After 50 million Facebook profiles hacked a few weeks ago, the tech giant Google got hit by a software glitch within Google+ which allows access to third-party ...
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Amazon starts investigation of leaking data to merchants
Bribery in Tech companies is nothing new. There are numerous stories of factory workers taking pictures of unannounced products. This is how tech blogs get to a ...
Internet Surveillance Laws: From SOPA & CISPA to Modern Privacy Battles
Back in 2013, CISPA (the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) triggered one of the largest online protests since the SOPA blackout. The bill proposed ...
Facebook’s Like Button Bait and Switch: A History of Meta’s Dark Patterns
On a quiet Oscar Sunday in February 2011, Facebook pulled off one of the most calculated product changes in social media history. Without warning, without a ...
Google Censorship: What They Filter and What They Don’t
In January 2011, we first reported on something that seemed small but carried enormous implications: Google was quietly removing torrent-related keywords from ...
Digital Identity Systems: Government Internet ID & Privacy Risks Explained
In January 2011, the Obama administration announced the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), a plan to create a standardized digital ...
CAPTCHA Evolution: The History of How Websites Prove You’re Human
At some point in the last two decades, every person with an internet connection has been asked the same deeply strange question: prove you are not a robot. You ...
