Internet
Websites sometimes hide how widely they share our personal information, and can go to great lengths to pull the wool over our eyes. This deception is intended to prevent full disclosure to consumers, thus preventing informed ...
Apr 17, 2024
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Security
Over the past year, the prevalence and potential dangers of deepfakes have raised concerns related to personal privacy, business ethics and even election interference.
Apr 8, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Inspired by the medical bay of the USS Enterprise from "Star Trek," a research team from the University of Waterloo uses radar technology to monitor people's health while at the wheel, turning an ordinary car or truck into ...
Mar 26, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
When people learn things they should not know, getting them to forget that information can be tough. This is also true of rapidly growing artificial intelligence programs that are trained to think as we do, and it has become ...
Mar 22, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
Concerns about the threats TikTok poses to privacy and liberty were raised again, as a bill to divest TikTok of its Chinese ownership or ban it gathered steam in the United States Congress. And Canada's federal government ...
Mar 18, 2024
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Internet
Australian consumers don't understand how companies—including data brokers—track, target and profile them. This is revealed in new research on consumer understanding of privacy terms, released by the non-profit Consumer ...
Feb 27, 2024
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Internet
Kochava, the self-proclaimed industry leader in mobile app data analytics, is locked in a legal battle with the Federal Trade Commission in a case that could lead to big changes in the global data marketplace and in Congress' ...
Jan 15, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
This November, Meta rolled out a new subscription model for Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union, where they could pay a fee in exchange for an ad-free browsing experience on Facebook and Instagram. Referred ...
Dec 19, 2023
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Business
The wait could be over for internet users in the European Union keen to sign up to Threads, an Instagram app.
Dec 11, 2023
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Security
Librarians have historically taken a strong stand on protecting the privacy of their patrons. But how well they accomplish this varies widely with the size of a library, and technology has made it more difficult, according ...
Dec 8, 2023
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