Tag: Data-Mining and Database Marketing
Apple, the Ad Critic, Now Embraces Ads
For years, Apple has been a loud critic of online advertising that relies on hogging as much information…
3 Senate Hopefuls Denounce Big Tech. They Also Have Deep Ties to It.
For Republicans running for the Senate this year, “Big Tech” has become a catchall target, a phrase used…
The Default Tech Settings You Should Turn Off Right Away
There’s a catchy saying going around with a valuable lesson about our personal technology: The devil is in…
How Mark Zuckerberg Is Leading Meta Into Its Next Phase
SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of the company formerly known as Facebook, called…
Hacker Offers to Sell Chinese Police Database in Potential Breach
In what may be one of the largest known breaches of Chinese personal data, a hacker has offered…
TikTok tells Republican senators how it plans to keep American data away from China.
TikTok gave U.S. lawmakers more details in a letter dated Thursday about how it plans to keep data…
Why Deleting Your Period Tracker Won’t Protect Your Privacy
In May 1972, the Chicago police raided a high-rise apartment where a group called the Jane Collective was…
Our Data Is a Curse, With or Without Roe
Nearly limitless harvesting of our personal information was always leading to this moment.In the days since the Supreme…
How China Is Policing the Future
The more than 1.4 billion people living in China are constantly watched. They are recorded by police cameras…
The Rich Are Not Who We Think They Are. And Happiness Is Not What We Think It Is, Either.
From this, they built a sample of more than three million data points, orders of magnitude more than…
The Messy Progress on Data Privacy
The latest attempt to create the first broad national data privacy law in the United States is causing…
New F.T.C. Majority Gives Lina Khan a Chance to Push an Aggressive Agenda
WASHINGTON — The confirmation of a third Democrat to the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday broke a partisan…