Google's public version of events of how it came to secretly intercept Americans' data sent on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers over a two-year period doesn't quite mesh with what the search giant told federal regulators. And if Google had its way, the public would have never learned the software on Google's Street View mapping cars was "intended" to collect payload data from open Wi-Fi networks.

Google's sibling company Sidewalk Labs offers planning agencies the ability to model an entire city's patterns of movement.

During me being at my parents over the holidays (Christmas 2017) I had the usual IT-support stuff to do, that always happens to tech sa...

Unsealed internal documents show the company orchestrated a multi-year effort that duped children and their parents out of money.

When the tech giant helps Wikipedia, it’s also helping itself.

Employers flood the ranking site with 5-star postings requested from enthusiastic staffers, leading to unusual spikes, a WSJ investigation found. This is a conundrum facing many influential raters, including Amazon.com, Yelp and TripAdvisor, who have had to fend off attempts to game reviews.

Shoshana Zuboff’s “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” looks at the new power of behemoths like Facebook and Google.

Facebook’s own employees worried they were bamboozling children who racked up hundreds, and sometimes even thousands, of dollars in game charges, documents show.

Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I've called "Collection #1". Most of them won't have a tech background or be familiar with the concept of credential stuffing so I'm going to write this post for the masses

Smart TVs have never been more affordable. Turns out there's a reason for that.

Download Violentmonkey for Firefox. Violentmonkey provides userscripts support for browsers.
It's open source! <a rel="nofollow" href="https://outgoing.prod.mozaws.net/v1/c8bcebd9a0e76f20c888274e94578ab5957439e46d59a046ff9e1a9ef55c282c/https%3A//github.com/violentmonkey/violentmonkey">https://github.com/violentmonkey/violentmonkey</a>

Download View Image for Firefox. Re-implements the google image, "View Image" and "Search by Image" buttons.

tl;dr:
ads are everywhere and aren’t so fun everyone is trying to track you (for better or worse) Pi Hole is awesome; it’s a network-level adblocker and runs on a Raspberry Pi streisand gives you a quick way to set up a censorship-resistant and secure server running a number of VPNs/proxies (OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, Wireguard, and more!) you can combine them to get a secure & resilient connection with network-level ad-blocking everywhere you go (iOS/android, linux, mac OS, windows, etc.