Digital Ethics

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

I have spent the past seven months gravely concerned for my future. With the imminent repeal of the Affordable Care Act and the subsequent massive cuts to Medicaid, my ability to receive the necessary supports to live and work in my community is at great risk. This will place me further at harm.

Samsung's SmartTVs are transmitting your voice commands to a third party.

Here's why these attacks present a much higher risk for civilian casualties and provoke significant anti-U.S. sentiment.

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

More than half of the selfies uploaded on Chinese social media are believed to have been edited using apps made by just one company. Meitu, which

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

The Roomba is generally regarded as a cute little robot friend that no one but dogs would consider to be a potential menace. But for the last couple of years, the robovacs have been quietly mapping homes to maximize efficiency. Now, the device’s makers plan to sell that data to smart home device manufacturers, turning the friendly robot into a creeping, creepy little spy.

A new Facebook Live show lets users vote to kill or save someone else’s relationship

Just in time for the new season of Black Mirror, another report of a company using smartphones to listen in on users has surfaced. The New York Times reported t...

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 …

Canadian manufacturer We-Vibe collected data about temperature and vibration intensity, revealing intimate information without customers’ knowledge

A researcher finds more than 460 models have the hidden software pre-installed.

A case of a mistaken counterfeit leaves woman without cash or the pre-WWII item

Has any other company had a more batshit year than Uber? In lieu of a traditional report card, I briefly considered just copying and pasting text from the Book of Revelation into this article....

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.

Dopamine Labs aims to give any app the same addictive power that Facebook, Zynga and others have spent millions to perfect. Now, armed with $1 million in seed funding and some initial data that they’re experiments in mind control actually work, Dopamine Labs is spending money to boost its staff and sales and marketing efforts to bring more apps in on its brain science.

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

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...

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

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

Angry users assailed Slice Intelligence and its service Unroll.me, which scans email inboxes, after it was reported that Uber had used the company’s data.

Privacy advocates warn feds about surreptitious cross-device tracking.

Uber is taking down blog posts that show how it tracks users' one-night stands -- and the prevalence of prostitutes in your favorite pick-up location.

German request for data audit reveals the web giant 'accidentally' stored payload information from open networks

Sixteen-year-old Sarah* shoved the computer away. “I’m not doing this,” she said, shifting her disdain between the counselor and the online course in ...