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Leslie Knope just battled a tech company who looks a lot like the data-miners of today.
The concern of many parents regarding their children's online habits tend to relate to hazardous behaviors, ranging from the disclosure of personal information on public forums and revealing feelings to strangers, to face-to-face meetings with strangers. Parents, naturally, want to prevent such precarious behaviors to the degree possible without infringing on their teens' feeling of independence.
Most analysts and commentators agree that 2014 was the year mobile reached a tipping point. With over 1 billion mobile smartphones in circulation, 2014
A panel at Digital Book World last week offered several insights on how ebook platforms are analyzing user data and what they have discovered.
In the long run, the most memorable event of 1989 will probably be that Tim Berners-Lee hacked up the HTTP protocol and named the result the "World Wide Web." Tim
In a new paper from Pew, experts warn that surveillance-free spaces are disappearing.
As we near the turn of the year into 2015, organizations should keep an eye on laws taking effect on the West Coast. This year, the crop of new privacy
The smart city is, to many urban thinkers, just a buzzphrase that has outlived its usefulness: ‘the wrong idea pitched in the wrong way to the wrong people’. So why did that happen – and what’s coming in its place, asks Steven Poole
A Hack Education Project
Google is not among the companies directly backing Microsoft in its fight over foreign data privacy.
Museums are mining detailed information from visitors, raising questions about the use of Big Data in the arts.
Security researchers recently discovered a serious flaw in Yik Yak, the "anonymous" messaging app popular with teens. In surprisingly simple fashion, the flaw offered hackers a way to discover the identities of Yik Yak's supposedly unnamed users. It also provides a good opportunity to issue this very important PSA:…
We need to reexamine how we talk about privacy. It’s hard to go a day right now without seeing a major article addressing privacy concerns—be it about personal financial data; the ability to track student progress and report it to parents, teachers, or advisors; new Facebook settings; the stalled USA Freedom Act; and so on. The alarm has been sounded, but the prevailing lack of response is still unnerving.
Nathan Ringo writes that school administrators freaked out when he found ways around the district’s flawed censorware–and when he warned his fellow students about the spyware and creepy…
Don't want your home address or other personal info published to the world? This weekend, take an hour or two to make yourself a less visible target.