A compelling film on Netflix, The Great Hack, adds to our understanding of big tech’s threat to democracy and explains how a lot of “tools” came out of the military’s psychological operations (or psyops) and ...
Questions arise about the use of data analysis in China. The OpenPower Foundation, led by Google and IBM executives, has the aim of “driving innovation.” It is registered in New Jersey as a community improvement ...
“The public doesn’t have a way of controlling what information the government has on them. And now there’s this rapidly advancing technology, with very few guidelines and protections for people, putting all of this information ...
A new UK proposal wants to implement ‘Ghost Protocol’ which would add law enforcement as an invisible participant to conversations on messaging apps. (Paulo Garcia, The Conversation) The term “ghost protocol” might remind you of ...
The annual G-20 summit wrapped up in Japan, but while it was long on topics it remains to be seen whether it will result in any action. On Saturday, June 29, the annual summit of ...
“If you find yourself spending more time fighting than getting to work, stop and ask yourself, ‘Who benefits from all the chaos?'” Apple CEO Tim Cook criticized Big Tech companies for failing to manage the ...
“The ‘ghost’ proposal would pose serious threats to cybersecurity and thereby also threaten fundamental human rights, including privacy and free expression” – Open Letter to GCHQ In an open letter to the U.K.’s Government Communications ...
“I don’t think we spend nearly enough time focusing on antitrust measures. And the truth of the matter is I think it’s something we should take a really hard look at.” Social media giant Facebook ...
Finnish owned Nokia is sending cell phone data packages to a Chinese server for an unknown reason. A report from the Norweigan Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) reveals that some Nokia 7 phones are secretly sending personal ...
As Facebook celebrates its 15th anniversary, Germany is certainly not joining in on the celebration but is instead ruling that Facebook is actually exploiting its customers. The Federal Cartel Office (FCO) in Germany is the ...
A new Do Not Track bill could establish privacy and cybersecurity standards for companies and executives, and could even impose jail time for those who fail to comply. A privacy bill recently proposed by U.S. ...
In November of 2018, Marriott disclosed that its Starwood database was hacked, affecting about 383 million guests. Last Friday, Marriott International announced that its Starwood Hotel failed to encrypt passport numbers for approximately five million ...
“In today’s era of ‘big data,’ Americans are using the internet every day without fully understanding the consequences of every click.” On Wednesday, 15 U.S. senators proposed the Data Care Act, wanting to change the ...
Researchers from Northeastern University in Boston decided to test out the popular consumer paranoia that smartphones secretly listen to your conversations. While they didn’t find evidence of smartphones recording your audio, they did find that ...
Scientists at the NanoPhotonics Centre and the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis have developed an intelligent toilet that can analyze urine to determine health information and the presence of any drugs or alcohol. As soon ...
In today’s world, people are inundated with personal technologies meant to make their life easier but that same tech could also potentially compromise their privacy and personal security. A new report from Inside Big Data ...
Activists have discovered that the Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) department of the U.K., which is responsible for collecting taxes, has collected voice data on millions of people without due warning. The discovery was ...
Every March, a diverse and inventive group of people converge in Austin, Texas to attend South By Southwest (SXSW), an event best known as a music festival founded in 1987. Since then, however, it has ...
Channel 4 News, a major U.K. news agency, just published an apparent damning undercover investigation of Cambridge Analytica, the data company that Trump hired for his 2017 election and has played an active role in ...
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