - Bahar GholipourFor decades, a landmark brain study fed speculation about whether we control our own actions. It seems to have made a classic mistake. The death of free will began with thousands of finger taps. In 1964,
Surveillance How we change our behavior when we know we're being watchedAxios - Alison Snyder The point of surveillance is to track and influence people's behavior — in the political sphere, at school, in the subway or in the workplace. Just …
