privacy
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Hold up! Google Disabled Cookies for 30Million Chrome Users? Here’s How to Check If You Were Chosen.
It’s the beginning of the end in Google’s plan to kill cookies forever.
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Don’t Look Up: Inside the NYPD Plan’s To Surveil Labor Day Weekend Parties
Guess which group of folks are most likely to be watched?
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DC Attorney General Sues Mark Zuckerberg Over Cambridge Analytica Data
DC AG Karl Racine cites “a trove of evidence unearthed during the litigation process in the ongoing case involving Facebook” as the reason for the suit.
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Clearview AI Agrees To Restrict Its U.S. Facial Recognition Sales To Mostly Law Enforcement
The agreement comes from a May 2020 lawsuit from the ACLU claiming the company's harvesting of images violated the privacy of many.
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Lawsuit Claims NYPD Illegally Obtained DNA Samples of 32,000 people
The genetic material is stored in a “suspect index,” according to the federal lawsuit.
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Chadwick Boseman's Choice to Keep His Cancer Diagnosis Private Was Inspired by His Mother, Says His Agent
When it was announced that Chadwick Boseman had died after a years-long battle with colon cancer, many fans and peers alike were stunned to learn he’d been suffering from the terminal disease. In a recent cover story for the Hollywood Reporter honoring the late actor, Boseman’s agent Michael Green opened up a bit about just…
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Your Disdain for Facebook Messenger Is Warranted. Social Network Comes Clean About Transcribing Your DMs
Everybody hates Facebook Messenger. Since its debut in 2011, it has been accused of being clunky, intrusive and untrustworthy, while its billions of users have kicked and screamed at being bullied into having to use it. But despite its glaring flaws, it also serves as a convenient method to engage with obnoxious relatives or to…