Privacy & Security
After pushing against the technology’s use at music festivals, a digital rights group fighting facial recognition is turning its attention to colleges.
The California Consumer Privacy Act gives Californians some control over their data, but only if they know how to take advantage of it.
Typical Ring users don’t take extra steps for security. The company needs to require them.
This is only the latest controversy for the video doorbell company.
“I think Facebook is the most afraid”: an interview with former Facebook security executive Alex Stamos.
The future of police surveillance doesn’t have to be scary. But government and citizens need to step up.
Vox has a pretty typical privacy policy. That doesn’t make it great.
A video explainer on the technology that’s changing the meaning of the human face.
Recode’s new multiplatform journalism project explains and exposes the hidden consequences of tech — the good, the bad, and the complicated.
If the government wants to access your WhatsApp messages, 2020 Democrats say it needs to follow due process.
Explore the hidden risks of “sharenting” on this episode of the Reset podcast.
Election interference and government surveillance on social media are hurting internet freedoms.
The NSA surveillance whistleblower issued a scathing review of tech in his upcoming interview with Recode’s Kara Swisher.
“With no oversight and accountability, Amazon’s technology creates a seamless and easily automated experience for police to request and access footage without a warrant, and then store it indefinitely.”
Facebook versus the feds. Again.
The Facebook CEO tried to rally staff in internal staff meetings this summer.
Humans are auditing your conversations, but that’s not the same as spying.
Facebook thinks you’re okay with Facebook devices that watch you and listen to you. What if it’s right?
Your shopping habits, your family members’ names, even your salary is out there for anyone to see. But you can take back control.
Smith says it doesn’t matter if you’re not as responsible for breaking things as someone else — if you can be part of the solution, you should.
If America frames its response to Russia and China as one of “civilizational struggle,” Diamond says, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will only get stronger.
“It felt like, well, once that was done, then we’ve done what we needed to do, and we forgot to pause and think about, ethically, what was going on.”
New York state has launched an investigation into what happened at Capital One.
However, Lake says on Recode Decode, she still hopes there’s a future for retail stores that deliver an experience to visitors.
Because a $5 billion fine won’t change Facebook’s business. At all.
On an upcoming episode of Recode Decode, he told Kara Swisher that it’s time for a “national debate” about the so-called “right to be forgotten.”
One whistleblower, Christopher Wylie, changed the course of Cadwalladr’s reporting on the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Are there more people like him out there?
Bastian talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Jason Del Rey about improving the customer experience, facial recognition, and Delta employees’ attempts to unionize.
On the latest Recode Decode, MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito says we need to resist the urge to oversimplify the problems we’re solving.
On the latest Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, Weinberg explains why it’s time for Congress to step in and make “do not track” the norm.
Zuckerberg is passionate about Facebook’s products, but he has too much power and needs to give some of it up, Stamos says.
Experts explain why people are giving mixed signals about smart tech.
Making tracking cookies optional is only a half step toward privacy.
Plus: Why space will be a “trillion-dollar business.”
Angwin was fired Monday evening, and most of her staff resigned in solidarity. “I have to brush up on my coup literature,” she joked.
Nobody at Facebook actually did anything with your password. As far as we know.
Facebook blamed the issue on a “server configuration change.”
“I believe a privacy-focused communications platform will become even more important than today’s open platforms,” Zuckerberg wrote Wednesday.
J2 Global owns a portfolio of media and internet service companies that includes PCMag, Mashable, and Speedtest by Ookla.
Silicon Valley has compromised our autonomy, Zuboff says: “They can take hold of our behavior and shift it and modify it in ways that we don’t know.”