After 9/11, Americans gave up privacy for security. Will we make the same trade-off after COVID-19? privacy security Article 2040 words 21 votes
Thousands of Zoom cloud recordings have been exposed on the web because of the way Zoom names its recordings in unprotected AWS buckets security privacy amazon.web services Article 1179 words 24 votes
IT is the only department that touches everything. That puts a CIO in an ideal position to help the organization in its pursuit of new business models. Article 901 words 4 votes
Google will move its summer internship program to a virtual format this year google Article 405 words 7 votes
Why don't we just ban targeted advertising? privacy internet social media Article 3625 words 27 votes
Secret-sharing app Whisper left hundreds of millions of users’ intimate messages, locations, and other data exposed publicly on the web privacy social media Article 1293 words 9 votes
Brands can now purchase an ad in the #2 slot of Reddit's "Trending" sections in the Popular page and Search dropdown social media Article 617 words 26 votes
The high-tech iBackpack received almost $800,000 from crowdfunding, but backers never received their bags. Now the creator is being sued by the FTC and state of Texas. Article 5523 words 13 votes
Cameo is the logical endpoint of modern celebrity-obsessed culture and interaction—a perfect storm of convenience, access, and affordability social media Article 1606 words 13 votes
EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app security Article 619 words, published Feb 20 2020 14 votes
Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’ social media Article 519 words 19 votes
Prompted by Brexit, Google will move UK users' data out of Irish jurisdiction so they are no longer covered by EU privacy rules privacy google Article 464 words 21 votes
I spoke out against sexual harassment at Uber. The aftermath was more terrifying than anything I faced before privacy Article published Feb 17 2020 16 votes
I got a Ring doorbell camera. It scared the hell out of me. amazon privacy security.home Article 1905 words, published Feb 13 2020 11 votes
The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world microsoft Article 5935 words 9 votes
I’ve fought for a free internet for thirty years. Here’s where I think we went wrong, and right internet Article 2493 words 15 votes
DoorDash made its couriers agree to binding arbitration, and now a federal judge has ordered them to pay almost $10 million to arbitrate over 5000 claims filed by couriers Article 581 words 10 votes
US officials say Huawei has had the capability to secretly access telecom networks around the world for over a decade Article 15 votes
The CIA secretly bought a company that sold encryption devices across the world. Then its spies sat back and listened Article 8451 words 20 votes
The launch of the Green Flyway research project between Røros, Norway and Östersund, Sweden marks a world-first test area for electric flights Article 525 words 5 votes
Facebook to pay $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology in Illinois facebook privacy social media Article 846 words 9 votes
You can track your assets, including everything from ROVs to containers anywhere in the world with Iridium’s new IoT tracking capability Article 998 words 5 votes
Smartphones have blurred the distinction between different spaces by turning anywhere into a place you can work, watch TV/videos, talk with friends, and more Article 2356 words, published Jan 16 2020 10 votes
Critical Windows 10 exploit discovered which allows arbitrary software to be installed under the guise of Windows updates security microsoft Article 660 words 20 votes
Meet the mad scientist who wrote the book on how to hunt hackers security.cyber Article 2249 words 8 votes
UrbanFootprint: A SimCity-like tool that lets urban planners see the potential impact of their ideas Article 1353 words, published Apr 11 2018 6 votes
Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands privacy Article 3179 words 35 votes
Messaging app ToTok has been removed from the Apple and Google app stores following claims the United Arab Emirates government was using it to spy on people privacy android apple.app store google.play Article 1762 words 12 votes
One nation, tracked : An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry privacy Article 4390 words 15 votes
The real trouble with Silicon Valley: The toxicity of the web is peanuts compared with Big Tech’s failure to remake the physical world internet Article 2335 words 9 votes
Ponzi schemes, private yachts, and a missing $250 million in crypto: The strange tale of Quadriga and its founder's mysterious death Article 8102 words 8 votes
AIM was the killer app of 1997. It’s still shaping the internet today. internet Article 1995 words, published Dec 10 2019 16 votes