More Privacy - Page 22
Perfect timing: Facebook hires top privacy law activists
The new hires were announced on the same day as another Facebook privacy scandal broke.
By Matt Binder
Facebook paid teens to install an app to spy on their internet and phone use
Facebook sought out people who'd give up their privacy for $20.
By Johnny Lieu
Facebook's plan to merge Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram raises data privacy concerns
Ireland's Data Protection Commission wants answers.
By Johnny Lieu
Zuckerberg's latest Facebook defense? A 'Wall Street Journal' op-ed
'We don’t sell people’s data, even though it’s often reported that we do.'
Twitter bug that made your private tweets public went unnoticed for over 4 years
Some Twitter for Android users' accounts could have been impacted.
By Matt Binder
The Face ID ruling is a big win for digital rights. Here's what needs to happen next.
Spoiler alert: Just stick with a passcode.
By Rachel Kraus
Apple CEO Tim Cook to Congress: It’s time to stand up for the right to privacy
“Consumers shouldn’t have to tolerate another year of companies irresponsibly amassing huge user profiles, data breaches that seem out of control and the vanishing ability to control our own digital lives,” writes Cook.
By Matt Binder
No, you can’t hide a security camera in your Airbnb rental photos and call that 'disclosure'
Attention Airbnb hosts: disclose your security cameras.
By Matt Binder
Judge rules that Feds can't force a person to unlock their phones
Although the ruling has the potential to be overturned.
By Lacey Smith
CES 2019 had nothing to say about the biggest conversation in tech
CES needs a more open conversation about data privacy.
By Pete Pachal
Face unlock can easily be defeated with a photo on many popular phones, study finds
Face recognition is not very secure on so many phones.
Research: Some Android apps share your data with Facebook without consent
Some Android apps might be sharing your data with Facebook, even if you don't use Facebook at all.
Chinese Airbnb competitor rolls out facial recognition locks
The Chinese surveillance state expands its reach.
By Rachel Kraus
Amazon sent over 1,000 audio recordings of an Alexa user to the wrong person
"Alexa, please don't send my personal data to a complete stranger."
By Matt Binder
For the first time, Facebook faces lawsuit from U.S. regulators over Cambridge Analytica
Not a great day for Facebook.
Facebook gave companies deeper access to user data than it let on: report
The social media giant was very loose about data sharing.
By Johnny Lieu
Why every super paranoid internet user needs a cheap Chromebook
If you can have a burner phone, why not a burner Chromebook?
By Raymond Wong
Facebook sets up holiday pop-up shop in New York to inform users about privacy concerns
Spread tidings of comfort and joy by educating New Yorkers on the social network’s privacy setting options.
By Matt Binder
Critics call NYPD's drone deployment 'a serious threat to privacy'
The 14 police drones can fly over the heads of city residents doing things lawfully protesting.
By Jack Morse
Marriott data breach affected 500 million customers over four years
Room service? More like doom service!
By Rachel Kraus
Think twice about posting photos of your kid on Facebook
Facebook has data on your kids. You gave it to the social media giant, after all.
By Jack Morse
