Privacy Concerns

In a new study out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, health researchers make the case for using real-time cell-phone data to track and mitigate major disease outbreaks. Unfortunately, several barriers—including privacy concerns and a lack of data …

Stadia is easily one of Google’s most controversial products of late, and, fortunately, not because of any privacy concerns. But despite the rocky start and loads of disgruntled subscribers, a less vocal number of Founder’s Edition buyers are reporting mostly…

Source: Daniel Rubino/Windows Central Tis the season for people to start buying video doorbells and Wi-Fi-connected cameras for their homes. I've written in the past about Ring, who has an app for Windows 10 (though it's far from feature parity with iOS and …

It's been four weeks since Alphabet(NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) put a ring on it, announcing plans to buy Fitbit(NYSE:FIT) in a $2.1 billion deal. The transaction would cash out investors in the wearables pioneer at $7.35 a share. The stock nearly traded that …

Prospective owners of the Rayvolt X One, a sleek e-bike that can reach speeds of up to 28 mph, wont have to worry about bike thieves. The bike is equipped with an Android-powered touchscreen that uses facial recognition, only unlocking the bike if it detects …

Amazon said it's ending a sampling program that some shoppers saw as creepy. Under the program, advertisers paid to send shoppers free products included with their orders. The program used machine learning and predictive analytics to crunch Amazon data and i…

Tyler Lizenby/CNET If you've already started connecting the various devices and fixtures around your home, you'll know that there are a lot of ways to approach the problem. You might just want one device to solve a particular issue, like a smart plug to add …

Well, this is certainly not great: An unprotected database of more than a billion users' records from across the internet including "social media accounts, email addresses, and phone numbers" was discovered on an unidentified server that could be accessed by …

As people's personal information becomes increasingly valuable, an overwhelming majority of Americans are concerned about what companies like Facebook or Google are doing with that data. According to a new survey from the Pew Research Center, 79% of American…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Today, AI algorithms are changing everything from how we navigate the world around us to how we think about our humanity. In the words of author and media theorist Neil Po…