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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...