PRG News Roundup: October 5th
By Taylor Black On Tuesday, Reuters reported that Yahoo secretly installed a program in all user email accounts to search incoming emails for specific information. Since that report, journalists have…
PRG News Roundup: September 28th
By Eliana Pfeffer Yahoo has experienced a number embarrassing security failures over the last four years. Last week, the company disclosed that hackers backed by what it believed was an…
PRG News Roundup: September 21st
The U.S. government officially endorsed driverless cars: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/technology/self-driving-cars-guidelines.html?_r=0 Google unveiled its highly anticipated messaging app Allo which partially relies on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/technology/personaltech/allos-tryout-5-days-with-googles-annoying-office-intern.html There's a class-action lawsuit over the privacy…
PRG News Roundup: April 13th
Article 29 Working Party expresses "strong concerns" over EU-U.S. Privacy Shield: http://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/x/483814/Data+Protection+Privacy/Article+29+Working+Party+Expresses+Strong+Concerns+about+the+EUUS+Privacy+Shield+Agreement Daniel Radcliffe to star in "Privacy" play off broadway: http://variety.com/2016/legit/news/daniel-radcliffe-privacy-play-off-broadway-1201751421/ MaxMind locates digital center of the U.S. at a farm in…
PRG News Roundup: April 6th
Nest is shutting down a smart home hub of a company that they acquired a few years ago. Kit Walsh, Nest Reminds Customers that Ownership Isn’t What it Used to…
PRG News Roundup: March 30th
U.S. Justice Department claims it was able to unlock San Bernardino shooter's iPhone without Apple: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/technology/apple-iphone-fbi-justice-department-case.html?_r=0 Dave Chappelle uses locking pouches to make shows phone-free: http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/02/dave-chappelle-cell-phone-pouch-yondr-chicago
PRG News Roundup: March 23rd
PRG long-time participant Luke Stark's research on emotion has been published in Information Society: https://starkcontrastdotco.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/01972243-2015.pdf DOJ postpones hearing on Apple case: http://fortune.com/2016/03/21/doj-court-hearing-apple-postpone/ Utah tests online voting in state caucus: http://www.npr.org/2016/03/22/471474745/utah-republicans-to-test-online-voting-in-states-caucus
PRG News Roundup: March 9th
Dstillery Tracked 16,000 Iowa Caucus-goers via their phones: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dstillery-iowa-caucus_us_56c12cafe4b08ffac125b591 Facebook faces privacy-related antitrust enforcement in Germany: http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/02/facebook-faces-german-antitrust-privacy-probe/ FCC Settles with Verizon over super cookies: http://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-to-pay-1-35m-to-settle-fcc-probe-of-supercookies-1457372226
PRG News Roundup: March 2nd
On Monday, the European Commission issued the legal texts that will put in place the EU-US Privacy Shield, and replace the former Safe Harbour framework. The Privacy Shield will not…
Digital Ellis Islands
American tech companies, especially those running social networking sites, often pride themselves on giving voice and information to oppressed netizens around the world. Many commend Twitter’s role in facilitating coordination…