Congress votes to nullify FCC regulations protecting online privacy
House Resolution (H.Res.230) narrowly passed in the House yesterday with a 215-205 vote. This resolution moves forward the Senate Joint Resolution 34 (S.J.Res.34) to...
Committee attacks FBI on facial recognition database
Last year, Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology reported on a FBI facial recognition database. The report found that as many as 117 million photos,...
Facebook now explicitly prohibits using their data for surveillance
Posted to the Facebook Privacy page on Monday, Facebook described the change in language was to better clarify that developers can not use "data obtained from us...
IBM invents a way to store data on a single atom
With devices shrinking all the time, we’re in constant need to cram ever more data into smaller storage spaces. To that end, IBM just...
Tech companies are fixing vulnerabilities published by Wikileaks
On Tuesday, we all got a little less comfortable sitting next to the electronics in our home when WikiLeaks dropped a bombshell report detailing...
How a typo at Amazon took down part of the internet
You might recall when a disruption to Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday brought down a slew of websites for users across the East...
Federal workers using encryption to talk Trump
It’s hard to believe we’re only three weeks into the Trump presidency but here we are. Yet for all the frenzy surrounding the new...
The Mirai botnet author may have just been outed
Renowned security blogger Brian Krebs just gave us all a rare glimpse at the mess lurking under the rug in the world of cyber...
Ransomware is now a felony in California
California just turned ransomware into a felony as of January 1st. The new law officially lays out that utilizing the cyber-extortion tactic is illegal...
New breathalyzer finds the “breathprint” of 17 diseases
Soon doctors could be using a newly developed breathalyzer to check patients for 17 diseases using only your breath. Researchers have discovered a way to detect...
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Uber Advanced Technologies Group wants to discuss the future of trucking
The Uber Advanced Technology Group wants to start a conversation around automation and the future of the transportation industry. Uber has published a study that...
Facebook now uses a selfie to prove your identity
The next time Facebook notices suspicious activity on your account, they could be asking you to verify your identity via selfie. The social media...
New study shows that learning a second language as a young child has huge...
Learning a second language can have benefits for our brain that go far beyond language itself. And when it comes to young children, research...
