Vulnerability / a year ago 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 / a year ago 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 / 2 years ago 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 / 4 years ago 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 / 4 years ago 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 / 4 years ago 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 / 4 years ago 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
