California launched a free tool on January 1 that lets residents request the deletion of their personal data from over 500 registered data brokers
privacy.ca.gov/drop/ Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : Data brokers are the invisible engines of the data surveillance economy. It's hard to escape. Until. — California just opened a website to delete (...
Sauron, which is touting a waiting list of tech CEOs and VCs for its home security system that incorporates drones and facial recognition, raised a $18M seed
By incorporating drones, facial recognition and high-tech sensors, Sauron aims to super-charge home security … Bluesky: @stephencsmith , @willoremus.com , @siracusa.mastodon … , @thorinklosowski.com ,...
An overview of disparate federal and state data privacy laws in the US, where no singular GDPR-like federal law covers the privacy of all types of data
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Microsoft makes its Wunderlist successor, To-Do, available in preview as part of Office 365; Wunderlist will “eventually” be retired
iTunes — Open iTunes to buy and download apps. Carl Velasco / Tech Times : Microsoft Retires Wunderlist And Launches Successor, ‘To-Do’: How To Move Your Lists To The New App Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The...
Microsoft takes Outlook.com Premium out of preview for US users, available for $20/year until March 31 then $50/year, with ad-free inbox, custom domains, more
but who is it for? Adnan Farooqui / Ubergizmo : Outlook.com Premium Launched For $19.95 Per Year Tom Warren / The Verge : Microsoft launches Outlook.com Premium email service for $19.95 per year Jon F...
Fake stories flagged by two or more unpaid third-parties like Snopes and AP will get warning labels, lower ranking on News Feed, but will remain shareable
Not With Censorship, But With More Info Eric Abent / SlashGear : Here's Facebook's plan for fighting fake news Michael Krey / Investor's Business Daily : Facebook Ratchets Up Its Efforts To Block Fake...
Web Of Trust browser add-on, downloaded over 140M times, pulled from Mozilla, Chrome, Opera add-on stores after it was caught selling users' browsing histories
Uninstall It Now Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News : Mozilla and Google remove WOT extension from Store Lee Mathews / Forbes : Web Of Trust Browser Add-On Blasted For Breaking User Trust Vlad ...
Instagram “Stories” clones Snapchat's Stories feature for ephemeral photo and video slideshows, will roll out globally on iOS and Android over next few weeks
One of the more eye-rolling sentiments … Alexandra Vaidos / Softpedia News : Instagram Introduces Snapchat-like Feature Stories Shashidhar KJ / MediaNama : Instagram takes on Snapchat with self-destru...
Microsoft launches Pix, a free camera app for the iPhone that uses AI to enhance photos
iTunes — Open iTunes to buy and download apps. Emily Price / The Technology Chronicles : Microsoft's new Pix replaces the camera app on your iPhone Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage : Microsoft r...
WhatsApp says it has enabled end-to-end encryption for all forms of communication on its service, which now has over a billion users, by default
WhatsApp has always prioritized making … Open Whisper Systems : WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete John Snow / blog.kaspersky.com : WhatsApp switches to secure end-to-end encryptio...