Inside the World Wide Web Consortium as members debate the future of online privacy, with browsers' engineers often at odds with companies that rely on tracking
James Rosewell could see his company's future was in jeopardy. — It was January 2020, and Google had just announced key details … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @hkanji , @jason_kint , @tiffanycli , @davi...
DHS and the FBI are investigating a robocall and text campaign warning US voters to “stay safe and stay home”
Despite scattered reports … New York Times : Despite Fears of Violence, Election Day Proceeds Smoothly as Millions Line Up to Vote Kate Cox / Ars Technica : “Stay Home” robocalls to voters prompt FBI,...
Documents show how Clear, which lets its members skip security lines at 35 US airports, is building a digital ID system for storing health care info and more
'You are your driver's license, your credit card, your health care card, your building access card' — In March, the air travel industry ground to a halt. Tweets: @davegershgorn , @dlberes , @turnern...
Former director at Facebook, Tim Kendall, told Congress Facebook “took a page from Big Tobacco's playbook, working to make our offering addictive at the outset”
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A retrospective on Facebook's past decade, during which it grew to 2.45B users to become a major facet of life worldwide and wound up in regulatory crosshairs
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The Archive Team, which wants to save Yahoo Groups content by uploading it to Internet Archive, says Verizon has blocked the email addresses of its volunteers
and Blocking Users Trying to Archive Its Content Kate Cox / Ars Technica : Verizon reportedly blocks archivists from Yahoo Groups days before deletion [update] Featheredleader / YAHOO GROUPS CRUSADE H...
Researchers find the addresses and demographic details of more than 80M US households listed on an unsecured database, now offline, on a Microsoft cloud service
or if so, how. http://www.vpnmentor.com/... Kate Cox / @kcoxdc : Data leakage: now so ubiquitous that data piles are just sitting around and nobody can even tell who dropped them. Like a random black ...
Hacker behind LinkedIn's 117M e-mail database claims to have 360M Myspace user emails with passwords
MySpace was hacked. LeakedSource has obtained … AJ Dellinger / The Daily Dot : MySpace may have been hacked and never told its users about it Tyler Lee / Ubergizmo : Hacker Tries To Sell 427 Million ...
Microsoft updates Windows Defender, its onboard anti-virus software, to remove the Superfish software that was pre-installed on many Lenovo computers
While Lenovo Stumbles And Superfish Remains Silent Center for Democracy & Technology : Is Breaking Web Encryption Legal? Simon Phipps / InfoWorld : Lenovo: ‘We were as surprised as you’ — In an excl...