Privacy Concerns

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-…

Incognito mode for Google Maps, announced last May, is currently in testing. With the mode enabled, user activity isnt saved to the users Google account. It was made available last week to beta testers using the preview version of the Google Maps Android app.…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin On July 23rd, 2019, U.S. Attorney General William Barr delivered a keynote address at the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University. The speech was …

Users of Amazon's Alexa digital assistant can now request that recordings of their voice commands delete automatically. Amazon says it saves such commands to improve the service. But the practice has raised concerns with privacy experts who say the recordin…

When my brother died, I was too shattered to write hisobituary. There is little record of his 29 years of life; it simply vanished. When I type Yush Gupta, Google autofills Yush Gupta death, a brutal reminder that even on the internet, a space where nothing i…

Amazon hardware chief David Limp showing off the new Echo Buds on Wednesday. James Martin/CNET Standing in a demo room that overlooked the Space Needle at Amazon's Seattle headquarters, Alexa hardware executive Miriam Daniel smiled as she encouraged me to s…

Its an exclusive address, eye-to-eye with the Space Needle, where everything going on inside and out can be monitored for your safety and convenience. “House number 729” on the 30th floor of Amazon’s Day 1 tower, on Wednesday was a showcase for new and updat…

James Martin/CNET Amazon is entering the smart glasses field with Echo Frames, the company announced at its Alexa event on Wednesday.  Dave Limp, senior vice president of devices and services, referred to Echo Frames as one of Amazon's "Day One Editions," p…

Google has blocked a proposed revision of the charter of the Privacy Interest Group (PING), a part of the W3C web standards body, over concerns that establishing an unchecked "authoritarian review group" will create "significant unnecessary chaos in the devel…

SEATTLE The answer to our online privacy concerns will require more regulation, Microsoft President Brad Smith warned.  Smith lays out a clear set of concerns and possible solutions to our open data revolution in his new book co-authored with Carol Ann Brown…