On TikTok, Teens Meme Life360, the Safety App Ruining Their Summer
Spend enough time on the social media app TikTok, and you’re bound to see a Life360 meme. That’s because Life360, a location-sharing […]
Tag: Security / Privacy
The Window to Rein In Facial Recognition Is Closing
In the wake of jarring revelations about how United States law enforcement agencies have deployed facial recognition, Congress seemed, for a moment, […]
How to Protect Our Kids’ Data and Privacy
YouTube is currently under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission following complaints that the platform improperly collected data from young users. It’s […]
Airport Facial Recognition, How Abusers Exploit Basic Apps, and More News
Stalkers have ways of tracking you even without fancy malware, airport facial recognition is becoming more common, and WIRED has some advice […]
The Simple Way Apple and Google Let Domestic Abusers Stalk Victims
One morning a couple of weeks ago, I handed my iPhone to my wife and asked her to help with a privacy […]
I Scraped Millions of Venmo Payments. Your Data Is at Risk
Like many people, I use Venmo to pay for stuff: to split the check at dinner, to send my roommate my portion […]
He Cyberstalked Teen Girls for Years—Then They Fought Back
For years, Belmont, New Hampshire, had only one detective: Raechel Moulton. An old mill town of 7,200 people, Belmont is surrounded by […]
The Internet Has Made Dupes—and Cynics—of Us All
Online fakery runs wide and deep, but you don’t need me to tell you that. New species of digital fraud and deception […]
Cop Gets $585K After Colleagues Snooped on Her DMV Data
In 2013, Amy Krekelberg received an unsettling notice from Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources: An employee had abused his access to a […]
The Next Big Privacy Hurdle? Teaching AI to Forget
When the European Union enacted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) a year ago, one of the most revolutionary aspects of the […]