Tag: Stuff

Facebook’s Facial Recognition Is Getting So Good It Doesn’t Need Faces
Facial recognition technology, when deployed on a site like Facebook, is both convenient and disconcerting. Amazing but creepy. If you upload a lot of photos, Facebook's facial rec...
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Uber: We Don’t Collect Background Location Data, But We Might at Some Point
On July 15, Uber is putting a new privacy statement into effect, and part of it is raising some eyebrows. A f...
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Facebook’s New App Isn’t Available in Europe Thanks to Facial Recognition Fears
Earlier this week, Facebook launched yet another standalone app. It's called...
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Which Companies Best Protect Your Data from the Government’s Prying Eyes?
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation's annual report on companies' commitment to protecting user data, Adobe, Apple, Wikimedia, Wordpress, and Yahoo have your back more...
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Obama Urged to Reject Encryption Backdoors in Tech-Backed Letter
President Obama is about to receive a letter signed by dozens upon doz...
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Yes, Your Google Hangouts Can Be Wiretapped
Google encrypts your Hangouts conversations, but it doesn't use end-to-end encryption. This means that Google can wiretap your Hangouts at the government's request. That's one b...
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How To Remove Your House From Google Street View
Apparently it's really easy to get your home blurred out on Google Maps Street View if you don't like the idea of people looking at where you live. In fact, you can also let Google...
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Obama’s Police Body Camera Initiative Kicks into Gear
On the day that Baltimore state's attorney Marilyn Mosby charged...
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Hillary Clinton: Body Cameras Should Be Worn by All Police Departments
Speaking at the David N. Dinkins Leadership & Public Policy Forum, Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton...
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Uber Denies Breach After User Info Goes Up for Sale
Uber says that it has found no evidence of a security breach following reports that user data has popped up for sale on dark web sites....
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Tech Companies Call for End to Mass Surveillance in Letter to Obama, Congress
The group Reform Government Surveillance, which includes Apple, AOL, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo, and mo...
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People Aren’t That Concerned About Government Surveillance, Even Post Snowden
Pew has just published a new report on Americans and how they protect their privacy i...
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Twitter Takes on Revenge Porn and Other Content Posted without Consent
Twitter has taken another step in protecting its users from harassment, this time targeting explicit content posted without consent or so-called "revenge porn." Twitter made a c...
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Reddit Wants No Part of the Next Fappening
Last year, hundreds of nude images of celebrities were stolen off the cloud and passed around various internet channels including 4chan and reddit. The latter, being a much more ma...
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Jeb Bush Fixes Social Security Number Leak, but People’s Email Addresses and Names Are Still Out in the Open
Earlier this week, The eGovernor (as the public apparently called him at some point) Jeb Bush released hundreds of thousands of emails from his tenure as governor of Florida. It wa...
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