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Unroll.me Settles With FTC for Rifling Through Its Users’ Email Inboxes to Find Receipts

Email cleanup service Unroll.me has settled with the Federal Trade Commission and must delete information it gathered from some consumers after it was revealed the firm was mining and selling data from users’ inboxes, the agency announced on Tuesday. In 2017, the New York Times revealed that once Unroll.me—which was supposed to help users unsubscribe…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Dec 17

Apple Explains What’s Going On With Its Big Location Services Mystery

Well, well, well. After failing to address a KrebsOnSecurity report that a location icon appeared in the status bar of an iPhone 11 even after all individual location and service settings have been disabled—giving the appearance that the device was sharing location data without a user’s consent—Apple has finally surfaced with an explanation. Apple told…

Tech News Catie Keck Dec 5

Google Reportedly Amassed Private Health Data on Millions of People Without Their Knowledge

Google has tapped a partnership with a prominent healthcare services company to advance its healthcare software services offerings. But a new report alleges the data being used for the project comes from the health records of tens of millions of people who have no idea their data is being used by Google for this purpose.…

Tech News Catie Keck Nov 11

The Case for Storing Humanity’s Most Important Data on Glass Drink Coasters

It sounds a bit ridiculous at first. Dozens of gigabytes of data can now be encoded on a virtually indestructible glass hard drive that’s the size and shape of a drink coaster. Microsoft just revealed a proof of concept. It’s a thin square of glass that’s been laser-etched with microscopic geometric shapes called “voxels” that…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Nov 4

AT&T’s New ‘Unlimited’ Plans Have Wildly Different Data Caps

At this point, no one should be surprised when a new cellphone plan branded with the word “unlimited” is anything but. And yet, AT&T’s three new plans have figured out a new way to abuse the definition of unlimited even further. Starting on Sunday, November 3, AT&T will roll out its Unlimited Starter, Unlimited Extra,…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Oct 30

You Are Probably Too Old for Instagram’s New Threads App

Oh look, another Facebook app no one needed. The social media giant announced Thursday that it’s rolling out a new app from Instagram called Threads. A standalone app, Threads will pull from a user’s Instagram close friends list. According to a blog post about the “camera-first messaging app,” Threads will allow users to share photos…

Social Media Catie Keck Oct 3

WeWork Is Exposing an ‘Astronomical Amount’ of Data on Poorly Protected Wifi Network

It turns out WeWork’s dicey wifi problem is exactly as bad as suspected. Just a month after a report surfaced alarming security risks associated with the wifi offered at WeWork locations, an investigation from CNET has illustrated just how serious those security holes can be. The outlet reported it was able to review wifi scans…

Tech News Catie Keck Sep 19

Airbus Testing New System to Collect Data on Everything From Bathroom Breaks to Beer Preference

Your flight could soon be keeping tabs on everything from your preferences for in-flight snacks to the length of your bathroom trips. Airbus announced this week that it’s started testing a new system to more closely monitor the in-flight experience—including bathroom breaks and passenger preferences—a process that will help streamline service for flight crew and…

Tech News Catie Keck Sep 13

Exposed Server Contained Phone Numbers of Hundreds of Millions of Facebook Users

Facebook is staring down yet another security blunder, this time with an incident involving an exposed server containing hundreds of millions of phone numbers that were previously associated with accounts on its platform. The situation appears to be pinned to a feature no longer enabled on the platform but allowed users to search for someone…

Social Media Catie Keck Sep 4

YouTube Decides It’s a Good Time to Get Its Shit Together

Following the fiasco over YouTube’s serving ads to kids, the company may be readying to end targeted ads on videos aimed at children—a move that, when taken together with other recent measures, would indicate that at least on some fronts, YouTube is getting its shit together. Citing three sources familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported…

Tech News Catie Keck Aug 21

Facebook Begins Rolling Out New Tool to See Which of Its Data Pals Are Monitoring You

As Facebook works to undo the damage of years of user data scandals—ostensibly with an overhauled focus on “privacy,” or something—part of that effort has involved rolling out features geared at greater transparency that, quite frankly, should have been introduced years ago. But here we are. Facebook announced in a blog post on Tuesday that…

Social Media Catie Keck Aug 20

Capital One Really Dragged Its Ass on the Anti-Hack Stuff: Report

Ahead of a massive data breach that exposed the personally identifiable information of more than 100 million people, a new report claims, Capital One may have failed to take measures to better detect potential hacks—which, from where now stand, seems like a pretty big misstep. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal…

Privacy & Security Catie Keck Aug 16

Accused Capital One Hacker May Have Breached Over 30 Other Organizations

The Capital One data breach is believed to have exposed the personally identifiable information of more than 100 million customers in both the U.S. and Canada. But a new court filing claims the alleged hacker behind the breach, Paige Thompson, may have stolen data from more than 30 other organizations. A memorandum filed Tuesday ahead…

Tech News Catie Keck Aug 15

Southwest Airlines Publicly Tweeted a Passenger’s Personal Flight Number—and Then Doubled Down

When it comes to getting a customer service issue resolved as quickly as possible, publicly tweeting at a company can be quite effective. You’d certainly hope, however, that the company wouldn’t respond by publicly sharing your sensitive data—as Southwest Airlines recently did on Twitter. Ars Technica first reported on the privacy violation experienced this week…

Tech News Catie Keck Aug 9

New Bill Would Give Voters the Right to Know What Data a Political Campaign Has About Them

The Cambridge Analytica scandal around the 2016 U.S. presidential election remains one of the most astonishing revelations of not only the breadth of data social networks collect about us and our friends but how this data can be used to psychologically manipulate us. It was an unsettling insight into how what seems like harmless hanging…

Privacy & Security Melanie Ehrenkranz Aug 1

Researchers Reveal That Anonymized Data Is Easy To Reverse Engineer

Merely existing in the modern world means giving up a wealth of your information to countless institutions and services. While many of the places make promises to keep your identifiable data as secure and private as possible, they can still—and oftentimes do—share anonymized versions of your data to third parties, whether that’s for research or…

Privacy & Security Melanie Ehrenkranz Jul 23

The Weather Machine Reveals How the Forecast Is Made—and Why It’s Now Threatened

The weather forecast is one of the most ubiquitous things in our daily lives. People talk about it when there’s nothing else to say, farmers from the Midwest to Mali use it to decide when to plant crops, and everyone loves to (wrongly) complain when it screws up. But as smartphones have put the forecast…

Earth Science Brian Kahn Jul 5

Google Starts Rolling Out Options to Auto-Delete Web & App, Location Histories Every Few Months

Google has begun rolling out features first announced in May that will allow users to set a time limit after which the giant will automatically delete location history rather than continue to hoard it forever, per TechCrunch. Another feature to do the same with web and app histories also appears to have launched. To turn…

Tech News Tom McKay Jun 27

Minneapolis Police Officer Awarded $585,000 in Suit Over Abuse of State Driver’s License Database

Minneapolis police officer Amy Krekelberg won $585,000 in a jury verdict this week, including $300,000 in punitive damages, after suing the city and two officers over unauthorized access to a government database of driver’s license information, Wired reported. The verdict originates in a 2013 incident in which a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources employee was…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Jun 23

Facebook Launches App That Pays Users for Data—Reminding Us What We Give Away for Free

You know what Facebook needs? More of your data. Despite already generating a dumb amount of revenue per individual user thanks to the information they freely share of Facebook’s suite of apps, the data glutton appears eager to pay for some of the valuable information about them that it doesn’t already have. Facebook unveiled the…

Social Media Catie Keck Jun 12

Unroll.me Settles With FTC for Rifling Through Its Users’ Email Inboxes to Find Receipts

Apple Explains What’s Going On With Its Big Location Services Mystery

Google Reportedly Amassed Private Health Data on Millions of People Without Their Knowledge

The Case for Storing Humanity’s Most Important Data on Glass Drink Coasters

AT&T’s New ‘Unlimited’ Plans Have Wildly Different Data Caps

You Are Probably Too Old for Instagram’s New Threads App

WeWork Is Exposing an ‘Astronomical Amount’ of Data on Poorly Protected Wifi Network

Airbus Testing New System to Collect Data on Everything From Bathroom Breaks to Beer Preference

Exposed Server Contained Phone Numbers of Hundreds of Millions of Facebook Users

YouTube Decides It’s a Good Time to Get Its Shit Together

Facebook Begins Rolling Out New Tool to See Which of Its Data Pals Are Monitoring You

Capital One Really Dragged Its Ass on the Anti-Hack Stuff: Report

Accused Capital One Hacker May Have Breached Over 30 Other Organizations

Southwest Airlines Publicly Tweeted a Passenger’s Personal Flight Number—and Then Doubled Down

New Bill Would Give Voters the Right to Know What Data a Political Campaign Has About Them

Researchers Reveal That Anonymized Data Is Easy To Reverse Engineer

The Weather Machine Reveals How the Forecast Is Made—and Why It’s Now Threatened

Google Starts Rolling Out Options to Auto-Delete Web & App, Location Histories Every Few Months

Minneapolis Police Officer Awarded $585,000 in Suit Over Abuse of State Driver’s License Database

Facebook Launches App That Pays Users for Data—Reminding Us What We Give Away for Free

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