Vulnerability Georgia Officials Quietly Patched Security Holes They Said Didn’t Exist A ProPublica analysis found that the state was busily fixing problems in its voter registration hours after the office of Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate for governor, had insisted the
Privacy Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates To an outsider, the fancy booths at last month’s health insurance industry gathering in San Diego aren’t very compelling. A handful of companies pitching “lifestyle” data and salespeople touting jargony phrases
Privacy How to Wrestle Your Data From Data Brokers, Silicon Valley — and Cambridge Analytica Cambridge Analytica thinks that I’m a “Very Unlikely Republican.” Another political data firm, ALC Digital, has concluded I’m a “Socially Conservative,” Republican, “Boomer Voter.” In fact, I’m a 27-year-old millennial
imagebg Own a Vizio Smart TV? It's Watching You TV makers are constantly crowing about the tricks their smart TVs can do. But one of the most popular brands has a feature that it's not advertising: Vizio's Smart TVs track your viewing
Privacy Your Smart Home Knows a Lot About You How much does your smart home know about you? That was the question that Charles Givre, a data scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, set out to answer in a recent experiment. Givre has
News Verizon's Zombie Cookie Gets New Life Verizon is giving a new mission to its controversial hidden identifier that tracks users of mobile devices. Verizon said in a little-noticed announcement that it will soon begin sharing the profiles with AOL's
News First Library to Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS Email A library in a small New Hampshire town started to help Internet users around the world surf anonymously using Tor. Until the Department of Homeland Security raised a red flag. Since Edward Snowden
