December 10, 2018 Facebook opening Bryant Park pop-up to teach users about privacy Mark Zuckerberg’s social network plans to open a pop-up kiosk on Dec. 13 in Midtown Manhattan, where it will field questions about its data-sharing practices and teach users how to understand its new privacy controls.
December 9, 2018 Justice Department investigates millions of fake net neutrality comments for potential crimes The Justice Department is probing whether crimes were committed when potentially millions of people's identities were posted to the Federal Communication Commission's website — without their permission — in comments about net neutrality rules.
December 9, 2018 Florida man jailed for using secretly-recorded sex videos for porn website A Florida man is facing jail time for stealthily recording pornographic videos and running a subscription website.
December 8, 2018 iPhone tracking, eavesdropping on police and more: Tech Q&A Is there an OS that doesn’t report back to Big Tech? I don’t want to use the Windows or Mac operating system.
December 7, 2018 Facebook could threaten democracy, warns former GCHQ chief Without stronger regulation, Facebook could become a threat to democracy, according to the former head of GCHQ, the British equivalent of the NSA.
December 1, 2018 Putting children’s data online has consequences, report says You might want to think twice about uploading all those baby photos.
November 28, 2018 Google's controversial Dragonfly project sparks employee backlash A group of almost 700 Google employees signed a letter calling on the tech giant to halt its potential plans to build a censored search engine for China — known as Dragonfly — saying it would "enable state surveillance" in the communist country.
November 27, 2018 Will the Brits reveal Mark Zuckerberg's secrets? One of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's biggest challenges may be from a doggedly persistent British lawmaker.
November 24, 2018 Amazon tracking, free privacy download and more: Tech Q&A I heard you say that vets can get internet access for $10/month. I looked at my provider’s website and did not see that plan.
November 21, 2018 Amazon leaks customer names and email addresses Some of you may be waking up today to find an email from Amazon in your inbox claiming the company has disclosed your name and email address.