by Lee Rickwood
Facebook reports it has made dramatic improvements to its social media platform to protect people’s personal information, but the federal privacy commissioner will go to court to force Facebook to correct its privacy practices.
by Lee Rickwood
A recent report from the Canadian Senate says smart toys pose threats to our children’s personal privacy that should keep us up at night.
by Lee Rickwood
Particularly in the world of advertising and marketing, AI-enabled systems are used to analyze millions of data points about a consumer, and they learn from the careful analysis of that data in order to generate highly targeted marketing messages and very specific customer interactions.
by Lee Rickwood
Tech industry initiatives like Tech for Good and others are tackling the perceived inequities, negative impacts and outright threats posed by technology today.
By Ted Kritsonis
Keeping Facebook’s prying eyes away from not just who you are, but also what you’re doing online, is made a little easier when the right settings are in place.
By Ted Kritsonis
Now that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced public scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers, the proceedings revealed just how aimless the monolith truly is.
By Ted Kritsonis
More than just a brewing controversy, Facebook is mired in a developing scandal that casts a bright spotlight on how precarious privacy and personal data truly are on the world’s largest social network.
by Lee Rickwood
The type of information someone might want to be de-indexed or taken down is well, rather broad: from social ratings sites and revenge porn postings to arrest citations and mugshots to nasty reports about our teachers or our shopping experiences by disgruntled consumers or students.