Privacy Concerns

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect in the European Union a year ago this month. GDPR, which gives EU citizens more control over their personal data by mandating how businesses must handle that information, has attracted great inter…

Privacy has been a huge concern lately, with Facebook’s reputation being destroyed, Google in the fire for collecting data and Apple focusing on pro-privacy ads. All the world want’s to talk about nowadays is their own privacy. And rightly so. Apple has allo…

SUNRISE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect in the European Union a year ago this month. GDPR, which gives EU citizens more control over their personal data by mandating how businesses must handle th…

A database with millions of data points on games played plus sensitive information was left right in the middle of the internet fairway for all to see.Finding cloud databases with sensitive information left open to the internet has become par for the course t…

Do you purchase items online using an account linked to a Gmail email account? If so, chances are that Google is tracking and archiving your online purchases. What are the details? In an age of technology giants and privacy concerns, CNBC reported last week…

Google Glass lives on on factory floors despite its consumer flame out. Courtesy of Google Google Glass is back. Years after the wearable gadgets infamous consumer flame out, it continues to live on in warehouses and on factory floors, and Google announc…

A White House intiative to report political bias by social media companies is facing backlash from Democrats. | Krill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images The White Houses invitation for Americans to report political bias by social media companies drew more blowback…

Plus: White House passes on anti-online extremism pledge, San Francisco introduces an “IPO tax”, and the FCC goes after robocalls. The “smarter” wall: how drones, sensors, and AI are patrolling the border. As politicians debate over whether to continue to spe…

Five years ago, when I was working in adtech, Amazon was not even on my companys radar. But a recent study revealed how dramatically things have changed in just a few short years: Today, a third of marketers are shifting their ad spend from tradition…

Experts explain why people are giving mixed signals about smart tech. Many of us are in unhealthy relationships — with tech companies. The makers of some our most omnipresent technology like Google, Facebook, and Amazon have continually jeopardized user trust…