For the past couple of weeks, there has been an ongoing uproar from Oura customers following the announcement of a partnership between the wearable smart ring maker, and the U.S. Department of Defense (now War) and Palantir. Much of the furor was sparked by Oura's poorly worded communication and…

Microsoft's announcement of the new AI-powered Windows 11 Recall feature has sparked a lot of concern, with many thinking that it has created massive privacy risks and a new attack vector that threat actors can exploit to steal data. Revealed during a Monday AI event, the feature is designed to help…

X has updated its T&Cs and eagle-eyed users have spotted a now sweeping rights grab that means all content can be used for training AI models. The new license includes the statement that users who post, submit, or display content on the social media platform now automatically grant the platform a…

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the ads will keep coming Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers. Ron Amadeo – Sep 7, 2023 6:35 pm | 406 Google's not looking as good as it used to. Credit: Aurich Lawson…

Image Credits:Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Security How US police use digital data to prosecute abortions Runa Sandvik 12:11 PM PST · January 27, 2023 In late April, police in Nebraska received a tip saying 17-year-old Celeste Burgess had given birth to a stillborn baby and buried the body. Officers…

ByEmily Baker-White, Forbes Staff. An internal investigation by ByteDance, the parent company of video-sharing platform TikTok, found that employees tracked multiple journalists covering the company, improperly gaining access to their IP addresses and user data in an attempt to identify whether they…

The company’s internal investigation showed that workers also obtained data on a small number of other U.S. users. The results of ByteDance’s internal investigation acknowledge the privacy and security risks that U.S. officials have been concerned about for two years. Credit...Thomas Suen/Reuters By…

Yesterday lawmakers introduced a bill to ban TikTok. But is an outright ban the right course of action, and what is the threat posed by TikTok? The Privacy Dilemma Much of the focus on TikTok has been primarily around user privacy, what data TikTok gathers, and what they do with it. I decided to…

iOS15: China exempt from Apple 'private relay' privacy feature 8 June 2021 Getty Images Apple unveiled its "Private Relay" service at its annual software developer conference Apple has announced a raft of new privacy protections at its annual software developer conference. They include a function…

Our thoughts are private – or at least they were. New breakthroughs in neuroscience and artificial intelligence are changing that assumption, while at the same time inviting new questions around ethics, privacy, and the horizons of brain/computer interaction. Research published last week from Queen…

Over the last week, there’s been a lot of conversation about Microsoft Productivity Score—a tool that helps organizations measure and manage the adoption of Microsoft 365. We’ve heard the feedback, and today we’re responding by making changes to the product to further bolster privacy for customers.…

ByRachel Sandler, Former Staff. At Microsoft’sMSFT annual Ignite conference in October, the company previewed a slick new tool called Productivity Score. During the virtual presentation, a senior product manager said the feature provides “insights that transform how work gets done” by showing…

ByJohn Koetsier, Senior Contributor. That tremor in the Force you felt yesterday probably wasn’t shock at being able to text your car keys in Apple’s new iOS 14 or do real-time offline translation with Siri. Instead, it was Apple’s shot across the bow of an $80 billion industry. The IDFA is…

Signal, the encrypted messaging app, is seeing record numbers of downloads amid the pandemic and nationwide protests. It might make sense for you, too. June 14, 2020 at 5:30 am ET Protesters held up phones outside the White House on June 3. Photo: eric baradat/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images…

A new California privacy law gives consumers the right to see and delete their data. But getting access often requires giving up more personal details. Companies ask users for more personal details before giving them their data to guard against giving it to the wrong person. By Published Jan. 15,…

You can’t stop all of it, but you don’t have to give up. Credit...Rose Wong By Published Nov. 24, 2019Updated Nov. 29, 2019 Welcome to the Smarter Living newsletter! Every Monday, S.L. editor Tim Herrera emails readers with tips and advice for living a better, more fulfilling life. Sign up here to…

The smart TVs in our homes are leaking sensitive user data to companies including Netflix, Google and Facebook even when some devices are idle, according to two large-scale analyses. Researchers from Northeastern University and Imperial College London found that a number of smart TVs, including…

Funding online content with small consumer payments rather than intrusive and privacy-compromising ads has for years been a goal for many internet theorists and publishers. “We’re at a point where it’