A Big Change in NSA Spying Marks a Win for American Privacy
The charter of the National Security Agency limits its powerful surveillance to the rest of the world, not US citizens. But one […]
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Amazon’s ‘Echo Look’ Could Snoop a Lot More Than Just Your Clothes
The new Amazon Echo Look seems like a logical enough extension of Alexa, the company’s AI-powered digital assistant. Previously, Alexa lived inside […]
Uber Didn’t Track Users Who Deleted the App, But It Still Broke the Rules
Once again Uber finds itself taking heat for questionable business practices. This time the company was using software to identify iPhones even […]
How to Stop Services Like Unroll.me From Snooping on Your Gmail
The pitch has plenty of appeal: Sign up for our service, and we’ll automatically unsubscribe you from all those pesky email lists. […]
Trump & Co. Just Picked the Wrong Fight With Twitter
Christie Hemm Klok/WIRED Another week, another eruption of abuse on Twitter. This time, it was Breitbart writer and self-anointed “supervillain of the Internet” Milo Yiannopoulos, […]
If You Want a VPN to Protect Your Privacy, Start Here
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives voted to reverse regulations that would have stopped internet service providers from selling your web-browsing data […]