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Snapchat Says Leak of Nude Photos Isn’t Its Fault
Images from tens of thousands of Snapchat user accounts, many explicit, were leaked onto the internet late Thursday — but the messaging app said the hack wasn’t its fault. Snapchat said that...
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Judge Says Women Aren’t Entitled to Privacy in Public Places
Correction appended, Oct. 15 Prosecutors have dropped a case against a man accused of taking photographs up women’s skirts at the Lincoln Memorial, after a local judge ruled the photographs...
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The 7 Social Media Mistakes Most Likely to Cost You a Job
Your Facebook postings might win over your friends—but they could also cost you a job, a new study finds. Recruiting platform Jobvite has released the 2014 edition of its annual Social Recruiting...
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The Best Browser Privacy Tools (That Don’t Make Life More Difficult)
In a year when social media giants and governments alike have made headlines for tracking users online without their consent, battening down the virtual hatches has become a vital part of Internet...
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Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 28
1. Income inequality isn’t beyond our control. Smart policymaking could increase the efficiency of the U.S. economy AND narrow the income gap. By Jason Furman in the Milken Institute Review 2. A “Paris...
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Verizon and AT&T Snooping on Customers’ Web Activity
Verizon and AT&T are tracking the online activity of over 100 million mobile customers, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and multiple news outlets. Both services are inserting a...
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Government Requests for Facebook User Data This Year Rose By 24%
Facebook reported a nearly one-quarter increase in the number of government requests for user data over the last year. Government requests for user information rose by 24% between the second half of...
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Harvard Secretly Photographed 2,000 Students
Harvard University has raised privacy concerns among teachers and students after divulging Tuesday that it had photographed approximately 2,000 students in the Spring without seeking their consent or...
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Why the Constitution Can Protect Passwords But Not Fingerprint Scans
Cellphone fingerprint passcodes weren’t on James Madison’s mind when he authored the Fifth Amendment, a constitutional protection with roots in preventing torture by barring self-incriminating...
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Twitter Joins Partnership to Improve Handling of Harassment Claims
Twitter is partnering with a nonprofit to make it easier for people to report harassment based on gender. The organization Women, Action & the Media will begin collecting reports of harassment via...
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9 in 10 Americans Feel They’ve Lost Control of Their Personal Data
More than 90% of Americans feel they have lost control of their personal data, according to a new survey of Internet users that reveals a pervasive sense of unease about who is monitoring and misusing...
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Facebook’s New Privacy Policy Is Way Simpler
Facebook unveiled a drastically simplified privacy policy Thursday that explains in plain English who can see your personal information shared through the social network. The streamlined policy strips...
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Is the Government’s Aerial Smartphone Surveillance Program Legal?
Civil rights groups are raising serious constitutional questions about the Justice Department’s use of dragnet technology onboard aircraft to collect data from suspects’ cell phones, as reported by the...
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Tech Firms Push NSA Reform Bill as Senate Vote Approaches
In an open letter to U.S. Senators a powerful coalition of technology companies including Google, Apple, Facebook and others called for passage of the USA FREEDOM Act surveillance reform package as...
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Five Best Ideas of the Day: November 18
1. The worst ceasefire: Russia and Ukraine are both preparing for war as their uneasy peace slips away. By Jamie Dettmer in the Daily Beast 2. With the rise of legal cannabis, the small-holders running...
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Uber Investigating Executive Over Use of ‘God View’ to Spy on User
Uber said Tuesday that it’s investigating one of its top New York executives for tracking a reporter without her permission. The ride-sharing App has a system known as “God View,” BuzzFeed reports, in...
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What Is Uber Really Doing With Your Data?
Uber has had a rocky few days. On Monday, it was revealed that the ride-sharing app’s senior vice president, Emil Michael proposed the idea of investigating critical journalists’ personal lives in...
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How US Companies Help Central Asian Autocrats Eavesdrop
American companies are supplying technology that the governments of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are using to spy on their citizens’ communications and clamp down on dissent, according to a new report...
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New NSA Privacy Chief Promises Transparency
The National Security Agency’s newly appointed Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer Rebecca Richards said Monday in an online Q& A she hopes to inject a sense of transparency into the secretive...
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Twitter Exec’s Errant Message Makes Acquisition Aspirations Public
Note to executives: Beware of using Twitter to send private notes to colleagues. Anthony Noto, Twitter’s chief financial officer, showed why on Monday when he accidentally posted a message on Twitter...
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