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Messaging platform Discord's efforts to roll out age verification software have been nothing short of a disaster.
Data Privacy

Discord’s Verification Saga Has Devolved Into a Complete Self-Inflicted Embarrassment

By Victor Tangermann

TikTok refuses to confirm or deny that ICE is obtaining detailed information about its users via private data brokers.
Data Privacy

TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It’s Providing User Data to ICE

By Victor Tangermann

A stylized image of president Donald Trump in a suit and tie, with a pink overlay on his face and hair, set against a background featuring the Google logo's multicolored "G" on a gray grid pattern.
Data Privacy

The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics

By Joe Wilkins

Federal agents have reportedly been compiling data on protestors who haven't been charged or arrested for a crime.
Data Privacy

Immigration Officers Sweeping Protestors’ Photos, License Plates and Personal Data Into Huge Database

By Joe Wilkins

Over six million conversations with private AI chatbots were scraped and sold to data brokers for profit, according to new security research.
Data Privacy

Millions of Private ChatGPT Conversations Are Being Harvested and Sold for Profit

By Joe Wilkins

Two years after a 13-year-old girl's suicide, her parents say her phone still gets notifications from the AI bots that drove her to death.
Data Privacy

Years After a Girl’s Death, the AIs That Killed Her Are Still Sending Notifications to Her Phone

By Sharon Adarlo

The Centre for Social Justice in the UK has estimated that about 814,000 children ages three to five have access to social media.
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Researchers Concerned to Find That Five-Year-Olds Are Already Deeply Hooked on Brain Rot Content

By Sharon Adarlo

A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
Data Privacy

Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man’s Meta Smart Glasses on Subway

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's Sora 2 easily allows teenagers to generate videos of school shootings and other harmful content, despite repeated claims of safety.
Data Privacy

OpenAI’s Sora Is Letting Teens Generate Videos of School Shootings

By Sharon Adarlo

Man Loses Password to Chip Embedded Inside His Body
Data Privacy

Man Loses Password to Chip Embedded Inside His Body

By Sharon Adarlo

Busy parents are increasingly turning to OpenAI's ChatGPT for child rearing advice, medical information, and to entertain their kids.
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Parents Using ChatGPT to Rear Their Children

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers found that OpenAI's browser, Atlas's omnibox, is extremely vulnerable to serious prompt injection attacks.
Data Privacy

Serious New Hack Discovered Against OpenAI’s New AI Browser

By Victor Tangermann

One man's robot vacuum was constantly communicating with its manufacturer, sending a detailed 3D map of his house halfway across the world.
Data Privacy

Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

By Joe Wilkins

Using an $800 consumer satellite dish, researchers were able to pick up text messages, industrial data, military chatter, and more.
Data Privacy

Researchers Alarmed to Discover Satellites Broadcasting Unencrypted Military Secrets

By Joe Wilkins

The ads which cannot be disabled will "strengthen" the "value" of your Family Hub fridges, according to Samsung.
Data Privacy

Samsung Announces Plans to Plaster Your Smart Fridge With Digital Advertisements

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft has abruptly paused work on AI data centers in Ohio. Could the tech giant be getting cold feet about over-investing in the tech?
Data Privacy

Microsoft’s Huge Plans for Mass AI Data Centers Now Rapidly Falling Apart

By Victor Tangermann

A DNA helix is trapped behind a barbed wire fence.
Data Privacy

Trump Admin Announces Plans to Build Database of Migrant DNA

By Joe Wilkins

A data scientist who correctly predicted the 2020 election is betting Kamala Harris will win big over Donald Trump.
Data Privacy

Data Scientist Predicts Kamala Harris Will Win By a “Landslide” in November

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter has been selling user data to the surveillance firm Dataminr, which in turn provides real time surveillance to government agencies.
Data Privacy

Twitter Caught Selling Data to Government Spies While Complaining About Surveillance

By Frank Landymore

Leaks have revealed the locations of hundreds of people who visited the notorious private island owned by Jeffrey Epstein.
Data Privacy

Data Leak Reveals Hundreds of Visitors to Epstein’s Private Island

By Noor Al-Sibai

China's population is falling and falling -- and that's a major problem for its economic and demographic outlook.
Data Privacy

Leaked Data Shows China Is in Deep Trouble

By Sharon Adarlo

A prison phone company is in trouble with the feds after not only improperly securing its users' data, but also failing to alert them.
Data Privacy

Prison Phone Company Leaked User Data and Didn’t Tell Them, FTC Says

By Noor Al-Sibai

Japanese Government Says Employees Will Stop Saving Official Data on Floppy Disks
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Japanese Government Says Employees Will Stop Saving Official Data on Floppy Disks

By Victor Tangermann

According to a leaked document obtained by Motherboard, Facebook has no idea where the data it collects goes — or what it's even doing with it.
Data Privacy

Facebook Admits It Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Private Data

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers have been forging emergency legal requests to get personal information from both Facebook parent company Meta and tech giant Apple.
Data Privacy

Oops! Apple and Facebook Gave Personal Data to Hackers Claiming to be Police

By Victor Tangermann

New data published this week about demographics in China show the country's population may level off and then begin to shrink as families have less babies.
Data Privacy

Data Shows That China’s Population Is About to Start Actively Shrinking

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Facebook is down. Which means misinformation about the cause of the outage has hit Twitter hard, including dubious reports of a Facebook leak.
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Fact Check: Is Facebook Down Because 1.5 Billion Users’ Data Was Stolen?

By Victor Tangermann

A 2012 study co-authored by famed behavioral scientist Dan Ariely about honesty was more than likely based on falsified data, according to an investigation.
Data Privacy

Scientists Studying Honesty Used Fabricated Data

By Victor Tangermann

A developer has taken the extensive amount of data uploaded to Parler during the Capitol riots on January 6 and turned it into an interactive map.
Data Privacy

Leaked Parler Data Contains Stunning Details About Capitol Attack

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft claims Russian and North Korean hackers are trying to get a hold of COVID-19 vaccine data using brute force attacks and phishing lures.
Data Privacy

Microsoft Claims Russia and North Korea Hacked COVID Vaccine Data

By Victor Tangermann

The private equity firm Blackstone just purchased Ancestry as well as its massive databse of customers' genetic information.
Data Privacy

A Private Equity Firm Just Bought the Largest Consumer DNA Database

By Dan Robitzski

Many countries hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic are tapping citizens' phone data to track the outbreak — and enforce quarantine.
Data Privacy

A Growing Number of Countries Tap Phone Data to Track COVID-19

By Dan Robitzski

A team of cybersecurity researchers discovered a data breach in a platform used by multiple U.S. marijuana dispensaries to manage sales.
Data Privacy

30,000 Marijuana Buyers’ Personal Info Exposed in Data Breach

By Kristin Houser

A new report has found that Grindr, Tinder, and other dating apps have been covertly selling users' sensitive information to third-party companies.
Data Privacy

Researchers: Grindr and Tinder Are Selling Your Personal Data

By Kristin Houser

Someone just released a massive amount of data from Iron March, one of the most influential neo-Nazi websites in the world.
Data Privacy

Someone Published All the Membership Data From a Neo-Nazi Website

By Kristin Houser

A non-profit group called Privacy International found that mental health-focused websites in Europe are selling user data to third-party advertisers.
Data Privacy

Mental Health Sites Sell Your Psychological Data to Advertisers

By Dan Robitzski

Presidential hopeful John McAfee is missing, and according to his campaign manager, unless he's found, "secreted data" will be released.
Data Privacy

John McAfee’s Manager Threatens to Release Secret Data “Payloads”

By Kristin Houser

A decade after Google was caught wiretapping unencrypted WiFi networks with its Street View cars, a court ordered the stolen data deleted.
Data Privacy

Google to Delete Private Data Captured by Street View Cars

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft Quietly Deletes Massive Facial Recognition Database
Data Privacy

Microsoft Quietly Deletes Massive Facial Recognition Database

By Victor Tangermann

Hactivists have found a database containing details on more than 80 million U.S. households, but they have no idea who owns it.
Data Privacy

No One Knows Who Owns This Massive Database of Americans’ Info

By Kristin Houser

Senator Warren just introduced a bill that would jail executives of billion-dollar tech companies from which users' personal info gets stolen.
Data Privacy

Elizabeth Warren: If Data Gets Stolen, Throw Tech CEOs in Prison

By Dan Robitzski

A newly discovered Chinese database tracks which female citizens are "breedready," a term apparently used to signal if she is likely able to have children.
Data Privacy

Creepy Database Lists Whether 1.8M Chinese Women Are “Breedready”

By Kristin Houser

Chicago police claim data from Uber allowed them to crack their case against actor Jussie Smollett, whom they believe faked a hate crime against himself.
Data Privacy

Police: Uber Data Helped Prove Jussie Smollett Faked Hate Crime

By Kristin Houser

CA Governor Wants Tech Companies to Pay People for Personal Data
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CA Governor Wants Tech Companies to Pay People for Personal Data

By Dan Robitzski

Oregon Senator Ron Ryden introduced a new cybersecurity bill that would let the FTC impose and enforce strict cybersecurity standards for tech companies.
Data Privacy

New Bill Would Let FTC Jail Execs For Data Breaches

By Dan Robitzski

Family Tree DNA, recently celebrated as the most privacy-minded consumer genetic testing company, is now granting database access to the FBI.
Data Privacy

This DNA Testing Company Gave Its Data to the FBI

By Dan Robitzski

U.S. Prisons Are Covertly Gathering Inmates’ Biometric Voice Data
Data Privacy

U.S. Prisons Are Covertly Gathering Inmates’ Biometric Voice Data

By Victor Tangermann

TechCrunch reports Facebook is running a program that pays users ages 13 to 35 $20 in e-gift cards for access to all of their information.
Data Privacy

Facebook Got Busted Paying Teenagers $20 a Month for Private Data

By Victor Tangermann

Russian hacker groups are using old tricks with a new twist to retrieve sensitive government data. But security firms are on to them.
Data Privacy

Russian Hackers Have New Techniques to Steal Data

By Victor Tangermann

How Data Transparency Is Helping Us Build Future Cities
Data Privacy

How Data Transparency Is Helping Us Build Future Cities

By Futurism Creative

Artists rendering of an Alibaba peppercorn Snickers bar produced from big data.
Data Privacy

How Alibaba Used Big Data To Dream up a Peppercorn Snickers Bar

By Jon Christian

Investigators have charged California resident Anthony Aiello with the murder of his stepdaughter — based on her Fitbit data.
Data Privacy

Fitbit Data Helped California Police Track Down a Murder Suspect

By Jon Christian

The Santa Clara County Fire Department claims Verizon's throttling of its data impeded its ability to provide essential emergency services.
Data Privacy

Verizon Is Wrong. Throttling Emergency Responders’ Data Is Definitely About Net Neutrality.

By Kristin Houser

Pricey NYC Housing Now Has an Added Cost: Your Personal Data
Data Privacy

Pricey NYC Housing Now Has an Added Cost: Your Personal Data

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook Is Asking Banks to Share Data on Customers’ Spending Habits
Data Privacy

Facebook Is Asking Banks to Share Data on Customers’ Spending Habits

By Kristin Houser

The Digest: The UK Is Creating a Database of Citizens’ DNA and Other Biometrics
Data Privacy

The Digest: The UK Is Creating a Database of Citizens’ DNA and Other Biometrics

By Kristin Houser

The Digest: California Cracks Down on the Companies Harvesting Your Data
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The Digest: California Cracks Down on the Companies Harvesting Your Data

By Kristin Houser

Two States Are Trying To Give People Control Over Their Online Data
Data Privacy

Two States Are Trying To Give People Control Over Their Online Data

By Dan Robitzski

These NIH Experts Don’t Think Info From Genetic Databases Should Be Used in Court
Data Privacy

These NIH Experts Don’t Think Info From Genetic Databases Should Be Used in Court

By Leslie Nemo

Internal, Speculative Google Video Shows How To Globally Model Human Behavior From User Data
Data Privacy

Internal, Speculative Google Video Shows How To Globally Model Human Behavior From User Data

By Dan Robitzski

Apps Are Illegally Stealing Children’s Privacy Data
Data Privacy

Apps Are Illegally Stealing Children’s Privacy Data

By Dan Robitzski

Data From British Porn Viewers Might Be In The Hands of One Company
Data Privacy

Data From British Porn Viewers Might Be In The Hands of One Company

By Kristin Houser

Geek Squad Has Been Passing User Data to the FBI
Data Privacy

Geek Squad Has Been Passing User Data to the FBI

By Brad Jones

The Battle for Your Data: The United States vs. Microsoft
Data Privacy

The Battle for Your Data: The United States vs. Microsoft

By Kristin Houser