As a consumer, you buy a new Android cellphone. It could be any brand, but it is likely to be an Android as they account for more than 80% of today’s cellphone market. You open the box, press the “On” button and the phone connects to the internet. Without further ado, you have just triggered […]
How Is This Co. Even in Business?: Facebook Harvesting New Users’ Email Contacts ‘Without Consent’…
According to Business Insider, the company, which has been plagued by dozens of privacy and security scandals over the past few years, is asking “some new users to provide the social network with the password to their email accounts,” which Facebook then reportedly uses to import the user’s contacts, “despite not asking the user for […]
Facebook Reveals News Feed Algorithm’s Secrets…
Facebook is finally pulling back the curtain on how its algorithms decide what to show in your News Feed. The tech giant is launching a new button called “Why am I seeing this post?” that will show users what factors went into displaying specific posts on their News Feed. This transparency about ranking marks a […]
Tesla Cars Keep More Data Than You Think, Including This Video of a Crash That Totaled a Model 3…
If you crash your Tesla, when it goes to the junk yard, it could carry a bunch of your history with it. That’s because the computers on Tesla vehicles keep everything that drivers have voluntarily stored on their cars, plus tons of other information generated by the vehicles including video, location and navigational data showing […]
The Haunting of Hacker House…
Our Bed and Breakfast looked like it was out of a goth comic book: a shadowy, mid-sized Victorian on top of a steep hill, in forced perspective. A blood-red “vacancy” sign glowed overbright in the parlor window. My son and I had taken Amtrak to upstate New York for a weekend of cheap skiing. Before […]
Pew: Americans Stop Paying for News…
While their appetite for information is high, a historic low percentage of Americans are paying for news as they turn ever increasingly to digital providers of free media. The latest Pew Research Center survey found that just 1-in-10 have coughed up a cent for any kind of news in the last year. “When it comes […]
LEAKED AUDIO: Google Discusses ‘Steering’ the Conservative Movement…
Google’s senior director of U.S. public policy, Adam Kovacevich appeared to describe the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as a “sideshow Circus,” in a leaked audio recording in which he also argued that Google should remain a sponsor of the conference to “steer” the conservative movement “away from nationalistic and incendiary comments.” The comments came […]
Internal Facebook Document Leak Shows How Company Planned to Sell User Data…
Leaked Facebook documents including court filings and internal discussions by Facebook employees reveal how the company planned to sell user data for profit. In 2018, the U.K. Parliament used its legal powers to obtain a number of internal Facebook documents as it attempted to hold the social media giant accountable for the Cambridge Analytica data scandal which saw […]
Huawei Tried to Steal His Technology, But He Was Working for the FBI All Along…
Adam Khan believed he had invented nearly indestructible glass that was going to revolutionize the technology industry. His “diamond glass” looked like ordinary glass, but was 6 times stronger than the industry standard. His plan, according to a new Bloomberg article? License the technology to phone manufacturers and turn a pretty penny for his company, Akhan Semiconductor, Inc. […]
Cisco Joins Other Tech Giants in Calling for a Federal Privacy Law…
Cisco yesterday “issued a call to governments and citizens around the world to establish privacy as a fundamental human right in the digital economy,” according to a Cisco press release. Other Big Tech companies have already endorsed drafting a federal privacy law, as reported by Ars Technica in Cisco, like Apple and other tech giants, […]
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