Introducing Firefox Monitor, helping people take control after a data breach ~tech browsers security Article 466 words 24 votes
NCIX Data Breach - after bankruptcy, terabytes of unencrypted customer/company data have been sold to multiple buyers ~tech security privacy Link 20 votes
How Game Apps That Captivate Kids Have Been Collecting Their Data ~tech privacy Article 1944 words 11 votes
A call for principle-based international agreements to govern law enforcement access to data ~tech microsoft privacy Article 618 words 7 votes
A year later, Equifax lost your data but faced little fallout ~tech privacy Article 1049 words 17 votes
Who controls your data? Nine reporters in London, Paris, New York & San Francisco filed more than 150 requests for personal data to 30+ popular tech companies ~tech privacy Article 3731 words 8 votes
Fitbit's 150 billion hours of heart data reveal secrets about health ~health Article 2247 words, published Aug 27 2018 11 votes
Should Grindr users worry about what China will do with their data? ~tech privacy security Article 1202 words, published Aug 31 2018 16 votes
Google and Mastercard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales ~tech google privacy Article 92 words 26 votes
The tech industry is lobbying for federal data & privacy regulation that is friendly to the tech industry, but hostile to users' interests ~tech privacy Article 1471 words 11 votes
Venmo's public API exposes millions of transactions, startling users ~tech privacy security Article 747 words, published Jul 18 2018 10 votes
Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during California wildfire ~tech Article 1840 words 17 votes
MIT launches massive election data trove, ranks US election efficiency ~society politics Article 238 words, published Aug 15 2018 7 votes
CCleaner provokes fury over Active Monitoring, user data collection ~tech privacy Article 751 words 28 votes
Facebook in talks with banks to add your financial information to Messenger ~tech privacy security social media facebook.messenger Article 262 words 18 votes
538 shares largest dataset of Russian troll tweets, compiled by two professors at Clemson University ~tech social media Article 1373 words 17 votes
Training frequency for strength development: What the data say ~health fitness Article 5714 words 4 votes
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter partner for ambitious new data project ~tech google facebook microsoft Article 952 words 7 votes
Here's what fifty years of food supply data says about Canada's eating habits ~food history diet Article 1190 words 9 votes
On the future computer era modification of the American character and the role of the engineer, or, a little caution in the haste to number (1968) ~tech internet privacy Link 7 votes
Health insurers are vacuuming up details about you — and it could raise your rates ~health healthcare Article 3267 words 10 votes
What if people were paid for their data? ~tech privacy internet Article 1583 words, published Jul 7 2018 14 votes
Judge orders Health Canada to release 'confidential' pharmaceutical data ~health healthcare Article 1009 words 8 votes
Mitsubishi wants your driving data, and it's willing to throw in a free cup of coffee to get it ~transport Article 455 words, published Jul 6 2018 7 votes
Tens of thousands of Australians who have given DNA samples to sites such as Ancestry.com could have their genetic data examined by police without their knowledge ~tech privacy Article 653 words 12 votes
Penalty shoot-outs are basically still crap-shoots ~sports.football Article 330 words, published Jun 29 2018 7 votes
Data suggest that gentrifying neighborhoods powered Ocasio-Cortez's victory ~society politics Article 2535 words 6 votes
Facebook chats from planning session of Unite The Right 2 have been leaked ~tech social media facebook Article 1337 words 17 votes
‘Everyone is breaking the law right now’: GDPR compliance efforts are falling short ~tech privacy Article 791 words 19 votes
Migrants and refugees are good for economies: Analysis of thirty years of data from Western Europe refutes suggestions that asylum seekers pose a financial burden ~finance economics Article 674 words 6 votes
Joshua Schulte (of Vault 7 leaks) has been indicted for leaking CIA secrets ~tech privacy Article 928 words 8 votes
HART: Homeland Security’s massive new database will include face recognition, DNA, and peoples’ “non-obvious relationships” ~tech privacy Article 2230 words 23 votes
Facebook gave data access to Chinese firm flagged by US Intelligence ~tech privacy social media facebook Article 930 words 9 votes
Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends ~tech privacy Article 2002 words 11 votes
Spotify is asking its users if they'd subscribe to a $30/month data-only plan with Spotify Premium included ~tech Article 201 words 13 votes
Ad blocker Ghostery celebrates GDPR day by revealing hundreds of user email addresses ~tech privacy Article 466 words 30 votes
EU's General Data Protection Regulation comes into effect today. Rather than comply with it, some US news sites have chosen to simply block EU users. ~tech privacy Article 801 words 10 votes