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
