Facebook ‘Manage Activity’ Is a Long Overdue Privacy Feature
SecuritySecurity / Security News June 2, 2020 0
Throughout its 16 years of existence, Facebook has struggled to provide the privacy controls users really want and need to safeguard the data they post to the platform. It’s been a challenging project, with plenty of major detours along the way. But today Facebook is announcing a new tool... Read more
This Bot Hunts Software Bugs for the Pentagon
BusinessBusiness / Artificial IntelligenceSecurity June 1, 2020 0
Late last year, David Haynes, a security engineer at internet infrastructure company Cloudflare, found himself gazing at a strange image. “It was pure gibberish,” he says. “A whole bunch of gray and black pixels, made by a machine.” He declined to share the image, saying it would be a... Read more
How to Share Your Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Spotify Accounts the Safe Way
SecuritySecurity / Security Advice February 24, 2020 0
You’ve no doubt signed up for a whole host of online accounts by now, for video streaming, emailing, shopping, file storage, budgeting, and more besides. Sometimes, you’ll want to share that account with someone else. Which is fine! Live your life. Just don’t share your password in the process,... Read more
This Identity Activist Wants to Make Facebook Obsolete
SecuritySecurity / Privacy February 4, 2020 0
Kaliya Young doesn’t want to break up Facebook. She wants to make it obsolete. She was an Olympic-level water polo player for Canada, but in 2002 was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Freshly graduated from university and living in the San Francisco Bay Area, she went through months of radiation... Read more
An Artist Used 99 Phones to Fake a Google Maps Traffic Jam
SecuritySecurity / Privacy February 3, 2020 0
“What I’m really interested in generally is the connection between technology and society and the impact of technology, how it shapes us,” Weckert says. He cites philosopher Marshall McLuhan: We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us. “I have the feeling right now that technology is not... Read more
Watch Out for Coronavirus Phishing Scams
SecuritySecurity / Cyberattacks and Hacks January 31, 2020 0
On Thursday, as coronavirus infections spread, the World Health Organization classified the outbreak as a global emergency. On Friday, United States officials placed 195 people in a two-week federal quarantine at a California military base after evacuating them from Wuhan, China. Amid international efforts to contain transmission of the... Read more
Mark Warner Takes on Big Tech and Russian Spies
BackchannelSecurity January 30, 2020 0
In mid-November, as his House colleagues on Capitol Hill were consumed with questions about Ukraine and impeachment, Senator Mark Warner took to CNBC’s Squawk Box to discuss what he saw as one of the most important problems facing the country: Fitbit. Or, more specifically, the danger of allowing Google... Read more
The Doomsday Clock Moves Closer Than Ever to Midnight
SecuritySecurity / Security News January 26, 2020 0
But the one thing that is measurable is the degree of inaction on climate change. As the US withdraws from the Paris climate agreement, the world as a whole has done little to meet the deadlines agreed to, with efforts to meet the numbers needed to keep average global... Read more
Now Stores Must Tell You How They’re Tracking Your Every Move
BusinessBusiness / Artificial IntelligenceSecurity January 15, 2020 0
The law that took effect January 1 says businesses must “inform” consumers that they are collecting personal information “at or before the point of collection.” The attorney general’s draft regulations, due to be finalized in time for enforcement to begin in July, suggests physical premises distribute paper notices or... Read more
The Most Dangerous People on the Internet This Decade
SecuritySecurity / Security News January 2, 2020 0
In the meantime, Facebook has been used again and again to spread mass disinformation, from hate speech that fueled the massacre of Rohingya muslims in Myanmar to WhatsApp propaganda that helped elected far-right Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, to troll armies tasked with attacking the enemies of Philippines president Rodrigo... Read more
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