Adobe and Intel were also faced with court case in which lawyers sought $9bn over alleged collusion

Sixteen-year-old Sarah* shoved the computer away. “I’m not doing this,” she said, shifting her disdain between the counselor and the online course in ...

German request for data audit reveals the web giant 'accidentally' stored payload information from open networks

Uber is taking down blog posts that show how it tracks users' one-night stands -- and the prevalence of prostitutes in your favorite pick-up location.

Privacy advocates warn feds about surreptitious cross-device tracking.

When you walk into a brick and mortar retail store like a Nordstrom, Cabela, or even Family Dollar, you're being tracked around the store. Not by an over-suspicious security guard, but by the store's wireless network, using your phone's Wi-Fi. The store then uses your phone to track you around the store, determine if you're a repeat visitor, see what departments you visit, and more. Here's how they do it, and how to stop them.

After ProPublica revealed last year that Facebook advertisers could target housing ads to whites only, the company announced it had built a system to spot and reject discriminatory ads. We retested and found major omissions.

At a launch party in Chicago, Uber allegedly treated guests to the whereabouts and movements of 30 "notable" Uber users in New York in real time without those users' permission.

On Wednesday, a Facebook employee in Nigeria shared footage of a minor inconvenience that he says speaks to tech’s larger diversity problem. In the video, a white man and a dark-skinned black man both try to get soap from a soap dispenser. The soap dispenses for the white man, but not the darker skinned man. After a bit of laughter, a person can be overheard chucking, “too black!”

In Australia pilot effort, company will ‘hash’ images, converting them into digital fingerprints that prevent any other attempts to upload the same pictures

Facebook Inc. on Wednesday won its appeal at a Brussels court against Belgium’s privacy watchdog, allowing the U.S. tech company to restore its ability to collect information about internet users in the country not registered with the social media site.

An app supposed to detect when people on Twitter appeared to be suicidal has been suspended due to "serious" concerns.

Tolstoy's text victimized by modern technology, laziness.

The Silicon Valley giant says it deleted the accounts of the Chechen Republic’s tyrant — followed by 4 million people — because the U.S. government required it to do so.

Employee wellness firms and insurers are working with employers to mine data on the drugs employees use, how they shop, and even whether they vote, to predict their individual health needs and recommend treatments.

Leila has two identities, but Facebook is only supposed to know about one of them.

Angry users assailed Slice Intelligence and its service Unroll.me, which scans email inboxes, after it was reported that Uber had used the company’s data.

Leaked documents said to describe how the social network shares psychological insights on young people with advertisers

Dopamine Labs aims to give any app the same addictive power that Facebook, Zynga and others have spent millions to perfect. Now, armed with $1 million in seed funding and some initial data that they’re experiments in mind control actually work, Dopamine Labs is spending money to boost its staff and sales and marketing efforts to bring more apps in on its brain science.

Has any other company had a more batshit year than Uber? In lieu of a traditional report card, I briefly considered just copying and pasting text from the Book of Revelation into this article....

People don’t just listen to Spotify, they live it.

More than half of the selfies uploaded on Chinese social media are believed to have been edited using apps made by just one company. Meitu, which

Twitter has a history of cooperating with Israeli authorities.

Proud to anounce: #ProjectAlias a parasite for the surveillance age that lets you be in controle of your smart home device. Check out the project at https://t.co/p3T57qp4Gc pic.twitter.com/nugeSUGWaB— Bjørn Karmann (@BjoernKarmann) January 14, 2019

Semiautonomous driving systems are designed to ignore unmoving obstacles because otherwise, they couldn't work at all.

The founders of Predictim want to be clear with me: Their product—an algorithm that scans the online footprint of a prospective babysitter to determine their “risk” levels for parents—is not racist. It is not biased.