New class-action lawsuits have been filed against major US cellphone carriers AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint in US District Court in Maryland due to the real-time “collection of geolocation data and the unauthorized dissemination to third-parties of the geolocation data collected from its users’ cell phones.
Facial recognition technology may have some concerning side effects. An MIT report found bias in Amazon’s popular facial recognition system.
The ACLU lawsuit claims that what little information exists has been confined to “scattered news accounts”; what they do know is described as “very troubling.”
For the first time in memory, previously unassailable companies found themselves squarely in government and public crosshairs alike, answering for a series of (often data-centric) misdeeds.
A technique called “password salting” is a good way to make your passwords simpler and stronger at the same time.
Bloomberg detailed how Chinese spies had installed chips in servers of major tech companies—creating a stealth doorway into their respective networks.
Cyber insurance policies are designed to mitigate the risks associated with network breaches by offsetting recovery costs after cyberattacks or similar events.
Policymakers worldwide show no signs of letting up their increased scrutiny of Facebook. A British parliamentary committee investigating Russian election influencing campaigns has recommended sweeping regulations on tech companies, while accusing the social media giant of being disingenuous or outright obstructing lines of questioning.