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The Kim Darroch leaks highlight how hard it is to keep any communication confidential. How can we regain our privacy?
Feeling overwhelmed by the deluge of cybersecurity news and the accompanying complex advice to fight it? You just might have security fatigue.
Gen Z appears mostly indifferent to Facebook, but they can't escape the social network; it’s their parents who are doing most of the posting.
Former FTC chief technologist Ashkan Soltani argues it's time for Silicon Valley companies to formalize and test not just their products' security, but its "abusability."
To my good friend, Steve Steveington. Thank you for your email advising me of my impending doom and destruction. I’m sorry that it’s taken me so long to reply. Work has been crazy.
Have you ever posted something incredibly beautiful and special and got no likes because almost nobody saw it, and then posted something incredibly trivial and likes started pouring in?
The messaging app owned by Facebook has become a major channel for hate speech and false stories in India. The government is demanding changes.
Facebook “has a black people problem,” according to Mark Luckie, a now-former manager of partnerships at Facebook. Luckie, whose last day at Facebook was earlier this month, just posted an internal memo he sent to his colleagues that argues Facebook is failing its black employees, as well as its black users. At Facebook, Luckie served as strategic […]
The platform has been used to disrupt elections, disseminate propaganda and promote hate. Regular users should ask if they are implicated in these failings.
The civility debate sidesteps how false assumptions about harm online, coupled with the affordances of digital media, encourage toxicity
Companies and apps constantly ask for ratings, but all that data may just be noise in the system.
Could be interesting to ask students what they think about this.
What I learned from growing up online.
With fake pages and sham accounts, the military targeted the mostly Muslim Rohingya minority group, said former military officials, researchers and civilian officials.
The philosophy of Hannah Arendt points to the banal evil beneath Facebook's many mistakes.
Jason Gargac, 32, told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he made $3,500 from the live streams, which many criticized as an invasion of privacy.
"As everything becomes a reality show, we forget that reality shows are actually staged, and we think that daily life is a reality show when it’s not."
Unless you change the settings yourself, the stuff you do on Venmo is publicly visible. “Public by Default” explores the easily accessible details of Venmo users’ lives.