Melanie Ehrenkranz's posts

Casually browsing the web comes with the expectation that you’re probably going to be tracked by data brokers who…

The government agency known for developing wild technology like a penny-sized vacuum, enigmatic sky balloons, and a…

Early Tuesday morning, six people broke into two Apple stores in Australia by smashing the glass enclosure with a…

In May, YouTube let creators know that in the near future, all of them with more than 1,000 subscribers would see…

After searches for “suicide” on Amazon brought up a number of items to aid in causing a customer’s own death, the…

In the aftermath of yet another mass shooting in America, loved ones grieve, gun control advocates call for…

Following public outcry over workers listening to audio captured by voice assistants, Apple announced on Wednesday…

In August, Elizabeth Ann Clark sued her ex-husband Adam Matthew Clark and his new girlfriend for stalking,…

A school in northern Sweden experimented with facial recognition as a system to document student attendance, and the…

Airport security is famously dehumanizing, and reports reveal that for transgender travelers, this can be an…

Facebook showed its whole snooping ass last year during the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and Mark Zuckerberg…

European citizens may soon have protections most Americans lack: control over the use of their face recognition data.

A 39-year-old man in Oklahoma who installed home security systems for a local company was sentenced to life in…

On Monday, a 19-year-old man from Chicago was arrested after allegedly threatening to “slaughter and murder any…

There are a lot of improvements to be made on the web to make it more accessible, and a lot of that is contingent on …

Security breaches on widely used anonymous communities online threaten to out some of our most personal past-times,…

In June, Google began implementing a new policy that required companies running ads with abortion-related keywords…

In April of last year, a photo of “33-year-old,” “single” police officer named “Jason” appeared in sponsored ads…

Security researchers discovered a new form of malware that specifically targeted users of a French telecom giant.…

Facial recognition systems are still far from accurate, and yet government agencies continue to push for its…