It’s just one of the things the company is doing to protect your data.

nice read, but this news resource threw this at me :( #whyyoumakemefeelbadjezebel pic.twitter.com/Dv1yFLrbWu— Alina Cvetkova (@nuacco) February 28, 2019

The once-hyped social media company, known for gamifying mobile check-ins, is still alive and well as an incomprehensibly vast data empire.

gaslighting is telling people they're wrong about their own feelings - it's describes my experience of the app telling me congrats I'm back home with a sparkle icon when it just did something that upset me. I have no idea if it's malicious, but it's unquestionably gaslighting.— Cyd Harrell (@cydharrell) March 1, 2019

Arbetsförmedlingens generaldirektör kallas till riksdagens arbetsmarknadsutskott för att förklara det it-haveri som kan ha orsakat upp till 70 000 felbeslut.

The Elon Musk-backed nonprofit company OpenAI declines to release research publicly for fear of misuse

Researcher finds one of the databases used to track Uyghur Muslim population in Xinjiang.

Exclusive: Advertisers are collecting info that can help them skirt an Android privacy feature, according to new research.

Week 6: Blocking them all

If you’ve ever felt that your green credentials have gone unrewarded, it might be worth considering a move to the Italian city of Bologna. For six months a year, an initiative called Bella Mossa

Facebook, facing an onslaught of privacy-related controversies and a growing push for regulation, has in the last month hired three high-profile tech industry critics and commentators to beef up its privacy policy team in Washington, D.C.A Facebook spokesman said the hires, who come from Access ...

Platforms collect and analyse personal data and sell it to their customers for the purpose of targeted advertising. However, the reality is often far more complex than one may expect. Mainly, the scope and the actual use of collected data are often surprising.

The dating app knows me better than I do, but these reams of intimate information are just the tip of the iceberg. What if my data is hacked – or sold?

The year is 2019. Your mouse wants to “analyze your data” so it can advertise to you. pic.twitter.com/xtXUsVvTec— Ben Scheirman 📎 (@subdigital) January 17, 2019

We think of artificial intelligence as something that should better humanity, but user monitoring is an invasion of privacy. Facebook’s…

Facebook engaged in practices that tricked children and parents into spending money in free-to-play games, according to the publication Reveal.

These days, you’re lucky to see ANY content on a news or publication site when you land there. https://t.co/KfM1Y5NJRf— Adam Amran (@amrancz) January 26, 2019

THIS is a great mobile experience.- WE TRACK YOUR INTERACTIONS AND YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT IT.- WANT TO INSTALL OUR APP, EVEN THOUGH THIS IS YOUR FIRST VISIT?- HEY, WHY NOT READ ANOTHER ARTICLE EVEN THOUGH YOU'VE NOT EVEN SEEN THE HEADING OF THIS ONE? pic.twitter.com/QyGCD4jmeB— Per Pettersson (@per_p) January 26, 2019

A year ago I was in the audience at a gathering of designers in San Francisco. There were four designers on stage, and two of them worked…

Machine learning algorithms don’t yet understand things the way humans do — with sometimes disastrous consequences

we already live in a boring dystopia pic.twitter.com/4feoT4DWSC— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) April 29, 2018

Alec Baldwin Says Trump Tweeting About Him is

Facebook has allowed so many worst-case scenarios to come true there’s too many to count, but I’m going to try *deep breath*— Josh Constine (@JoshConstine) March 19, 2018

#Confirmshaming: one more dark pattern the web doesn't need.

An ex-YouTube insider reveals how its recommendation algorithm promotes divisive clips and conspiracy videos. Did they harm Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency?

Fitness trackers and other wearables could allow users to be identified and followed without their knowledge. Research carried out by Symantec has shown that devices that use Bluetooth LE broadcast their unique hardware address, which is similar to a MAC address, even when they are seemingly offline.

The fitness tracking app Strava released a heat map last fall showing jogging routes logged by its users around the world. But in recent days, independent military experts have noticed the map discloses the locations of one normally secretive set of fitness buffs: military personnel from the U.S. and other Western nations, deployed at sensitive … Continue reading “A popular jogging app is leaking military secrets”

The hashtag #AirbnbWhileBlack was an eye-opener regarding the lodging site and its black customers. Black users of the popular site aired their grievances about being denied stays by hosts because of their race. Although the company assured the public that racism would not be tolerated, people weren’t buying it. But two companies that started out with similar names have surfaced to give black travelers and hosts more options.

Responses from more than two million people to an internet-based survey of attitudes towards moral dilemmas that might be faced by autonomous vehicles shed light on similarities and variations in ethical preferences among different populations.