Vulnerability 22 November 2018 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,
Privacy 20 July 2018 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
Privacy 30 April 2018 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
Privacy 15 November 2015 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
Privacy 21 October 2015 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
News 10 October 2015 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
News 15 September 2015 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
