Privacy Concerns

While Google uses your location history, once enabled, primarily to send you targeted ads and other location-based services, we kind of knew that sooner or later, law enforcement would be using this as a tool to solve crimes and track suspects. There are a lo…

When detectives in a Phoenix suburb arrested a warehouse worker in a murder investigation last December, they credited a new technique with breaking open the case after other leads went cold. The police told the suspect, Jorge Molina, they had data tracking …

Earlier this month, Facebook undertook an effort to recast the debate around the regulation of big tech companies on its own terms. Mark Zuckerberg wrote an op-ed; Sheryl Sandberg published a blog post; and their deputies gave interviews to outlets read close…

Did you know that Apple is responsible for everything bad in technology? Even the stuff thats actively made worse every day by its competitors? Well, its true. Writing for The New York Times, Farhad Manjoo decries The Incredible Shrinking Apple. (Tip o the a…

This is an excerpt from a story delivered exclusively to Business Insider Intelligence Digital Health Briefing subscribers. To receive the full story plus other insights each morning, click here. Amazon released new software that makes its Alexa voice assis…

But the goal, Mr. Redl said, is a federal law that will harmonize data privacy rules in the United States and mesh enough with the European standard to avoid a more splintered marketplace. One sign of the administrations more cosmopolitan approach to technol…