Privacy Concerns

When Facebook launched Portal last year, I was equal parts blown away and deeply unimpressed. As a "smart" screen in my house, Portal was laughably bad compared to the Echo Show and Google/Nest Home Hub. But when you fired up a video chat through Facebook Mes…

The $149 Portal TV can connect to the top of your TV or sit below it on your media table. James Martin/CNET In a quaint Victorian house on a quaint park-adjacent corner of San Francisco, Andrew Bozworth, Facebook's VP of AR/VR, and head of Portal devices, R…

Medical records belonging to millions of patients across the world, including echocardiograms and X-rays, are stored on insecure servers that did not have basic security precautions in place, a new investigation by ProPublica has found. Data from more than 1…

Police in Florida have arrested a former criminal justice student they suspect to be a serial killer, linked to the murders of at least four women across the state spanning a decade. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office has charged Robert Tyrone Hayes with…

Eventually, that’s going to mean a single software stack common across VW Group’s vehicleseverything from the instrument displays and the infotainment to powertrain and chassis management (think traction and stability control or advanced driver assistance sys…

Gmail as one of the major email services worldwide has realized that privacy concerns are rising constantly - and this is happening at a global scale. To meet this new demand for private and secure emails, Gmail has introduced a new feature: Confidential mod…

The Amazon Echo Spot. Ry Crist/CNET Amazon said Thursday it will hold a devices and services event on Sept. 25 at its Seattle headquarters. Like several other tech giants, the online retailer for the last few years has held fall product launches to show of…

Starting Oct. 6, Spotify will be requesting location data for Premium Family subscribers. Angela Lang/CNET Spotify knows a lot about its users -- their musical tastes, their most listened-to artists, and their summer anthems. Starting Oct. 6, Spotify will a…

The provincial government has been intercepting Bluetooth signals from technology in peoples vehicles to study traffic patterns but stresses there is no risk of breaches of private data. Bluetooth is a wireless technology facilitating data exchanges between…

In an effort to save face from possible user privacy concerns, Facebook on Monday released a blog post explainingprivacy changes that will come with the highly anticipated iOS and Android software updates. In June, Apple revealed iOS 13 at its annual Worldwi…