Twitter reports a rise in government data requests
The number of government requests worldwide seeking Twitter users' data, or the removal of content, increased during the first half of 2014.
Zach Miners | 01 Aug | Read more
The number of government requests worldwide seeking Twitter users' data, or the removal of content, increased during the first half of 2014.
Zach Miners | 01 Aug | Read more
After years of cajoling their users into sharing every thought, emotion and selfie, online firms are seeing that providing more private online spaces might also be profitable.
Zach Miners | 31 Jul | Read more
Google+ was built on identity. Like Facebook, the 3-year-old social network required you to use your real name. When Google started linking Google+ to its other services, it seemed like the company was creating a Google-centric ecosystem that used your identity as a jumping off point.
Caitlin McGarry | 17 Jul | Read more
In the old days it was easy. Teach your kids to cross the road safely, stay in well lit areas and avoid contact with strangers. Do those things and life was pretty safe. But today, our children are "friends" with people they have never met and are unlikely to meet IRL (in real life – because now we speak in acronyms and initialisations rather than real words!).
Anthony Caruana | 11 Jul | Read more
Facebook said police in Greece made two arrests last week in connection with a little-known spamming botnet called Lecpetex, which used hacked computers to mine the Litecoin virtual currency.
Jeremy Kirk | 09 Jul | Read more
Facebook "purposefully messed with people's minds" in a "secretive and non-consensual" study on nearly 700,000 users whose emotions were intentionally manipulated when the company altered their news feeds for research purposes, a digital privacy rights group charges in a complaint filed with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Nancy Weil | 04 Jul | Read more
Facebook is moving to offer users a familiar trade-off: their browsing privacy in return for more targeted advertising. Those who find that no deal at all will be able to use opt-out tools, but all users will be given a little more control over the ads they see.
Peter Sayer | 12 Jun | Read more
Twitter went into crisis mode today to fix an XSS flaw in the popular TweetDeck client that has users retweeting the virus-like vulnerability against their will. Despite swift action, the exploit spread like wildfire, gaining tens of thousands of retweets in minutes, and the number is still growing.
Jim Norris | 12 Jun | Read more
Encryption is like a relationship -- both parties need to be on the same page for it to work. And Microsoft and Comcast are apparently not on Google's page.
Zach Miners | 04 Jun | Read more
DuckDuckGo, the privacy-themed search engine, has received a major redesign with enhanced search tools that could usher in a wave of new users.
Zach Miners | 21 May | Read more
Amazon, Snapchat and AT&T rank among the least trustworthy technology companies when it comes to how they handle government data requests, according to a report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Zach Miners | 16 May | Read more
Facebook's messaging application doesn't support encryption, but an open-source chat program, Cryptocat, has made it possible to chat with friends there over an encrypted connection.
Jeremy Kirk | 13 May | Read more
URL shortening service Bitly has reset all user passwords in response to being hacked.
Jared Newman | 10 May | Read more
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Zach Miners | 09 May | Read more
They spread lies. They push products you don't care about. They make unpopular people look popular. Sometimes, they take over your machine with malware.
Zach Miners | 07 May | Read more