Collaborate Disseminate
Google on Tuesday defended a project aimed at modernizing healthcare while giving it access to medical data of millions of people.
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Continue reading Google Healthcare Data Move Makes Some Queasy
US customs officers cannot search the computers and phones of people arriving in America unless they have “reasonable suspicion,” a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a decision praised by rights activists.
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Continue reading U.S. Customs Officers Need ‘Reasonable Suspicion’ for Searches: Judge
The allegations of spying by former Twitter employees for Saudi Arabia underscore the risks for Silicon Valley firms holding sensitive data which make the platforms ripe for espionage.
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Continue reading Twitter Spy Case Highlights Risks for Big Tech Platforms
Whistleblowers and digital pioneers have long been sounding the alarm about abuses of our privacy online.
Now, a slew of tech entrepreneurs are bidding to turn growing consciousness about the problem into a money-making industry and many showcased thei… Continue reading Tech Firms React to Netizens’ Digital Privacy Concerns
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman hosted the Central Intelligence Agency’s director Thursday, state media said, after three people were charged in the US with spying on Twitter users critical of the royal family.
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California’s attorney general on Wednesday accused Facebook of failing to provide a slew of information subpoenaed in a probe of its privacy practices begun last year in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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Continue reading California Says Facebook Impeding Privacy Probe
Leaked documents from a civil suit against Facebook show how the social network aimed to employ user data as a tool for bargaining and to manipulate competitors, NBC News reported on Wednesday.
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Continue reading Documents Show Facebook Controlling Competitors With User Data: Report
Two former Twitter employees and a third man were charged in San Francisco Federal Court Wednesday with spying on Twitter users critical of the Saudi royal family, the US Justice Department announced.
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Continue reading Three Charged in US With Spying on Twitter Users for Saudi Arabia
IBM weighed in Tuesday on the policy debate over facial recognition technology, arguing against an outright ban but calling for “precision regulation” to protect privacy and civil liberties.
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Continue reading IBM: Face Recognition Tech Should be Regulated, Not Banned
Technology has given internet giants “irresistible power” when they work in concert with governments, whistleblower Ed Snowden told the Web Summit that opened in Lisbon on Monday.
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Continue reading Snowden Warns of Web Giants’ ‘Irresistible Power’