Privacy & Security
The UK’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee called Facebook a “digital gangster” — but it’s not the only group of regulators out for blood.
O’Connor thinks we’ll get a federal privacy bill this year. But she’s more concerned about the future of free speech on the internet.
McNamee was an adviser to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and helped recruit Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, but now he’s speaking out against the social giant.
If Facebook wants to keep operating in Germany, it has to make some changes, regulators say.
15 influencers weigh in on the company’s 15th birthday.
Facebook will stop its “market research” program that was paying users in exchange for their mobile data.
The fine is symbolic and it won’t leave much of a mark.
The EFF and McSweeney’s teamed up last year to produce a special edition of the quarterly magazine about the “end of trust.”
Mark Zuckerberg’s idealistic vision for Facebook has come back to haunt the company.
Between 2010 and today, Facebook shared users’ private data, including private messages and contact info, with more than 150 companies.
Facebook’s business is built on collecting and capitalizing on peoples’ personal information.
They talk with Recode’s Kara Swisher about social media, video games and how we’ll use tech differently in 2019.
NYU’s Scott Galloway makes the case for Satya Nadella as “CEO of the year” on the latest episode of Pivot.
Documents from an old lawsuit are leaking out. What is in the documents? And how damaging might they be to Facebook?
Yates talked with Recode’s Kara Swisher shortly before the midterms at the AllRaise Summit in San Francisco.
Christopher Wylie knows a bit about voter manipulation.
Clinton discusses the 2018 midterms, Monica Lewinsky, U.S.-Saudi relations, social media regulation, artificial intelligence and more with Recode’s Kara Swisher.
Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss Uber’s IPO, Apple CEO Tim Cook’s comments on privacy and more on the latest episode of Pivot.
AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky says Facebook and other tech companies should make it easy for users to temporarily opt out of data collection.
The proposed legislation offers new rules for data portability, net neutrality and more that Democrats might push for if they recapture Congress.
Facebook could improve video calls. The question is whether people will let it.
We asked CEO Mark Zuckerberg that same question.
Forced to log out of Facebook? Here’s why.
Rather than analyzing data that others have collected, Angwin says the new nonprofit will be collecting data sets about technology that don’t exist today.
“Famine by definition is large numbers of people who are starving to death. There’s no reason for that to ever happen.”
“AI Superpowers” author and former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee predicts that medicine will undergo radical changes in the next few decades.
Jones and his conspiracy-minded site Infowars have long since “blown past the bounds of common decency,” Wyden says.
A hackathon highlights the real threats malicious hackers pose to our democracy.
On this episode of Recode Decode, Mullenweg calls for a “Time Well Spent”-style movement for ads and data privacy.
Northeastern University researchers Dave Choffnes and Christo Wilson (mostly) debunk the internet’s favorite conspiracy theory on the latest Too Embarrassed to Ask.
No, Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t plan to fire himself.
Tech companies aren’t raising prices. But they’re still monopolies.
The bug affected 800,000 people and could have had serious safety implications.
He’s even wearing a tie.
Peters, the author of the seminal business book “In Search of Excellence,” says, “I weep for Santa Clara County.”
His new book, “The Assault on Intelligence,” looks at our post-truth world.
“I think [young] people are waking up to saying, ‘Okay, we need to have some rules in this new world.’ And then they look to the Congress and they said, ‘Wow, those are the folks who are going to be writing these rules?’”
A software bug messed with privacy settings for 14 million users, so here’s what you need to know.
“To this day, we still don’t actually know what data Cambridge Analytica had.”
Vox explored the possibilities of digital cash in the latest episode of our Netflix show, Explained.