The European Union has already ruled that data generated by cars belongs to their owners. Above, vehicles cross the Austrian-German … More
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World Wide Surveillance System Being Created Illegally By Collecting Millions Of Photos Available Online Without Permission
People’s faces are being used without their permission, in order to power technology that could eventually be used to surveil … More
Privately Owned Satellites Open Uncharted Territory With Data Collection
David Martin reports on a new, uncharted frontier in the collection of data created by hundreds of privately produced satellites … More
AT&T Promises To Stop Selling Customer Location Data Following Federal Investigation Announcement
AT&T said Thursday that it will stop selling its customers’ location data to third-party service providers after a report this … More
Inventor Of The Internet Has Wild New Plan To Decentralize The Web And Make It Harder For Tech-Giants To Collect Personal Data
Last week, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, asked me to come and see a project he has … More
United Nations Mistakenly Releases Passwords And Sensitive Information To Entire Internet
The United Nations accidentally published passwords, internal documents, and technical details about websites when it misconfigured popular project management service … More
Techo-Tyranny: You Should Really Care That Amazon, Google, IBM And More Are Trying To Access Your Hospital Records And END Patient Privacy
Doesn’t it feel like a net is closing in around us from every direction lately? Big Tech companies like Google … More
YIKES: St. Louis University Installs Amazon Alexa In Every Dorm Room
How Amazon Hopes to Make Alexa a More Delightful Experience For Users There’s bigger focus on the actual dialogue. The … More
All Israelis Will Be Required To Join Biometric Database Starting 2017
“Israel is joining many other countries around the world which have concluded that their citizens should have smart and secure … More
Big Brother 2016: Beyond Orwell’s Wildest Dreams
Media is doling out in bite-sized bits what we already knew: we are being tracked and traced, recorded and stored. … More