May 14, 2019 San Francisco becomes 1st major US city to outlaw police use of facial recognition technology San Francisco is to become the first U.S. city to outlaw a rapidly developing technology that has alarmed privacy and civil-liberties advocates, as the liberal city’s supervisors voted Tuesday to ban the use of facial recognition software by police and other city departments.
May 10, 2019 US Senators call for FTC probe of Amazon's Echo Dot Kids Edition Several US senators are asking Amazon for more information about its Echo Dot Kids Edition, which advocacy groups claim violates kids' digital privacy.
May 5, 2019 How to make your password more secure Here are some best practices to keep your passwords safer.
May 2, 2019 Google preps new privacy controls to let you delete your location data Google is preparing new privacy controls that can periodically erase your location history from the company's servers.
April 30, 2019 Apple says parental control apps were pulled for security reasons Apple's attempts to help parents fight smartphone addiction among children should've been a PR win.
April 25, 2019 NSA recommends dropping controversial mass surveillance program, report says The National Security Agency has recommended that the White House abandon a controversial surveillance program that collects vast amounts of information about Americans' phone calls and text messages, claiming the legal and logistical burdens of maintaining it outweigh its benefits to the intelligence community.
April 23, 2019 Top Dem says Zuckerberg should be held 'individually liable' for Facebook privacy breaches A top Democrat on Tuesday called for the Federal Trade Commission to hold Facebook chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg “individually liable for the company’s repeated violations of Americans’ privacy,” and charged that Zuckerberg's status as majority shareholder improperly “insulates him from accountability to Facebook’s board and shareholders."
April 21, 2019 Hidden AirBnB cameras, viruses attack Apple and more: Tech Q&A I keep hearing about hidden cameras in AirBnb rentals. Is there a trick to spotting hidden spy cameras?
April 20, 2019 Millennials and men are more often fooled by scams and robocalls, report says Phone scammers are making make more money than ever and their easiest targets are millennials and men, a new report says.
