Privacy & Security
Doug Merritt, a senior VP, will take the helm.
The fine print is key, though.
How will candidates courting Silicon Valley deal with the encryption vs. privacy question?
Billions of songs a month means lots of information about who listened, when and where.
What do bacon, oil, tsunamis, exhaust, deluges, nuclear waste and teenage sex have in common?
If BlackBerry is to stay in the phone business, it needs the new Android slider phone to be a success.
The two companies are studying a plan to raise cash with an IPO of the EMC-owned big data software firm.
Big Blue will license back its weather data to the TV channel, which is not part of the deal.
Project Fi starts at $20 per month for voice and text, and then charges users $10 for each gigabyte of cellular data they need.
A report from the analytics firm SourceDNA found 256 apps using a third-party advertising tool that harvested personal information and sent it off to its own servers.
The company plans to build a privacy-protecting film layer into mainstream business PCs by the middle of next year.
Americans have long been ignoring European data protection law, but it has not been ignoring us.
Ordinary Germans are taking Europe’s worst immigration crisis into their own hands — and facing imprisonment.
Unlimited data will now start at $70 per month, not including the cost of the phone. Of course, AT&T and Verizon no longer even offer such plans.
Mobile companies need to be able to serve up ads that do more than recommend other apps to install. That, says Cheetah Mobile’s CEO, demands big-data expertise.
Data collection is anonymous and used to improve the product.
A Google-y startup with a novel approach to big data.
OPM has just admitted that 5.6 million fingerprint records have been stolen, five times the number previously acknowledged.
The bill would forbid drones from flying below 350 feet without express permission of the property owners below.
Ashley Madison’s hackers may have been disgruntled insiders.
Hackers appear to have released data on users of the controversial cheaters’ dating site Ashley Madison.
A change atop the newest member of the EMC federation.
Forcing users to stick to their real names violated their privacy rights, says watchdog agency.
After security researchers demonstrated they could hack into a Jeep Cherokee from miles away, its manufacturer is upgrading the vehicle’s software.
The proposed ballot intiative will go to a vote in November.
Hackers can gain access to the internal networks of late-model vehicles, then tamper with the brakes and transmission.
Making it easier for E.T. to phone home.
The plaintiffs “managed something somewhat unusual: they pled themselves out of a case.”
The analytics of IoT has many people salivating over the potential of what it can do, without necessarily looking at the reality of what it has actually achieved.
The trial probably won’t start till next year.
The goal of the 24-hour programming competition, judged by a three-person panel, is to build an app that advances “liberty and privacy.”
In a hyperautomated world, here’s a look at how your data will become your digital identity.
The check’s in the mail? Try again. Peer-to-peer payment apps like Venmo and Square Cash mean no more excuses.
That one is just the beginning.
The company aims to make analyzing data easy.
The secret is not just “big” data, but “right” data.
Regulators accuse the social network of tracking both users and non-users.