Privacy Archive
Archives for October 2014


The right is convinced that Obama hacked the former CBS reporter over Benghazi. She released a video as proof.


69 percent of Americans worry that their credit cards might be hacked.


Coming soon: Business applications that take advantage of Twitter’s massive trove of data.


The strategy: Roll out 4G networks, get users hooked on apps and help customers “visualize” the data they are using.


What’s in the box?


“I would say I’m properly paranoid.”


Harvard’s HealthMap service made headlines for flagging the Ebola outbreak before the World Health Organization formally announced the epidemic.


AT&T added nearly two million customers, including 785,000 postpaid customers, as well as more than a half-million cars.


In a recent report on the app Whisper, did the Guardian cross a journalistic line?


Customers would be better off with the company’s $50-per-month plan.


Dao Nguyen, BuzzFeed’s data and growth guru, gets a big promotion -- and CEO Jonah Peretti tries redefining “publisher” in the process.




Having made “data apps” easy to build, the company is poised for its first acquisition.


There’s something oddly therapeutic about watching Tom Cruise die a thousand deaths.


Personal information, including Social Security numbers and other account data, for “a limited number of customers” was accessed.