Privacy Concerns

Tenants in New York City have reached a settlement with their landlord requiring the landlord to install actual locks with actual keys on demand, rather than insisting that all tenants use locks from Latch, the leading Internet of Things "smart lock" vendor, …

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Subscribe to Crazy/Genius : Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play If you have a hard time understanding the meaning of privacy and the scale of digital surveillance in the modern age—and let’s face it, who isn’t?—consider a toy named Cayla. Cayla …

Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google, speaks at the Google I/O conference at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, Calif., May 7, 2019. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times) By: Daisuke Wakabayashi and Brian X Chen Google, the company that may know…

We think privacy is for everyone not just for the few, Sundar Pichai, Googles chief executive, said on Tuesday at an annual conference for Google developers. Image Credit: Jim Wilson/The New York Times Google, the company that may know the most about our dig…

Google has announced that it will shutter the Works with Nest developer program effective August 31. To date, this program has allowed developers to integrate Nest smart home devices with their own products, applications and services. Google acquired Nest fo…

The pervading theme in Google I/O 2019 seems to be privacy. Ironic considering the company was, at one point, regarded to be its biggest violator. Whether you believe it turned over a new leaf or is cooking up something is for you to decide. The fact is that,…

Google's annual I/O developer conference took place today, and the Mountain View-based company announced a number of changes and updates, some of which will be coming to Google products available on iOS devices and others that are of interest as services that…

What if the Google Home Hub had a camera and larger, higher resolution display? Meet the Google Nest Hub Max — the first smart home product to come from the newly announced Google Nest co-brand. The Google Nest Hub Max goes on sale in the U.S. and U.K. on Ju…

As its name suggests, the Nest Hub Max looks to be a larger, more capable version of last year's Google Home Hub. It has a 10-inch HD screen, which makes it better suited for shared spaces like the kitchen or a large living room. As with the Home Hub, the…