All the Data Apple Collects About You—and How to Limit It
[ad_1] When I turned on personalized ads (I had previously turned them off), Apple’s ad targeting information says I am included in segments based on my age (from my date…
Freedom of Thought Is a Human Right
[ad_1] In his 2019 Stanford address, Tim Cook warned about the threat to our “freedom to be human” from technology that looks to get inside our heads and rearrange the…
The Battle Over Women’s Data
[ad_1] 2023 will be the year that the battle over data ownership takes to the streets. The United States Supreme Court’s repeal of Roe v. Wade has politicalized women’s bodies—and…
A Police App Exposed Secret Details About Raids and Suspects
[ad_1] Last September, law enforcement agents from five counties in Southern California coordinated an operation to investigate, raid, and arrest more than 600 suspected sex offenders. The mission, Operation Protect the…
Slack Discloses Breach of Its Github Code Repository
[ad_1] Ever since Elon Musk spent $44 billion on Twitter and laid off a large percentage of the company’s staff, there have been concerns about data breaches. Now it seems a security incident…
Twitter Data Leak: What the Exposure of 200 Million User Emails Means for You
[ad_1] After reports at the end of 2022 that hackers were selling data stolen from 400 million Twitter users, researchers now say that a widely circulated trove of email addresses…
Algorithms Need Management Training, Too
[ad_1] The European Union is expected to finalize the Platform Work Directive, its new legislation to regulate digital labor platforms, this month. This is the first law proposed at the European…
The Slow Death of Surveillance Capitalism Has Begun
[ad_1] Surveillance capitalism just got a kicking. In an ultimatum, the European Union has demanded that Meta reform its approach to personalized advertising—a seemingly unremarkable regulatory ruling that could have…
Banning TikTok Hurts Higher Education
[ad_1] Over the winter holidays, 16 US states—including Georgia and Texas—banned the popular short-form video app TikTok in work contexts, specifically on any device one has been provided by their…
Encryption Faces an Existential Threat in Europe
[ad_1] That’s a lot of lawyers. They [Big Tech] are throwing literally hundreds of millions of euros at this problem. And as much as Ms. Vestager is committed to fighting…
How to Set Up Your Kid’s ‘Smart’ Toy
[ad_1] A critical part of your research is reading a toy’s privacy policies before you turn it on or set it up. (More on this in the next section.) Look Out…
The EU’s Privacy Protections Must Extend Beyond Its Borders
[ad_1] Technology plays a significant role in community building—especially for historically marginalized groups. Women use apps to track all sorts of things, including their periods (nearly a third of all…
Everyone Is Using Google Photos Wrong
[ad_1] Every year, more than a billion people use the Google Photos app to upload and store billions of pictures and videos. For many, the process is likely identical: You snap…
Elon Musk and the Dangers of Censoring Real-Time Flight Trackers
[ad_1] I woke up Friday morning to the message I’d been expecting: “Your account, @Justin_Ling has been locked for violating the Twitter Rules.” Below was the offending tweet: a link to…
Lensa AI and ‘Magic Avatars’: What to Know Before Using the App
[ad_1] Has the stale selfie that’s served as your profile picture gone a little too long without a refresh? You’ve likely seen friends using the Lensa AI app to create colorful, custom cartoon…
Apple Expands End-to-End Encryption to iCloud Backups
[ad_1] Apple announced today that it is launching expanded end-to-end encryption protections in its iCloud service. The company already offers the vital security feature for some data in its cloud…
Apple Kills Its Plan to Scan Your Photos for CSAM. Here’s What’s Next
[ad_1] In August 2021, Apple announced a plan to scan photos users stored in iCloud for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The scheme was meant to be privacy-preserving and allow…
The Dangerous Digital Creep of Britain’s ‘Hostile Environment’
[ad_1] In 2019, Anna moved from Poland to the UK with her partner and three children. Soon after they settled into their home and new life, he became violent. Anna…
China’s Police State Targets Zero-Covid Protesters
[ad_1] It was another busy week in security that saw big news about protests, surveillance, spyware, data breaches, and more. In the US, recent court filings detail how the FBI’s use…
Google Moves to Block Invasive Spanish Spyware Framework
[ad_1] The commercial spyware industry has increasingly come under fire for selling powerful surveillance tools to anyone who can pay, from governments to criminals around the world. Across the European…
A Peek Inside the FBI’s Unprecedented January 6 Geofence Dragnet
[ad_1] For the final step, the government sought subscriber information, including phone numbers, Google accounts, and email addresses, for two groups of users. The first was for devices that appeared…
Apple Tracks You More Than You Think
[ad_1] Cybersecurity startup Corellium offered or sold its software to spyware and hacking-tool creators in multiple repressive countries, a WIRED investigation revealed this week. A previously unreported 507-page document, believed to…
Redacted Documents Are Not as Secure as You Think
[ad_1] “Even if you do the redaction, supposedly correctly, even if you remove the text, there’s a lot of latent information that is dependent on the content that was redacted,…
Elon Musk’s Twitter Risks Big Fines From US Regulators
[ad_1] The FTC’s treatment of Facebook helps illustrate the danger to Musk and Twitter. In 2019, following a complaint alleging violation of a 2012 order, the agency hit the company…
Your Google Searches Are Quietly Evolving. Here’s What’s Next
[ad_1] Changes to the way Google handles search rankings are intended to push up content from real people, not content farms optimizing content for search engines, and that works in…