Privacy & Security
Clear CEO Caryn Seidman Becker answers all your privacy questions on the latest Too Embarrassed to Ask.
Think like nobody’s strapping a band around your head to collect information about your thinking.
It’s refreshing to see Facebook take action on a problem that is unintentionally spread on its platform — but it’s not enough.
Democratic lawmakers want the company to offer more information about the data it’s collecting, and why.
Rousseau is No. 94 on the Recode 100.
Smith is No. 66 on the Recode 100.
McKinnon is No. 42 on the Recode 100.
The questions — sent by Democrats and Republicans alike — could carry severe legal repercussions for Uber.
Regulators around the country are questioning Uber for staying silent after the hack, which affected 57 million people.
The ride-hail company has fired two people who were in charge of handling the response to this hack.
Yes, that’s his real job title.
1Password’s Jeffrey Goldberg answers your questions about security and password management on Too Embarrassed to Ask.
The Senate Commerce Committee convenes its hearing at 10 am ET today.
The key to in-home commerce is more trust, not more tech.
So she’ll testify at a Tuesday hearing after all!
But 5 percent of Prime subscribers would definitely buy an Amazon Key.
The commerce giant’s power in search is growing, thanks to Alexa, Recode’s Jason Del Rey says.
It fears regulation after the major cyber intrusion at Equifax, revealed this September.
Security researcher Brian Krebs joins us on the latest episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask to explain what happened — and what happens next.
A 2013 breach affected all three billion of Yahoo’s users, more than three times what it initially believed.
Last week, Twitter turned over RT ads to congressional investigators
Former CEO Richard Smith apologized for the breach.
Consumer Reports CEO Marta Tellado joins us on the latest Too Embarrassed to Ask to discuss.
It’s reached $18.2 billion so far this year.
CEO Anne Wojcicki explains the DNA testing company’s privacy protections on the latest Too Embarrassed to Ask.
Věra Jourová, an EU commissioner, is paying the Valley a visit.
Meanwhile, New York announces its own investigation.
Social Security numbers and other information has been compromised, the company says.
In a new amicus brief, tech and telecom companies say law enforcement should have to clear a higher bar to obtain location data.
In a settlement, Uber will have to submit to 20 years of privacy checkups.
The threat landscape has changed so dramatically, so fast that it has outpaced previously sound security practices.
Hackers have reportedly stolen seven times as much data from the network as was stolen in the 2014 Sony hack.
Electronic devices are getting smaller and more energy-efficient.
And they’ll introduce a bill on Tuesday, they told Recode, to try to fix it.
Miller left Didi after just four months.
They’re introducing a new bill that seeks to update a 1986 privacy law that predates most tech companies.
“It will take the attention of the free society that built the internet to save it.” —Alexander Klimburg
The forces governing business today might just come down to understanding the difference between “weapon” and “tool.”
The ransomware is linked to a leaked vulnerability originally kept by the National Security Agency.
General counsel Kent Walker is advocating a new approach.