FBI Practices for Intercepted Emails Violated 4th Amendment, Judge Ruled
A federal judge secretly ruled last year that the F.B.I.’s procedures for searching for Americans’ emails within a repository of […]
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Tech firms know more about us than any spy agency says ex-GCHQ chief
Big internet firms know more about the lives of private individuals than any intelligence agency ever has and that is […]
Google to address ad frequency with machine learning when cookies aren’t available
Google will be rolling out an approach to ad frequency control that doesn’t rely on cookies in Display & Video […]
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Releases Principles on Artificial Intelligence
The U.S. Chamber’s Technology Engagement Center and Center for Global Regulatory Cooperation recently released a set of ten principles essential […]
Former Yahoo! engineer hacked user emails for smutty snaps
Former Yahoo! software engineer has pleaded guilty in a California federal court to one count of computer intrusion after breaking […]
Facebook is building more secure Instagram messaging app
Facebook is launching Threads, a new camera-first messaging app from Instagram for keeping up with your close friends in a […]
Over 50% of companies have experienced a data breach
New research by Bitdefender discovered that 24% of companies have already suffered a data breach halfway through 2019. While 57% […]
Google Facial Recognition Tactics Raise Racial, Privacy Concerns
In the past, facial recognition technology has notoriously had a harder time identifying people with darker skin. Google wants to […]
French Liberte Tested by Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Plan
France is poised to become the first European country to use facial recognition technology to give citizens a secure digital […]
Facebook can be ordered to remove content worldwide
The E.U. Court of Justice ruled that Facebook and other platforms will need to remove information or block access to […]
Debt Collection Agency to Pay $267 Million in Robocall Lawsuit
On September 10, 2019, California federal judge entered a $267 million judgment against a debt collection agency, Rash Curtis & […]
Andrew Yang proposes that your digital data be considered personal property
The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang published his latest policy proposal: to treat data as a property right. Announcing […]