Nearly two years after Europe's GDPR privacy law came into effect, supporters are frustrated by lack of enforcement, poor funding, limited staff resources and stalling tactics by the tech companies
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In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the US was wrong
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Magic Leap cuts half of jobs (about 1000) in major restructuring, plans to focus on enterprise business instead of consumer
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The devastating decline of Lee Holloway, one of the co-founders of Cloudflare
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Apple developing high-end headphones with interchangeable parts
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Google to slow hiring for rest of 2020, CEO tells staff
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The coronavirus has changed the way Americans use the internet
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5G coronavirus conspiracy theory fueled by coordinated effort
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After 9/11, Americans gave up privacy for security. Will we make the same trade-off after COVID-19?
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Thousands of Zoom cloud recordings have been exposed on the web because of the way Zoom names its recordings in unprotected AWS buckets
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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.
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Why doctors hate their computers
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Google will move its summer internship program to a virtual format this year
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Why don't we just ban targeted advertising?
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Who would have thought an iPad cursor could be so much fun?
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The coder and the dictator
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YouTube to limit default video quality around the world for a month
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Google wary of sharing user location data in pandemic fight
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Amazon glitch stymies Whole Foods, fresh grocery deliveries
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Secret-sharing app Whisper left hundreds of millions of users’ intimate messages, locations, and other data exposed publicly on the web
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Brands can now purchase an ad in the #2 slot of Reddit's "Trending" sections in the Popular page and Search dropdown
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Cameo is the logical endpoint of modern celebrity-obsessed culture and interaction—a perfect storm of convenience, access, and affordability
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Printing’s not dead: The $35 billion fight over ink cartridges
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In smart apartments, is tenants’ privacy for rent?
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EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app
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Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’
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I spoke out against sexual harassment at Uber. The aftermath was more terrifying than anything I faced before
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Lambda School's misleading promises
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I got a Ring doorbell camera. It scared the hell out of me.
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The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world
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I’ve fought for a free internet for thirty years. Here’s where I think we went wrong, and right
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Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses
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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
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US officials say Huawei has had the capability to secretly access telecom networks around the world for over a decade
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The CIA secretly bought a company that sold encryption devices across the world. Then its spies sat back and listened
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The launch of the Green Flyway research project between Røros, Norway and Östersund, Sweden marks a world-first test area for electric flights
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Facebook to pay $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology in Illinois
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You can track your assets, including everything from ROVs to containers anywhere in the world with Iridium’s new IoT tracking capability
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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
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The secretive company that might end privacy as we know it
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The Silicon Valley economy is here. And it’s a nightmare
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Which tech company is really the most evil?
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Critical Windows 10 exploit discovered which allows arbitrary software to be installed under the guise of Windows updates
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Meet the mad scientist who wrote the book on how to hunt hackers
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Cut undersea cable plunges Yemen into days-long internet outage
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Bots are destroying political discourse as we know it
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UrbanFootprint: A SimCity-like tool that lets urban planners see the potential impact of their ideas
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Sonos, squeezed by the tech giants, sues Google
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The lesson that market leaders are failing to learn form Xerox PARC
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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
35 votes