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College-planning surveys give a peek into the opaque and little-regulated market of data-mining of minors.
Days after the ACLU released a damning report on Amazon’s face recognition product Rekognition, Amazon’s general manager of AI, Dr. Matt Wood, countered its findings in a blog post. The ACLU used Rekognition to scan the faces of all 535 members of Congress, finding the software mistook 28 of them for suspected…
An example of what Exactis knew about somebody. Redacted.
"If anyone was going to be posting my naked photos, it was going to be me, and I was going to get paid for it."
Many web users overestimate exactly how private a “private browsing mode” really is according to new research. That’s partly because of confusion in the way browser developers name and explain the modes, which also include “incognito.” Researchers at the University of Chicago and Leibniz University in Hannover ran a study with 460 participants. Each was […]
Millions of smart TVs in American homes are tracking everything you watch for the sake of advertisers. If that doesn’t sit right with you, here’s how to turn it off.
The apps were built for a flawed experience. Is it worth the cost?
(2016). The emotional context of information privacy. The Information Society: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 14-27.
Jason Gargac, 32, told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he made $3,500 from the live streams, which many criticized as an invasion of privacy.
It’s not just about privacy.
In part one of this series, we had a look at a few reasons why you should block ads on your network and devices. In the second part, we’ll cover a few of the common ad blocking utilities and how to best configure those tools for maximum effectiveness.
Unless you change the settings yourself, the stuff you do on Venmo is publicly visible. “Public by Default” explores the easily accessible details of Venmo users’ lives.
Broad data and business regulation, applicable worldwide As of January 1, 2020, companies around the world will have to comply with additional regulations rela
The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices for consumer "smart" homes raises concerns about user privacy. We present a survey method based on the Contextual Integrity (CI) privacy framew...
#PlaneBae is just the most recent example of an obnoxious trend.
Gmail’s privacy problems aren’t new. Our attitudes are.
The European Parliament has been making its presence felt today. As well as reopening democratic debate around a controversial digital copyright reform proposal by voting against it being fast-tracked, MEPs have adopted a resolution calling for the suspension of the EU-US Privacy Shield. The parliamentarians’ view is that the data transfer mechanism does not provide […]