Richard Nieva | cNet | Source URL From 550 feet in the air, Google’s Scott Huffman peers down at the Las Vegas skyline. It’s a sunny afternoon in early January and, at the moment, Google owns this town. The search giant has come here for a marketing blitz at CES, the […]
Rob Beschizza | BoingBoing | Source URL Regulators in Germany ruled that Facebook must cut the data it gathers about people who aren’t using its app or website or get their consent. Facebook says it intends to appeal the ruling. The watchdog has carried out a probe into the social […]
Caroline Haskins | Motherboard | Source URL Documents obtained by Motherboard using public information requests verify previously unconfirmed police department contracts with predictive policing company PredPol. The use of PredPol—a predictive policing software that once advocated for a controversial, unproven “broken windows” approach to law enforcement—is far more widespread than […]
Annie Palmer | The Daily Mail | Source URL A shocking new report has found hundreds of bounty hunters had access to highly sensitive user data – and it was sold to them by almost every major U.S. wireless carrier. The practice was first revealed last month and, at the […]
