Privacy & Security
On this live episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask, Opnwatr CEO Mary Lou Jepsen says it’s not as crazy as it sounds.
Google grabbed five major clients for its cloud business.
Chairman Pai has put the brakes on new internet privacy rules, broadband subsidies for the poor and investigations into potential network neutrality violations.
Watch out, Big Data.
Gone are the days of trashing a female exec for her “leadership skills” without taking a closer look at her personal and financial-performance metrics.
The Chinese photo filter app has taken the U.S. by storm, but security experts say it’s a privacy nightmare.
Having both the FTC and the FCC on the privacy beat provides consumers with protections for their sensitive data.
Researchers took complete control over two of the drones.
It’s all about “location intelligence.”
Former Evernote CEO Phil Libin discusses this and more with Recode’s Kara Swisher and The Verge’s Lauren Goode on Too Embarrassed to Ask.
“We have to be careful not to overstate the nature of the conflict here.”
Focus is a free app that blocks ads and cookies and doesn’t store where you’ve been.
U.S. Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil says the numbers about policing and excessive force point to a big problem in the dispatch system.
“We don’t call that a revolving door, we call it being a citizen,” Patil says on Recode Decode.
The attitudes, concerns and practices of 13-year-olds are, as you might imagine, quite different from those of 35-year-olds.
But that’s easy to obtain.
Apple can tell them who you’ve tried to ping.
It’s not just your Yahoo account that’s vulnerable.
At least according to Europe’s Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager.
A unique advantage.
The chip giant is betting that machine learning is going to be a big deal in the data center.
Qualcomm, Intel and Dell are among the companies moving toward enabling vertical-specific IoT solutions.
“We’ve consistently chosen comfort and better decisions, better and more valuable products, over our sense of privacy.”
Technology and the data it creates call for a much clearer set of laws and guidelines — a Digital Bill of Rights — to ensure that individuals’ best interests are being defended.
“Differential privacy” is Apple’s way of collecting data without being totally creepy.
After the 2011 hit “Moneyball,” every major league front office employs a data-driven strategy to assemble their rosters.
The automaker is going from customer to part-owner.
An update to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
Apple engineers pull back the curtain on iPhone security.
No proof that the agency still needs Apple’s help, the company says.
Tom Wheeler’s plan for “unlocking” the humble set-top box sounded too good to be true. And it was.
The company says secrecy demands have become the norm when the federal government demands customer data.
What a former Google’s scientist’s data-driven 40-lb. weight loss can teach about business.
WhatsApp just turned on encryption for all its data.
Between 2010 and 2013, the FBI prosecuted only 10 cyberstalking cases out of an estimated 2.5 million.
“The government has now successfully accessed the data.”
The crowdfunded device by Protonet offers data security in an increasingly crowded smart home market.
Gawker probably won’t have to cough up the cash anytime soon.
“The lawyers are on our side. The facts are on our side.”
The Web publisher expected to lose, but it was hoping to avoid a huge award.