Subscribe To Newsletters

Tag: privacy

Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS

Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS

A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected US travelers’ domestic flight …

Read More
How the Farm Industry Spied on Animal Rights Activists and Pushed the FBI to Treat Them as Bioterrorists

How the Farm Industry Spied on Animal Rights Activists and Pushed the FBI to Treat Them as Bioterrorists

Hundreds of emails and internal documents reviewed by WIRED reveal top lobbyists and representatives of America’s agricultural industry led a …

Read More
Meta plans to replace humans with AI to assess privacy and societal risks

Meta plans to replace humans with AI to assess privacy and societal risks

People talk near a Meta sign outside of the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption toggle …

Read More
A Starter Guide to Protecting Your Data From Hackers and Corporations

A Starter Guide to Protecting Your Data From Hackers and Corporations

How do I deal with having to have a new account for every service and website? Should I be using …

Read More
The US Is Building a One-Stop Shop for Buying Your Data

The US Is Building a One-Stop Shop for Buying Your Data

This week, WIRED launched our Rogues issue—which included going a bit rough ourselves. WIRED senior correspondent Andy Greenberg flew to …

Read More
Signal’s new Windows update prevents the system from capturing screenshots of chats | TechCrunch

Signal’s new Windows update prevents the system from capturing screenshots of chats | TechCrunch

Signal said today that it is updating its Windows app to prevent the system from capturing screenshots, thereby protecting the …

Read More
A timeline of South Korean telco giant SKT’s data breach | TechCrunch

A timeline of South Korean telco giant SKT’s data breach | TechCrunch

In April, South Korea’s telco giant SK Telecom (SKT) was hit by a cyberattack that led to the theft of …

Read More
US Border Agents Are Asking for Help Taking Photos of Everyone Entering the Country by Car

US Border Agents Are Asking for Help Taking Photos of Everyone Entering the Country by Car

United States Customs and Border Protection is asking tech companies to send pitches for a real-time facial recognition tool that …

Read More
Sam Altman’s Start-Up Launches Eye-Scanning Crypto Orbs in the U.S.

Sam Altman’s Start-Up Launches Eye-Scanning Crypto Orbs in the U.S.

Spend enough time in San Francisco, peering into the cyberpunk future, and you may find that weird things start seeming …

Read More
Mike Waltz Has Somehow Gotten Even Worse at Using Signal

Mike Waltz Has Somehow Gotten Even Worse at Using Signal

On ThursdaY, Reuters published a photo depicting then-United States national security advisor Mike Waltz checking his phone during a cabinet …

Read More
Sam’s Club is adding AI to the shopping experience. Why are privacy advocacy groups worried?

Sam’s Club is adding AI to the shopping experience. Why are privacy advocacy groups worried?

Sam’s Club is going register-free and introducing an all-digital, AI-powered shopping experience for its customers, a move that has privacy …

Read More
Exclusive: Dating app Raw exposed users’ location data and personal information

Exclusive: Dating app Raw exposed users’ location data and personal information

A security lapse at dating app Raw publicly exposed the personal data and private location data of its users, TechCrunch …

Read More