Privacy Concerns

Ring, the Amazon-owned maker of smart-home doorbells and web-enabled security cameras, is changing its privacy settings two weeks after a study showed the company shares customers' personal information with Facebook, Google and other parties without users' consent. The change will let Ring users block the company from sharing most, but…

Home / World News / ‘It felt like everyday cold’: Student describes catching the coronavirus The coronavirus-affected passengers on a cruise ship quarantined off the coast of Japan are said they don’t have much to do and want to go back home as soon as possible.“All I can do is…

Fifteen years ago, if you wanted to join Facebook (then The FaceBook), you needed a valid college email address and the site did not offer much more than study group meetups or a place to chat and share pictures with high school friends. Today, Facebook is a juggernaut with roughly…

Many Amazon executives, when asked what their long-term goal is for Alexa, have told me the same thing over the years: to become a "Star Trek"-like supercomputer capable of virtually anything you throw at it with a simple voice command, including on-the-fly language translation in any language. As Amazon VP…

Not all PC files work on your Android smartphone or tablet, but there are some exceptions. For example, you can unzip any archive files. Most smartphones these days have built-in file managers with unzip tools but if they don’t, you can certainly find a file manager in the app store…

CHICAGO (CBS) — They’re watching you in a whole new way, with controversial new facial recognition software used by Chicago Police. CBS 2’s Tara Molina is Always Investigating and she found that while this software is new to the city, the practice isn’t. The department has used some form of…

As the growing scale of facial recognition shows, more data can always be extracted. Jonathan Zittrain February 7, 2020 A monitor displays the Omron Corp. Okao face and emotion detection technology during CES 2020.Bridget Bennett / Bloomberg via GettyTwenty years ago at a Silicon Valley product launch, Sun Microsystems CEO…

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People who used Google Takeout between Nov. 21-25 may have received videos that were posted by strangers. On Tuesday, Google apologized for the incident via email. This is not the first time the search giant violated users’ privacy. It’s no secret that Google collects a mind-boggling amount of personal information…