Privacy & Security
The security company is on the upswing of late.
Eric Rosenbach asks us to role-play.
It’s too early to say what the long-term effects of the new rules will be, but we do know it made for some great email chains.
Tech is about to find out if it’s in compliance.
A couple says their device secretly recorded a private conversation of theirs and sent it to an acquaintance.
Facebook is pushing its GDPR efforts to people outside of Europe.
“I want to take this industry down a couple notches,” Pein says of Silicon Valley.
And the ACLU is furious.
“We reject the excuse that getting the most out of technology means trading away your right to privacy.”
The “Chaos Monkeys” author, who helped Facebook develop its ad-targeting system, busts some myths on the latest Too Embarrassed to Ask.
WhatsApp, Messenger and the core Facebook apps are all getting new leaders.
The group’s first product: “Clear History,” a newly announced feature so people can opt out of Facebook using their browsing history.
And, of course, they’re blaming the media.
Alphabet’s Q1 earnings are out today. It’s the first post-Cambridge Analytica report for the big tech platforms.
There’s little you can do about it.
“I believe data — your own data — is yours.”
They’re grown-ass men.
Recode’s Kurt Wagner and The Verge’s Casey Newton recap what happened when Mr. Zuckerberg went to Washington.
Mark Zuckerberg’s former pollster has the data to prove it.
Zuckerberg says Facebook needs the “right” regulation. That means defining what Facebook is.
In a tense moment, Zuckerberg balked when Rep. Frank Pallone challenged him with a simple “yes/no” on privacy.
It turns out cryptocurrencies and blockchains have a few problems.
“We care about the user experience. And we’re not going to traffic in your personal life,” said Cook.
Recode’s Kara Swisher, Teddy Schleifer and Kurt Wagner explain some of this week’s biggest stories.
The company is closing off vulnerable loopholes to third-party apps — including some that seem long overdue.
Facebook sells ads to make its service free. “I don’t think at all that that means that we don’t care about people.”
These are cosmetic changes, but they might help Facebook appease regulators.
“I promise to do better for you,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg says in the ads.
“I think we let the community down, and I feel really bad and I’m sorry about that,” he said.
“We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can’t then we don’t deserve to serve you.”
Facebook’s CEO has finally broken his silence.
Facebook expected its user data to be harvested. It just didn’t expect Cambridge Analytica to do it millions of times.
2018 could be a record, too.
Federal and state officials say there is no evidence votes were changed.
Their new paper is “Digital Deceit: The Technologies Behind Precision Propaganda on the Internet.”
A Tuesday hearing on “bug bounties” has the company back in the political hot seat.
On the latest Recode Decode, “Digital Deceit” authors Dipayan Ghosh and Ben Scott explain the “fundamental flaw” in the digital economy that must be fixed.
The program allows intel agencies to collect communications from foreigners who are overseas.
A new bill introduced today would give the government more power to police credit-reporting agencies.
“Security is the core of what we do. The integrity of the data is the integrity of our company.”