Internet
While many websites offer users choices to opt out of some of their data collection and use practices, most of these choices are buried deep in the text of long, jargon-filled privacy policies and are never seen by users.
Jan 13, 2021
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Internet
The popular messaging app WhatsApp asked its some two billion users on Thursday to accept new terms that will allow it to share more information with its parent company Facebook and roll out advertising and e-commerce.
Jan 07, 2021
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Business
Karen North, a professor of social media at the University of Southern California told her two teenage kids they could have any app on their phones, with one exception.
Aug 07, 2020
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Security
An online voting system approved in three US states is vulnerable to manipulation by hackers and may not protect ballot secrecy, according to an analysis by security researchers.
Jun 08, 2020
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Business
If, before COVID-19, you were concerned about all the data that technology companies had about you, just wait. As stay-at-home orders push more professional and social activities online, it's becoming harder to remain in ...
Apr 13, 2020
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Security
As epidemiologists continue to work to track the spread of the novel coronavirus, millions of Americans are several weeks into a routine of working from home. CyLab researchers believe we're settling into a new paradigm for ...
Apr 09, 2020
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Business
Google is attempting to make sure people know exactly what they're signing up for when they use its online services—though that will still mean reading a lengthy document.
Feb 20, 2020
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Internet
We've all done it. We're updating the operating system on our mobile phone or installing an app, and we lazily skim through the privacy policy or we don't bother to read it at all before blindly clicking "I agree."
Jan 29, 2020
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Internet
Google announced a massive shift last week in how it handles cookies, those pesky digital trackers that chase us around the internet and serve up targeted ads that are both creepy yet eerily precise reflections of our wants. ...
Jan 23, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
Researchers have studied how apps' access to our personal data has changed since the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was introduced in May 2018. The study shows that apps practice less access to personal data ...
Nov 06, 2019
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