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Amazon's new privacy updates for its Alexa voice assistant are a step in the right direction, but the company still has a lot of ground to make up.

Artificial Intelligence

You Can Now Tell Alexa to Delete Everything You Said Today

By Kristin Houser

Amazon Echo Dot Kids is illegally collecting data on minors, alleges a new FTC complaint filed by a group of privacy advocates.

Amazon Alexa: Illegally Recording Kids, Privacy Advocates Allege

By Kristin Houser

Ex-Googler: Company Has “Voodoo Doll, Avatar-Like Version of You”

By Dan Robitzski

Health-focused apps can sell sensitive personal information to whomever they please, and a new study shows that many do so without telling users.

Health & Medicine

Apps to Help Quit Smoking Are Selling Your Data

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook probably didn't get the reaction it expected when it unveiled updates to its dating service: instead of clapping, the crowd sighed and groaned.

Facebook’s New Dating Feature Prompted Audible Groans

By Dan Robitzski

A new app built by Princeton researchers can monitor your smart speaker and other IoT devices to track how much of your info they're sending out.

Robots and Machines

New App Tells You When Your Smart Speaker Is Spying On You

By Dan Robitzski

Japanese ecommerce firm DeNA has equipped taxis with a facial recognition system that selects ads based on passenger gender and age.

Facial recognition

Japanese Taxis Are Using Facial Recognition to Target Ads to Riders

By Dan Robitzski

The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly considering holding Mark Zuckerberg directly responsible for Facebook's privacy scandals.

The Government Wants to Make an Example out of Mark Zuckerberg

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus just shipped tens of thousands of Touch controllers bearing hidden messages.

Hidden Messages Suggest That Facebook Sees User Privacy as a Joke

By Kristin Houser

A new Bloomberg piece shared the experiences of Amazon workers tasked with listening to Alexa recordings, and what they hear isn't always mundane.

Amazon Workers Listen to Your Alexa Conversations, Then Mock Them

By Kristin Houser

Chicago is tracking teenagers who are awaiting trial with ankle monitors that can be used to call and record them at any time.

Chicago is Making Teens Wear Ankle Monitors That Record Audio

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

By Dan Robitzski

A Wall Street Journal investigation reveals that several popular health tracking apps send data to Facebook without ever asking or informing users.

Those Health Apps Send Your Biometric Data Straight to Facebook

By Dan Robitzski

During a recent interview with law professor Jonathan Zittrain, Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly insisted against all evidence that Facebook promotes privacy.

Mark Zuckerberg Insists That Facebook Promotes Privacy

By Dan Robitzski

Earlier this month, Google inadvertently revealed that its home security device, Nest, contained a secret microphone. Now it says secrecy was a "mistake."

Google: Secret Nest Microphone “Never Intended to Be a Secret”

By Dan Robitzski

The Bangladeshi government is scrubbing the internet of porn. But it's also monitoring people's personal social media accounts for provocative images.

Bangladesh Declares “War on Pornography,” Blocks TikTok

By Dan Robitzski

When employers provide fitness trackers, they're privy to all sorts of private medical information that they can potentially use to determine layoffs.

Health & Medicine

Bosses Are Spying on Employees With Work-Provided Fitness Trackers

By Dan Robitzski

Apple Patented Facial Recognition to Unlock Your Car

Facial recognition

Apple Patented Facial Recognition to Unlock Your Car

By Dan Robitzski

Expert: AR Will Let Hackers Steal “Deep Psychological Data”

Virtual Reality

Expert: AR Will Let Hackers Steal “Deep Psychological Data”

By Foster Kamer

San Francisco has a new "big data" approach to coordinate housing for its homeless population. It could help a lot of people, but compromises their privacy.

San Francisco Built a System to Track Homeless People

By Dan Robitzski

A San Francisco Board of Supervisors member proposed to ban facial recognition outright, calling for an approval process for any future surveillance tech.

San Francisco Is Considering a Ban on Facial Recognition

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that quitting Facebook will make you spend more time with family and friends, be less politically polarized, but know less about the news.

Study: Quitting Facebook Makes You Less Politically Polarized

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.

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

By Victor Tangermann

The creators of an app called SocialRecall say it can use facial recognition to scan people you meet — or even strangers — and tell you their names.

This Facial Recognition App Remembers Names so You Don’t Have To

By Jon Christian

Police in London will conduct another trial of their highly inaccurate facial recognition technology, the seventh since 2016.

Facial recognition

Denying Facial Recognition Scan Won’t Raise Red Flags, Say Police

By Kristin Houser

Privacy experts are concerned that governments could use Amazon's patented accent-detection technology to violate civil rights.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts Warn of Amazon’s Accent-Detecting Technology

By Kristin Houser

We need to do more to protect the data privacy of today's young people, who are being "datafied" from the moment they're born.

1,300 Photos of Your Kids Will Be Online Before They’re Teens

By Kristin Houser

Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, issued a dire warning of a future where facial recognition tech helps the government track civilians. He's helping it.

Microsoft President Warns Of “1984” Facial Recognition Future

By Dan Robitzski

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Big Tech Splits Over Privacy Issues, at Least on the Surface.

By Dan Robitzski

In a Shift, Apple and Amazon Say They Are in Favor of Federal Privacy Regulation

In a Shift, Apple and Amazon Say They Are in Favor of Federal Privacy Regulation

By Victor Tangermann

If users aren't comfortable with the fact that iRobot's Roomba i7+ stores a map of their floor plan in the cloud, they can opt for the e5.

Robots and Machines

Today in Dystopia: This Roomba “Remembers” a Map of Your House

By Kristin Houser

An investigative report by the Associated Press reveals that turning off location tracking doesn't actually stop Google from recording your location.

Google May Still Be Tracking You, Even If You Opted Out

By Kristin Houser

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

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

By Dan Robitzski

In Ontario, New Project Will Give Providers and Patients More Access to Health Records

In Ontario, New Project Will Give Providers and Patients More Access to Health Records

By Dan Robitzski

Washington State Is Suing Facebook And Google For Violating Election Advertisement Laws

Washington State Is Suing Facebook And Google For Violating Election Advertisement Laws

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook Accused of Giving Users’ Personal Data To Every Major Device Maker (Updated)

Facebook Accused of Giving Users’ Personal Data To Every Major Device Maker (Updated)

By Victor Tangermann

This Filter Makes Your Photos Indecipherable to Facial Recognition Software

Facial recognition

This Filter Makes Your Photos Indecipherable to Facial Recognition Software

By Dan Robitzski

Papua New Guinea Is About To Block Facebook To Curtail Hate Speech, Fake Profiles, And Porn

Papua New Guinea Is About To Block Facebook To Curtail Hate Speech, Fake Profiles, And Porn

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks, Amazon! Echo Recorded And Sent Audio To Random Contacts Without Warning

Robots and Machines

Thanks, Amazon! Echo Recorded And Sent Audio To Random Contacts Without Warning

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook Wants To Protect Your Nudes By Storing them as a “Digital Fingerprint”

Facebook Wants To Protect Your Nudes By Storing them as a “Digital Fingerprint”

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

By Dan Robitzski

Encrypted Genomic Data Means People Can Participate in Research Without Sacrificing Privacy

Encrypted Genomic Data Means People Can Participate in Research Without Sacrificing Privacy

By Dan Robitzski

Even Europe’s New Privacy Laws Can’t Regulate Facebook

Even Europe’s New Privacy Laws Can’t Regulate Facebook

By Victor Tangermann

UK Police Identified A Drug Dealer By His Fingerprints In A WhatsApp Photo

UK Police Identified A Drug Dealer By His Fingerprints In A WhatsApp Photo

By Claudia Geib

Startup’s Crazy High-Res Satellite Can See You Pick Your Nose In Traffic

Startup’s Crazy High-Res Satellite Can See You Pick Your Nose In Traffic

By Dan Robitzski

Apps Are Illegally Stealing Children’s Privacy Data

Apps Are Illegally Stealing Children’s Privacy Data

By Dan Robitzski

When Can Law Enforcement Look at Your Devices? A Definitive List

When Can Law Enforcement Look at Your Devices? A Definitive List

By Claudia Geib

Court Orders Google to Remove Results for Man’s Criminal Record Under “Right to be Forgotten”

Court Orders Google to Remove Results for Man’s Criminal Record Under “Right to be Forgotten”

By Dan Robitzski

Hearings Show Congress Doesn’t Understand Facebook Well Enough To Regulate It

Hearings Show Congress Doesn’t Understand Facebook Well Enough To Regulate It

By Victor Tangermann

While Mark Zuckerberg Testified Before Congress, Senators Introduced Legislation That Would Finally Rein Facebook in

While Mark Zuckerberg Testified Before Congress, Senators Introduced Legislation That Would Finally Rein Facebook in

By Alexandra Ossola

Facebook Sought Medical Data. Yes, This Should Raise Red Flags.

Facebook Sought Medical Data. Yes, This Should Raise Red Flags.

By Claudia Geib

With GDPR Decision, Zuckerberg Proves Yet Again He Has Learned Absolutely Nothing From the Cambridge Analytica Scandal

With GDPR Decision, Zuckerberg Proves Yet Again He Has Learned Absolutely Nothing From the Cambridge Analytica Scandal

By Victor Tangermann

If You Jaywalk in China, Facial Recognition Means You’ll Walk Away With A Fine

If You Jaywalk in China, Facial Recognition Means You’ll Walk Away With A Fine

By Claudia Geib

Don’t Just Delete Facebook — Delete Well

Don’t Just Delete Facebook — Delete Well

By Lou Del Bello

The Government Wants To Share Your Health Data. That’s Not A Terrible Idea.

Health & Medicine

The Government Wants To Share Your Health Data. That’s Not A Terrible Idea.

Facebook Updated Its Privacy Settings! And It Is a Huge Deal!*

Facebook Updated Its Privacy Settings! And It Is a Huge Deal!*

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook’s Phone-Scraping “Scandal” Just Shows How Little We Trust the Company

Facebook’s Phone-Scraping “Scandal” Just Shows How Little We Trust the Company

By Claudia Geib

The ACLU Demands To Know How TSA Is Screening Your Electronics

The ACLU Demands To Know How TSA Is Screening Your Electronics

By Claudia Geib

Geek Squad Has Been Passing User Data to the FBI

Geek Squad Has Been Passing User Data to the FBI

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Facebook Wants a Robot to Be Your Personal Photographer

Amazon Takes Photographic Proof of Delivery. What Could Go Wrong?

Amazon Takes Photographic Proof of Delivery. What Could Go Wrong?

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

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

By Kristin Houser

A New Law Could Force Tech Companies to Turn Over Personal Data Across Borders

A New Law Could Force Tech Companies to Turn Over Personal Data Across Borders

By Kristin Houser

The House Has Voted. They Will Allow Warrantless Surveillance.

The House Has Voted. They Will Allow Warrantless Surveillance.

By Kristin Houser