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Last year, with much fanfare, the tech giant unveiled a screen-time tracker of its own. Then it quietly began purging competitors from its store.
Digital labor is valuable even when we do it for free. Should we get paid?
Gmail servers have been randomly rejecting my personal mail with vague SMTP errors about spam detection.
Months after a Which? investigation into the manufacture of misleading reviews most are still active
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Facebook said that the new privacy issue stemmed from a code change from May 2016.
Top-rated reviews on popular items are dominated by unknown brands, consumer group Which? finds.
Facebook has developed a plan to turn its users into the stars of advertising campaigns through new technology which can automatically scan people’s photographs and identify which products are featured in them.
The privacy crisis Apple and Google need to fix—now
The tech giant records people’s locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, running the risk of snaring the innocent.
A significant majority of consumers do not expect Google to track their activities across their lives, their locations, on other sites, and on other platforms.
Nanjing city cleaners are tracked by GPS and warned about long breaks
Malware that stole contacts, audio, location and more was under development for years.
We reviewed 28 popular home routers for basic hardening features. None performed well. Oh, and we found a bug in the Linux/MIPS architecture.
Google is about as open as a clam. Over the holidays, I found a Chromebook that Samsung had given me to evaluate about six years ago and which had been gathering dust ever since. Coincidentally, Laura’s sister Annie had just told me that she needed a laptop. Hmm… Well, there was no way I was going to give her a Google spy device, so I decided to liberate the Chromebook from Google’s surveillance-based operating system (ChromeOS) and gift it to her.
Experts with whom we consulted confirmed New York Times reports on the Saudi capability to “collect vast amounts of previously inaccessible data from smartphones in the air without leaving a trace—including phone calls, texts, emails”—and confirmed that hacking was a key part of the Saudis’ “extensive surveillance efforts that ultimately led to the killing of [Washington Post] journalist Jamal Khashoggi.”