Kashmir Hill's posts

We live in the glorious future that technophiles have long dreamed of. Almost everything can now connect to the…

Every spring, nearly 300 white nationalists convene in Burns, Tennessee for the American Renaissance Conference—and…

Last week, a sheriff’s office in South Carolina posted a pretty crazy story to its Facebook page about how…

At the end of 2018, in a dramatic series of events, lawmakers in England had a sergeant-at-arms storm to an American…

Last month, I tried to find out what Amazon learns about people who have an Amazon Rewards Visa Signature Card from…

Week 6: Blocking them all

Do Not Track is apparently dead, and Apple is now taking steps to shed itself of the failed privacy project.

Week 5: Apple

Week 4: Microsoft

Week 3: Google

Week 2: Facebook

Whenever I go out to dinner with a bunch of friends, and we split the check, multiple people wind up throwing in…

Week 1: Amazon

Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple collectively make products that we love, products that we hate (but…

The visitors started coming in 2013. The first one who came and refused to leave until he was let inside was a…

Back in 2015, a woman named Imy Santiago wrote an Amazon review of a novel that she had read and liked. Amazon…

Aleksandra Korolova has turned off Facebook’s access to her location in every way that she can. She has turned off…

Last year, I was trying to solve a mystery. Facebook’s “People You May Know” tool was outing sex workers’ real…

Back in 2015, Facebook had a pickle of a problem. It was time to update the Android version of the Facebook app, and…

Next time you’re chatting with a customer service agent online, be warned that the person on the other side of your…