New research by Global Voices tech and digital rights experts in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Pakistan and the Philippines exposes the ups and downs of Facebook's "Free Basics" app.

Fitness and health tracking devices are designed to get us to exercise more. But these digital fitness and health tracking devices can have the opposite effect, according to a study of school children, in which researcher Mikael Quennerstedt participated. The pupils felt monitored and had feelings of inadequacy.

The company, whose CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned, masterminded the dark arts of manipulative UX.

A new Facebook tool deploys facial-recognition to identify users in photos, even when they're not tagged.

You probably shouldn't be surprised.

Machine learning is vulnerable to trickery–and scientists are racing to understand why. “If we can do this, so can the bad guys,” says one researcher.

The thousands of Wells Fargo low-wage employees who defrauded customers likely knew how it felt to face unfair overdraft fees or a deteriorating credit rating. So why did they do it?

At a launch party in Chicago, Uber allegedly treated guests to the whereabouts and movements of 30 "notable" Uber users in New York in real time without those users' permission.

News that Facebook shared teens’ details with advertisers throws focus on firm’s ability to mine the data of its 2 billion users – and raises serious ethical questions

People don’t just listen to Spotify, they live it.

New research shows an alarming new way to track web users Nearly every web browser now comes with a password manager tool, a lightweight version of the same service offered by plugins like LastPass and 1Password. But according to new research from Princeton's Center for Information Technology …

Twitter has a history of cooperating with Israeli authorities.

Adobe and Intel were also faced with court case in which lawyers sought $9bn over alleged collusion

The company confirmed a longtime conspiracy theory, angering even its most devout customers.

Privacy advocates warn feds about surreptitious cross-device tracking.

Employee wellness firms and insurers are working with employers to mine data on the drugs employees use, how they shop, and even whether they vote, to predict their individual health needs and recommend treatments.

BT and Phorm will not face prosecution for trials of technology that secretly intercepted and profiled the broadband traffic of tens of thousands of people, the Crown Prosecution Service has announced.

An adult webcam site claims to be the first ever to use facial recognition technology to help users find "sex doppelgängers" of people they know. Individuals can upload photographs of anyone's face...

Here's an unusual technique for managing your workers: Put up giant TV screens everyone can see that show exactly how fast each person is doing his or her job, and make the numbers glow bright red for those who don't keep up. That might sound like a nightmare scenario from [...]

A recently discovered bug affecting cloud company Dropbox resulted in data that was supposedly deleted years ago being restored back to user accounts.

An upcoming service aims to keep a digital version of you alive for your loved ones after you die.

After ProPublica revealed last year that Facebook advertisers could target housing ads to whites only, the company announced it had built a system to spot and reject discriminatory ads. We retested and found major omissions.

Mark Zuckerberg's company is accused of intentionally 'sabotaging' its own Android app for hours at a time to see what users would do if it cut ties with Google.

In Australia pilot effort, company will ‘hash’ images, converting them into digital fingerprints that prevent any other attempts to upload the same pictures

Chris Chambers: A covert experiment to influence the emotions of more than 600,000 people. A major scientific journal behaving like a rabbit in the headlights. A university in a PR tailspin

The Silicon Valley giant says it deleted the accounts of the Chechen Republic’s tyrant — followed by 4 million people — because the U.S. government required it to do so.

Leaked documents said to describe how the social network shares psychological insights on young people with advertisers

A San Francisco-based Facebook data scientist studied HTML code on 3.7 million profiles to find that 71% of users type comments and posts but don't submit them.