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Unearthed Emails Show Google, Ad Giants Know They Break Privacy Laws
Privacy warriors have filed fresh evidence in their ongoing battle against real-time web ad exchange systems, which campaigners claim trample over Europe's data protection laws.…
Facebook decided which users are interested in Nazis—and let advertisers target them directly
Facebook makes money by charging advertisers to reach just the right audience for their message--even when that audience is made up of people interested in…
Google Displays Fake Phone Numbers For Some Local Businesses In Toronto So They Can Record Calls
A spokesperson for Google has confirmed the service they've launched in Vancouver and Toronto to connect potential customers to trusted service providers funnels customers through…
Internet Addiction Spawns US Treatment Programs
When Danny Reagan was 13, he began exhibiting signs of what doctors usually associate with drug addiction. He became agitated, secretive and withdrew from friends.…
Schools Are Locking Students’ Phones Away to Help With Concentration
After one teacher at San Lorenzo High School brought pouches, created by the tech start-up Yondr, into her classroom to lock away students' phones, the…
Facebook Pays Teens To Install VPN That Spies On Them
Since 2016, Facebook has been paying users ages 13 to 35 up to $20 per month plus referral fees to sell their privacy by installing…
Prisons Across the United States Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated People’s Voice Prints
In New York and other states across the country, authorities are acquiring technology to extract and digitize the voices of incarcerated people into unique biometric…
Americans Are Lining Up To Work For Amazon For $15 an Hour
Analysts had worried Amazon’s wage increase would cut into its profits. So far that doesn’t seem to be the case. Amazon reported $3 billion in…
Attackers Can Track Kids’ Locations Via Connected Watches
Over the last year of looking at kids GPS tracking watches we have found some staggering issues. With these devices it almost seems that having…
‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism
The behaviour of the digital giants looks rather different from the roseate hallucinations of Wired magazine. What one sees instead is a colonising ruthlessness of…
Most Facebook users don’t know that it records a list of their interests, new study finds
Seventy-four percent of Facebook users are unaware that Facebook records a list of their interests for ad-targeting purposes, according to a new study from the…
Killing tourist destinations for an Instagram photo
Overtourism is taking a toll across the globe, with closures of popular destinations in Thailand and the Philippines, and backlash from residents in cities like…
How Cartographers For the US Military Inadvertently Created a House of Horrors in South Africa
The visitors started coming in 2013. The first one who came and refused to leave until he was let inside was a private investigator named…
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.
YouTube’s Biggest Stars Are Pushing a Shady Polish Gambling Site
Untold riches are promised on Mystery Brand, a website that sells prize-filled "mystery boxes." If you buy one of the digital boxes, some of which…
Link Between Social Media and Depression Stronger In Teen Girls Than Boys, Study Says
According to a new study published in the journal EClinicalMedicine, the link between social media use and depressive symptoms in 14-year-olds may be much stronger…
“How YouTube’s Year-in-Review ‘Rewind’ Video Set Off a Civil War”
You might guess that a surefire way to make a hit video on YouTube would be to gather a bunch of YouTube megastars, film them…
It’s Getting Harder to Spot a Deep Fake Video
Fake videos and audio keep getting better, faster and easier to make, increasing the mind-blowing technology's potential for harm if put in the wrong hands.…
Several Popular Apps Share Data With Facebook Without User Consent
Some of the most popular apps for Android smartphones, including Skyscanner, TripAdvisor and MyFitnessPal, are transmitting data to Facebook without the consent of users in…
As smartphones and internet connections rise in Africa, so does entertainment streaming
Growing smartphone and internet penetration across many African countries saw global streaming companies make a deeper play for audiences here this year. Netflix signaled its…