Privacy Concerns

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin The last we heard, Alphabets smart city project was on hold due to privacy concerns, but now its moving forward--possibly even bigger than originally planned. Indeed, resi…

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Satisfaction with social media isnt falling, but the industry has room for improvement. After dropping in 2018, customer satisfaction with social media overall holds steady at 72 on a scale of 0 to 100, according to the Ame…

Huawei suffered a major blow earlier this year from a US ban and the effects are still being felt. Today, a report has revealed that one product that was killed as a result of the ban was a Google Assistant speaker that Huawei was planning to launch later thi…

Google has a lot of ways to gather data on users, but likely in preparation for the Pixel 4, the company has a new method in place. Apparently, Google employees are stopping random people in the street and giving them $5 gift cards in exchange for their face …

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 …

This article is part of a series in which I attempt to use the web under various constraints, representing a given demographic of user. I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way tha…

In brief: Two of the worlds most valuable digital companies have been under the microscope once more as the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission publishes its Digital Platforms Inquiry. The report scrutinizes how Google and Facebook in particular ar…

All of the major voice assistants - including Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Google's Assistant — are not as private as you might think. As we wrote back in April, in order to train and improve virtual assistants like Alexa, the companies behind those s…

By Jessica Davis July 22, 2019 - The first Senate Judiciary Committee Tech Task Force convened last week, to begin discussions on how to handle technology issues across all sectors, including those with data privacy and security. Led by Sens. Marsha Blackbu…

Roundup Hello, welcome to this weeks roundup of news in the ever encroaching world of AI and machine learning. Well be talking about everyones favorite topic at the moment: facial recognition. First San Francisco, Somerville ... now Oakland: California's Oak…