Bad news: your car is a spy. If your vehicle was made in the last few years, you’re probably driving around in a data-harvesting machine that may collect personal information as sensitive as your race, weight, and sexual activity. Volkswagen’s cars reportedly know if you’re fastening your seatbelt and how hard you hit the brakes. … Read more
Many students have no choice about working with the College Board, the company that administers the SAT test and Advanced Placement exams. Part of that relationship involves a long history of privacy issues. Tests by Gizmodo found if you use some of the handy tools promoted by College Board’s website, the organization sends details about … Read more
Virtual Private Networks, better known as VPNs, are services that route your traffic through a sort of encrypted tunnel, hiding your online activities from your internet service provider and anyone else who manages your network. That makes VPNs a tool you should definitely not consider using when you land at your college dorm this fall … Read more
The US government placed two Israeli spyware companies on a blacklist this week, almost completely cutting them off from business opportunities with US companies. The move is yet another attempt by the Biden administration to clean up the ethically bankrupt route the spyware industry before it spins completely out of control. Sam Bankman-Fried Uses a … Read more
On Thursday, the US Senate Judiciary Committee voted down a bill that would force tech companies to report web users to the Drug Enforcement Agency if they suspected they were engaged in criminal drug activity. The controversial Cooper Davis Act, named after a Kansas teenager who died of a fentanyl overdose in 2021, has rankled … Read more