Amazon’s home security business, Ring, landed in more hot water Thursday when researchers discovered thousands of user passwords had been uploaded to sites on the dark web. Some 1,500 unique… Read More
Amazon is in the crosshairs of consumer groups — led by the digital rights organization Fight for the Future — this week following a series of hacks into Ring security… Read More
The hacking of multiple Ring cameras this week brought the sometimes abstract world of tech security and privacy into stark relief, as hackers watched and harassed families and children in their… Read More
Senate Democrats introduced sweeping data privacy protections Tuesday in an effort led by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) to federally regulate tech company business practices. The bill would establish new privacy… Read More
Amazon is attempting to set the record straight on Ring, the security camera company that the tech giant acquired in 2018. Ring has been making headlines over the past few… Read More
Washington state legislators will push for new regulations governing data privacy and facial recognition next year, and a draft bill obtained by GeekWire provides a glimpse into what they have… Read More
This week, Microsoft announced that it will be implementing the upcoming California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) for all customers in the U.S. This is a big deal. The CCPA has… Read More
Microsoft plans to make changes required by California’s new data privacy law available to all its U.S. customers, the company said Monday. Microsoft privacy chief Julie Brill pledged the company’s… Read More
The California Consumer Privacy Act is fast approaching. The landmark privacy law, known as CCPA, goes into effect Jan. 1 and changes the way businesses collect information about California residents,… Read More
Two Democrats in the Senate are asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Amazon’s involvement in the Capital One data breach that affected more than 100 million people this past… Read More
Axon, the police tech company formerly known as Taser, will add automatic license plate readers to its cop car dashboards. The Seattle and Scottsdale, Ariz., based company said Wednesday that… Read More
It’s much worse to let Darth Vader go free than to keep Luke Skywalker incarcerated. That is the philosophical argument underpinning risk assessment tools such as COMPAS (Correctional Offender Management… Read More
Amazon laid out its positions on a wide range of issues in a new web page that surfaced Thursday, bringing new clarity to the tech company’s public policy agenda. The… Read More
After it faced public backlash against the practice of using people to review voice recordings from Alexa devices, Amazon gave users increased privacy controls and came clean about how those… Read More
Brad Smith makes one hell of a convincing argument. How else can you explain the following from Bill Gates’ foreword to his book, “Tools & Weapons: The Promise and the… Read More
Amazon announced a long list of new Echo and Alexa products and initiatives this week — from smart glasses to wireless earbuds to a new neighborhood wireless initiative — extending… Read More
Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty wants to adopt what could be the most far-reaching ban on facial recognition technology in the country. Later this month, the city council is… Read More
Is Ring’s collaboration with police departments a public benefit or a privacy concern? That’s the issue raised by an announcement from the Amazon-owned smart doorbell maker, in which it touts… Read More
Microsoft today updated its privacy policies to disclose that employees and contractors are listening to audio from some Skype calls and conversations with the tech giant’s digital assistant The change… Read More
There’s growing consensus that something needs to be done about data privacy. But figuring out what should be done and who should be doing it is a lot more complicated.… Read More
Microsoft contractors listen to certain types of Skype calls and Cortana recordings, Motherboard reported on Wednesday. The discovery adds to growing consumer unease about tech employees listening to conversations thought… Read More
A U.S. senator from Oregon wants Amazon to explain the role it played in a hack that exposed sensitive data from more than 100 million Capital One credit card applicants.… Read More
The U.S. technology industry, once seen as the darling of the economy, is facing a reckoning as Americans wake up to the power and influence a handful of companies wield.… Read More
Execs from four of the top tech companies in the country will descend on Washington D.C. on Tuesday for a big antitrust hearing amid calls for stricter regulation of the… Read More
Update, Monday, 3 p.m.: Mike Davidson has returned with another personal blog post about Superhuman, calling the startup’s privacy fixes “superficial” and saying that none of the changes keep the… Read More
Amazon has patented a system for providing home security surveillance as a service, but the real innovation has to do with avoiding surveillance of the home next door. Just don’t… Read More
Stanford University has long been a Mecca for techno-optimists, a place where innovation, student idealism, and the tech elite converge. But Stanford’s 2019 commencement address struck a more sober tone,… Read More
Amazon’s Alexa is the target of a pair of lawsuits that allege the voice assistant violates laws in nine states by illegally storing recordings of children on devices such as… Read More
Amazon is stepping up its privacy options for its voice assistant and digital brain Alexa, as tech giants look to give users more control over data to assuage widespread privacy… Read More
Consumer advocacy and privacy groups filed a complaint with the FTC on Thursday asking to investigate Amazon for allegedly illegally collecting information via its Echo Dot Kids Edition device. The… Read More