May 22, 2018 Google search bug identifies rape victims in prominent cases Google has been accused of helping to identify rape victims, according to an analysis by the Times of London.
May 20, 2018 Fake Facebook accounts, misinformation spread quickly in wake of Santa Fe school shooting It didn’t long for lies and disinformation to spread in the wake of Friday’s Texas school shooting that left 10 people dead. Within minutes, fake Facebook accounts popped up showing the suspected shooter with a doctored image of him in a “Hillary 2016” hat, for example.
May 18, 2018 Google 'Selfish Ledger' vid reveals creepy concept to use data like 'genetic code' to program future A recently surfaced Google video discusses a creepy concept for collecting vast quantities of user data that could span generations.
May 15, 2018 Facebook hit with another data breach, 3M users exposed A huge new data breach has allowed a rogue app to snatch the intimate details of three million more users.
May 15, 2018 Amazon's front door security device let people spy on you. Here's how A security flaw in the Ring camera-equipped doorbell, which was purchased by Amazon for $1 billion in February, could allow people to spy on you.
May 12, 2018 Ukraine computer involved in Tennessee elections attack Investigators found evidence of a "malicious intrusion" into a Tennessee county's elections website from a computer in Ukraine during a concerted cyberattack, which likely caused the site to crash just as it was reporting vote totals in this month's primary.
May 9, 2018 Apple reportedly hits back at apps that are snooping on you Apple is reportedly kicking third-party apps out of the App Store that are sharing users' locations, as privacy remains in the spotlight in the wake of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal and pending regulation across the Atlantic.
May 9, 2018 Facebook labels you as a liberal or conservative — here’s how to turn it off As you click around Facebook, the network tracks whether your views are liberal, conservative, or somewhere in between, as well as your political party. Find that level of tracking creepy? There's an option to remove both labels.
May 7, 2018 Autonomous Uber ignored pedestrian it fatally hit, report says An autonomous vehicle operated by Uber that struck and killed a pedestrian in March was programmed to ignore her, a new report says.
May 7, 2018 Millions of tweets spread anti-Semitic messages, report says A study by the Anti-Defamation League found millions of anti-Semitic messages on Twitter, spreading negative stereotypes and conspiracy theories about Jews across the social media platform.
