Privacy Concerns

A Senate investigation of Russias social-media influence criticized U.S. tech giants, with new attention on Google and YouTube, for helping spread misinformation during the 2016 presidential election and pushed them to better coordinate to prevent a repeat ne…

As privacy concerns and antitrust actions have dominated the market, Google has reshaped its business to meet new standards set by governments and consumers.In some ways, this is truly a new Google. Well-known products like AdX and the DoubleClick suite are g…

A Maine hospital is under fire after an investigation revealed that several employees had created a "wall of shame" that disclosed confidential medical records of patients with disabilities, the Bangor Daily News reports. Though the finding has been a matter …

Bankers and tech experts keep speculating that Big Tech and financial technology (fintech) companies will dramatically disrupt the traditional banking industry, but some economists say such talk is overhyped. Deutsche Bank just released a report describing h…

Want to order that Snuggie you saw on TV? Ask Alexa (or Google or Siri). Need an easy-to-follow audio recipe for chicken parmesan? They can help with that, too. The home-assistant market has boomed over the past five years, offering users quick web access fo…

Quite a lot of people have privacy concerns over using voice assistants such as Google Assistant, especially given some recent stories. Now, Google wants to give users more control over their voice data from Assistant with the ability to delete that data anyt…

For the past 18 months, stories of smartphones and smart home virtual assistants (like Amazon Echo or Google Home) leaking user data have dominated media headlines and raised all sorts of privacy concerns. Now get ready for a new wave of Internet of Things (I…

from the third-parties-are-the-best-parties dept We've written several times before about the FBI and its unnatural love for National Security Letters. NSLs make the FBI tick. They're super handy, too. The FBI issues them to itself and then hands them to a v…

ReutersOct 01, 2019 19:54:07 IST Comcast Corp, one of Americas largest media and communications companies, is wading into the epic regulatory pile-on against big tech companies such as Google, according to people familiar with the matter. Major tech compani…

The Verge has a roundup of Amazons latest hardware event, at which the company flooded the market with 15 new products, many of them with the Alexa voice assistant built-in. There were expected updates like a new screen-equipped Echo Show, a new Eero mesh Wi-…