One of my friends was absolutely stoked when she got her Alexa for Christmas last year. She took pride of place on the shelf beside her wall-mounted TV, where…
Privacy
Uber (UBER.NYSE) drivers could soon have to provide biometric data to operate in London. The City of London regulator Transport for London (TfL) has been on Uber’s case for…
Everyone has that one friend that’s into the weird shit. I don’t mean strange drugs or alcohol (but I don’t not mean that either), but strange cultural esoterica like…
Social media has been a part of our lives for over two decades now, and it plays a big role in our social organizing. But the biggest companies have…
The United States has had enough from bullshit robocalls that their government has actually gotten off their collective asses and called up their buddies in the major telecom companies…
Privacy is the price we all pay for living in advanced capitalism. The flipside of this argument is that while this new regime spells potentially terrifying new avenues for…
Facebook’s (FB.Q) stock price has cratered by more than $20 in the past two months on the back of privacy scandal after scandal. We can now add to that…