The internet is so saturated with 5-Star praise—some genuine, much paid for—that it’s difficult to know which sites you can trust

Amazon's new Sidewalk protocol and Apple's experiments with ultra-wideband signal a new battleground that gets Amazon out of the house and Apple inside it

Understanding political ads and their transparency

Edward Snowden recently released his memoirs. In some parts of the Internet, this has rekindled an ancient debate: namely, was it all worth it? Did Snowden’s leaks make us better off, or did …

The practice, which the bureau says is vital to counterterrorism efforts, casts a much wider net than previously disclosed, newly released documents show.

Last week my in-laws politely but firmly asked me to set up their new HP printer. I protested that I’m completely clueless about that sort of thing, despite my tax-return-job-title of “software engineer”. Still remonstrating, I was gently bundled into their study with an instruction pamphlet, a cup of tea, a promise to unlock the door once I’d printed everyone’s passport forms, and a warning not to try the window because the roof tiles are very loose.

Online social interactions are no substitute for the real thing.

Just by downloading an app, you’re potentially exposing sensitive data to dozens of technology companies, ad networks, data brokers and aggregators.

In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.

Radar-like technology can see through walls to track movement

The new Face Match technology isn't everywhere yet, but it's always looking. Find out what's happening with your face data and what you can do to stop it.

A new feature allows Facebook users to opt out of facial recognition on the social network

Hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts have been found online. The exposed server contained more than 419 million records over several databases on users across geographies, including 133 million records on U.S.-based Facebook users, 18 million records of users in the U.K…

Websites offering mental-health tests are selling data to online advertisers, researchers say.

In a first, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that companies violated civil rights law through their use of Facebook’s targeting advertising.

Social media platforms based in the U.S. including Facebook and WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police under a new treaty between the two countries, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The FTC’s antitrust probe is giving Facebook’s competitors a chance to air complaints. One of them is Snap, where the legal team kept a dossier of ways it felt Facebook was trying to thwart competition.

The e-commerce giant overcame internal dissent from engineers and lawyers, people familiar with the move say.

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In December 2018, Privacy international exposed the dubious practices of some of the most popular apps in the world.

Sweden has fined a local authority £17,000 for using facial recognition on school students.

Brave presents new RTB evidence, and has uncovered a mechanism by which Google appears to be circumventing its purported GDPR privacy protections.

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