No cash needed at this cafe. Students pay the tab with their personal data. privacy Article 847 words 31 votes
China's Social Credit system: The first modern digital dictatorship Article 1554 words, published Sep 17 2018 8 votes
Introducing Firefox Monitor, helping people take control after a data breach browsers security Article 466 words 24 votes
NCIX Data Breach - after bankruptcy, terabytes of unencrypted customer/company data have been sold to multiple buyers security privacy Link 20 votes
How Game Apps That Captivate Kids Have Been Collecting Their Data privacy Article 1944 words 11 votes
A call for principle-based international agreements to govern law enforcement access to data microsoft privacy Article 618 words 7 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 privacy Article 3731 words 8 votes
Should Grindr users worry about what China will do with their data? privacy security Article 1202 words, published Aug 31 2018 16 votes
Google and Mastercard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales 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 privacy Article 1471 words 11 votes
Venmo's public API exposes millions of transactions, startling users privacy security Article 747 words, published Jul 18 2018 10 votes
Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during California wildfire Article 1840 words 17 votes
CCleaner provokes fury over Active Monitoring, user data collection privacy Article 751 words 28 votes
Facebook in talks with banks to add your financial information to Messenger privacy security social media facebook Article 262 words 18 votes
538 shares largest dataset of Russian troll tweets, compiled by two professors at Clemson University social media Article 1373 words 17 votes
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter partner for ambitious new data project google facebook microsoft Article 952 words 7 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) internet privacy Link 7 votes
What if people were paid for their data? privacy internet Article 1583 words, published Jul 7 2018 14 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 privacy Article 653 words 12 votes
Facebook chats from planning session of Unite The Right 2 have been leaked social media facebook Article 1337 words 17 votes
‘Everyone is breaking the law right now’: GDPR compliance efforts are falling short privacy Article 791 words 19 votes
Joshua Schulte (of Vault 7 leaks) has been indicted for leaking CIA secrets privacy Article 928 words 8 votes
HART: Homeland Security’s massive new database will include face recognition, DNA, and peoples’ “non-obvious relationships” privacy Article 2230 words 23 votes
Facebook gave data access to Chinese firm flagged by US Intelligence privacy social media facebook Article 930 words 9 votes
Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends 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 Article 201 words 13 votes
Ad blocker Ghostery celebrates GDPR day by revealing hundreds of user email addresses 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. internet privacy Article 801 words 10 votes
Facebook suggests no compensation for European users affected by data breach facebook privacy social media Article 320 words 6 votes
Parabola raises $2.2 million to bring the power of coding to non-technical people Article 548 words 3 votes
Four ways your Google searches and social media affect your opportunities in life social media google Article 839 words 4 votes
People increased Facebook usage after Cambridge Analytica scandal facebook social media Article 391 words 9 votes
You can’t opt out of sharing your data, even if you didn’t opt in privacy internet social media Article 1283 words 7 votes
Cambridge Analytica closing operations following Facebook data controversy social media facebook Article 66 words 5 votes
WhatsApp founder plans to leave after broad clashes with parent Facebook social media facebook Article 1312 words 6 votes