Russian hacker pleads guilty in massive data theft scheme
A Russian hacker has admitted to his involvement in one of the biggest thefts of consumer data from a U.S. financial institution.
Sep 24, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence has a gender bias problem—just ask Siri
Suggest to Samsung's Virtual Personal Assistant Bixby "Let's talk dirty", and the female voice will respond with a honeyed accent: "I don't want to end up on Santa's naughty list."
Sep 23, 2019
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Facebook suspends 'tens of thousands' of apps in privacy review
Facebook said Friday it suspended "tens of thousands" of apps on its platform as a result of a privacy practices review launched following a scandal involving Cambridge Analytica.
Sep 20, 2019
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Facebook CEO visits lawmakers amid push for tech oversight
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited lawmakers Thursday to discuss potential regulation of the tech industry, particularly when it comes to the collection of users' personal data on their platforms.
Sep 19, 2019
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Signing on with Apple could be safer than Facebook or Google
Most of us hate logging onto new websites and having to register and create yet another new password and screen name combination.
Sep 17, 2019
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Almost entire population of Ecuador has online data leaked
Almost the entire population of Ecuador had their personal data leaked online in a major security breach, officials and security experts said Monday.
Sep 16, 2019
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Lawmakers ask 4 big tech companies for documents in probe
Lawmakers investigating the market dominance of Big Tech on Friday asked Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple for a broad range of documents, marking a step forward in Congress' bipartisan probe of the companies.
Sep 13, 2019
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Big Tech faces a new set of foes: nearly all 50 US states
Big tech companies have long rebuffed attempts by the U.S. federal government to scrutinize or scale back their market power. Now they face a scrappy new coalition as well: prosecutors from nearly all 50 states.
Sep 10, 2019
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Explainer: How YouTube is changing what it shows kids
YouTube is changing what it shows kids.
Sep 4, 2019
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Majority of social media users are happy for their data to be used for research, study reveals
Social media users are generally positive about their personal data being used for research purposes, a study by the University of York has revealed.
Aug 28, 2019
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