| Date / Time |
Story |
| Monday August 28, 2017 @02:17PM |
To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining |
| Wednesday June 29, 2016 @02:59PM |
Facebook Wins Belgian Court Appeal Over Storing Non-User Data |
| Monday May 09, 2016 @12:42PM |
Twitter Blocks Feds From Data Mining Service |
| Friday May 06, 2016 @02:29PM |
Facebook's Newest Privacy Problem: 'Faceprint' Data |
| Friday April 15, 2016 @09:44AM |
CIA Is Investing Heavily In Firms That Do Social Media Mining and Surveillance |
| Tuesday December 29, 2015 @10:12AM |
Database of 191 Million US Voters Exposed On Internet |
| Thursday November 19, 2015 @09:32AM |
Manhattan DA Pressures Google and Apple To Kill Zero Knowledge Encryption |
| Tuesday November 03, 2015 @12:08PM |
Stanford Identifies Potential Security Hole In Genomic Data-Sharing Network |
| Tuesday October 20, 2015 @12:10PM |
Irish Data Protection Commissioner Ordered To Investigate Facebook Data |
| Tuesday September 29, 2015 @03:05PM |
FBI and DEA Under Review For Misuse of NSA Mass Surveillance Data |
| Friday April 10, 2015 @08:15PM |
The DEA Disinformation Campaign To Hide Surveillance Techniques |
| Friday April 10, 2015 @05:57PM |
'Smart Sewer' Project Will Reveal a City's Microbiome |
| Thursday April 09, 2015 @12:30PM |
Biometrics Are Making Espionage Harder |
| Thursday April 09, 2015 @10:07AM |
Netflix Algorithm Tells You When Your Best Employee Is About To Leave You |
| Tuesday February 24, 2015 @01:52PM |
Facebook AI Director Discusses Deep Learning, Hype, and the Singularity |
| Tuesday February 17, 2015 @09:34AM |
AT&T To Match Google Fiber In Kansas City, Charge More If You Want Privacy |
| Saturday February 07, 2015 @02:11AM |
Facebook Will Soon Be Able To ID You In Any Photo |
| Thursday February 05, 2015 @10:30AM |
The Algorithm That 'Sees' Beauty In Photographic Portraits |
| Thursday January 29, 2015 @06:12PM |
'Anonymized' Credit Card Data Not So Anonymous, MIT Study Shows |
| Thursday January 22, 2015 @09:25AM |
Healthcare.gov Sends Personal Data To Over a Dozen Tracking Websites |
| Sunday January 18, 2015 @01:57AM |
Feds Operated Yet Another Secret Metadata Database Until 2013 |
| Thursday January 15, 2015 @04:05PM |
Ad Company Using Verizon Tracking Header To Recreate Deleted Cookies |
| Tuesday December 30, 2014 @02:58AM |
United and Orbitz Sue 22-Year-Old Programmer For Compiling Public Info |
| Thursday December 25, 2014 @11:04PM |
Federal Judge: Facebook Must Face Suit For Scanning Messages |
| Sunday December 14, 2014 @03:43PM |
How Identifiable Are You On the Web? |
| Thursday December 11, 2014 @06:22PM |
How Your In-Store Shopping Affects the Ads You See On Facebook |
| Thursday November 20, 2014 @11:36AM |
Google Maps Crunches Data, Tells You When To Drive On Thanksgiving |
| Saturday November 15, 2014 @09:28PM |
Machine Learning Used To Predict Military Suicides |
| Saturday November 15, 2014 @06:31PM |
AT&T Stops Using 'Super Cookies' To Track Cellphone Data |
| Friday November 14, 2014 @03:27PM |
Researchers Forecast the Spread of Diseases Using Wikipedia |
| Thursday November 13, 2014 @02:09PM |
Crowd-Sourced Experiment To Map All Human Skills |
| Friday October 31, 2014 @12:29AM |
Signed-In Maps Mean More Location Data For Google |
| Friday October 17, 2014 @07:35PM |
Millions of Voiceprints Quietly Being Harvested |
| Friday October 17, 2014 @07:22PM |
Facebook 'Safety Check' Lets Friends Know You're OK After a Major Disaster |
| Friday October 17, 2014 @06:26PM |
The One App You Need On Your Resume If You Want a Job At Google |
| Tuesday October 14, 2014 @09:57AM |
Too Much Privacy: Finnish Police Want Big Euro Notes Taken Out of Circulation |
| Thursday June 12, 2014 @03:33PM |
Facebook Lets Users Opt Out of Targeted Ads |
| Saturday June 07, 2014 @12:41AM |
FTC Lobbies To Be Top Cop For Geolocation |
| Friday June 06, 2014 @08:32PM |
Apple Acquires Social Search Engine Spotsetter |
| Friday May 09, 2014 @10:42PM |
Physician Operates On Server, Costs His Hospital $4.8 Million |
| Thursday May 01, 2014 @08:41AM |
Google Halts Gmail Scanning for Education Apps Users |
| Friday April 25, 2014 @10:32AM |
Google's Business Plan For Nest: Selling Your Data To Utility Companies |
| Saturday April 05, 2014 @12:31PM |
Why No One Trusts Facebook To Power the Future |
| Sunday March 23, 2014 @06:24PM |
L.A. Police: All Cars In L.A. Are Under Investigation |
| Saturday March 22, 2014 @10:51AM |
Navy Database Tracks Civilians' Parking Tickets, Fender-Benders |
| Thursday March 13, 2014 @04:36PM |
FISA Court Reverses Order To Destroy NSA Phone Data |
| Wednesday March 12, 2014 @12:23PM |
Calif. Court Orders Preservation of Disputed NSA Phone Records |
| Saturday March 08, 2014 @04:10PM |
Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen Say Google Data Now Protected From Gov't Spying |
| Saturday March 01, 2014 @08:26AM |
Spark Advances From Apache Incubator To Top-Level Project |
| Thursday February 27, 2014 @11:09AM |
The Phone Dragnet That Caught the World's Top Drug Lord |
| Saturday February 22, 2014 @08:41PM |
Microsoft Lync Server Gathers Employee Data Just Like NSA |
| Thursday February 20, 2014 @06:54PM |
Why Your Online Impersonation of a 16-year Old Girl Won't Last Long |
| Tuesday February 18, 2014 @09:20AM |
Gracenote, Privacy, and the Rise of Metadata As a Valuable Asset |
| Tuesday February 11, 2014 @09:15AM |
Can Commercial Storage Services Handle the NSA's Metadata? |
| Saturday December 28, 2013 @05:55PM |
Ask Slashdot: Getting an Uncooperative Website To Delete One's Account? |
| Tuesday December 10, 2013 @09:05AM |
Facebook Patents Inferring Income of Users |
| Thursday December 05, 2013 @10:19AM |
NSA Tracking Cellphone Locations Worldwide |
| Tuesday December 03, 2013 @01:07PM |
Swarm Mobile's Offer: Free Wi-Fi In Exchange For Some Privacy |
| Sunday November 17, 2013 @11:22AM |
Rigging Up Baby |
| Tuesday November 05, 2013 @12:01PM |
Limo Company Hack Exposes Juicy Targets, 850k Credit Card Numbers |
| Thursday October 24, 2013 @10:28AM |
MEPs Vote To Suspend Data Sharing With US |
| Tuesday October 22, 2013 @09:28AM |
TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport |
| Tuesday October 22, 2013 @08:29AM |
Connecting To Unsecured Bluetooth Car Systems To Monitor Traffic Flow |
| Saturday October 12, 2013 @01:24PM |
Dataland: the Emerging Dystopia |
| Thursday October 03, 2013 @10:48AM |
Facebook and Cisco Offer Check-In Service For Free Wifi |
| Tuesday October 01, 2013 @09:52AM |
Facebook Delivers Viewer Engagement Reports To TV Networks |
| Thursday September 05, 2013 @04:03PM |
Ask Slashdot: Can Creating New Online Accounts Reduce Privacy Risks? |
| Saturday July 27, 2013 @06:43PM |
Retail Stores Plan Elaborate Ways To Track You |
| Thursday July 18, 2013 @07:59AM |
ACLU Study Says Police Cameras Create Database of Our Movements |
| Thursday July 11, 2013 @09:14AM |
BlackBerry Helps Indian Gov't Spy On Users' Messages |
| Tuesday July 09, 2013 @12:54PM |
European Watchdogs Challenge Google Over Its Privacy Policy |
| Tuesday July 09, 2013 @09:32AM |
MIT Project Reveals What PRISM Knows About You |
| Tuesday July 02, 2013 @12:12PM |
Ask Slashdot: Explaining Cloud Privacy Risks To K-12 Teachers? |
| Tuesday June 25, 2013 @09:17AM |
No "Right To Be Forgotten," Says EU Advocate General |
| Tuesday June 25, 2013 @08:07AM |
Introducing the NSA-Proof Crypto-Font |
| Friday June 21, 2013 @08:01PM |
QANTAS Wants To Monitor Frequent Flyers' Home Internet |
| Friday June 21, 2013 @07:11PM |
Data Miners Liken Obama Voters To Caesars Gamblers |
| Tuesday June 04, 2013 @12:35PM |
Researchers Pull Out of Talks With Publishers On Text-Mining |
| Sunday May 19, 2013 @08:05PM |
Medical Firm Sues IRS For 4th Amendment Violation In Records Seizure |
| Saturday May 18, 2013 @04:45PM |
Wired Writer Imagines Google Island |
| Friday May 17, 2013 @06:58PM |
Inside One of the World's Largest Data Brokers |
| Monday May 06, 2013 @08:15AM |
Bruce Schneier: Why Collecting More Data Doesn't Increase Safety |
| Tuesday April 23, 2013 @08:57AM |
Harvard/MIT Student Creates GPU Database, Hacker-Style |
| Thursday April 18, 2013 @10:35AM |
NSA Data Center Brings Concerns Over Security and Privacy and Jobs |
| Thursday April 11, 2013 @11:01AM |
RapLeaf Is Back and Bad As Ever |
| Friday April 05, 2013 @07:22PM |
The ATF Wants To Know Who Your Friends Are |
| Thursday March 07, 2013 @09:01AM |
Using Google To Help Predict Side Effects of Mixing Drugs |
| Monday February 04, 2013 @09:32AM |
Researchers Mine Old News To Predict Future Events |
| Thursday January 17, 2013 @01:57PM |
Facebook Lets You Harvest Account Phone Numbers |
| Sunday December 30, 2012 @04:29PM |
Foursquare Will Display Users' Full Names By Default |
| Saturday December 29, 2012 @03:43PM |
Data Brokers, Gun Owners, and Consumer Privacy |
| Tuesday December 25, 2012 @12:59PM |
NYPD To Identify 'Deranged' Gunmen Through Internet Chatter |
| Sunday December 16, 2012 @12:45PM |
Google Map App's Version of Anonymity Might Violate EU Privacy Laws |
| Thursday December 13, 2012 @02:46PM |
How Websites Know Your Email Address the First Time You Visit |
| Friday December 07, 2012 @11:43PM |
Some UK Councils Barred From Using Gov't Vehicle Database |
| Sunday October 21, 2012 @06:10PM |
Pols Blur Line Between Data Mining, Cyberstalking |
| Friday October 12, 2012 @11:29AM |
Interviews: Ask Free Software Legal Giant Eben Moglen |
| Thursday October 04, 2012 @01:43PM |
Facebook Privacy Boosted As Private Message 'Leak' Is Dismissed |
| Sunday September 30, 2012 @08:49AM |
Privacy Watchdogs Want Facebook, Datalogix Deal Probed |
| Friday September 28, 2012 @07:49PM |
ASIC Seeks Power To Read Your Emails |
| Tuesday September 25, 2012 @08:33AM |
Canadian Minister Mined Data To Target Email To Gay Voters |
| Thursday September 20, 2012 @02:47PM |
No Smiles At NJ Motor Vehicle Commission |
| Tuesday September 18, 2012 @08:26AM |
How Sensors and Software Turn Farms Into Data Mines |
| Friday September 14, 2012 @08:35PM |
Twitter Hands Over Messages At Heart of Occupy Case |
| Thursday September 06, 2012 @01:38PM |
Google Patents Profit-Maximizing Dynamic Pricing |
| Tuesday September 04, 2012 @10:14AM |
Google Patents Software To Identify Real-World Objects In Videos |
| Sunday September 02, 2012 @07:56PM |
Twitter Based "Ted" System Warns of Earthquakes Earlier |
| Tuesday August 28, 2012 @08:48AM |
Can Data Mining Win a Presidential Campaign? |
| Wednesday August 22, 2012 @11:50PM |
Australia Passes 'Lite' Data Retention Laws |
| Thursday August 16, 2012 @08:42AM |
The Rapid Rise of License Plate Readers |
| Tuesday August 14, 2012 @11:58AM |
Researchers Develop Algorithm To Trace Malware, Epidemics, More |
| Tuesday August 14, 2012 @08:05AM |
Leaked Emails Allegedly Tell of Global "Trapwire" Spy Network |
| Monday August 13, 2012 @05:40PM |
Australian Gov't Drops Plan To Snoop On Internet Use — For Now |
| Monday August 13, 2012 @11:11AM |
How Big Data Became So Big |
| Thursday August 09, 2012 @12:15PM |
NSA Official Disputes Chief's Claim That Agency Doesn't Collect American Data |
| Sunday July 22, 2012 @09:31AM |
Poison Attacks Against Machine Learning |
| Thursday July 19, 2012 @11:03AM |
Al Franken Calls for Tight Rules on Facial Recognition Software |
| Monday July 16, 2012 @01:43PM |
Former Pentagon Analyst: China Has Backdoors To 80% of Telecoms |
| Thursday July 12, 2012 @08:24AM |
2 Year Data Retention For Australian ISPs |
| Tuesday July 10, 2012 @12:03PM |
Cell Carriers Responded Last Year To 1.3M Law Enforcement Data Requests |
| Tuesday July 03, 2012 @08:01AM |
Twitter Can't Keep Protestor's Data From Cops |
| Tuesday June 19, 2012 @09:47AM |
Apple Patents Polluting Facebook, Google Profiles |
| Monday June 18, 2012 @12:38AM |
US Gov't Demands For Google Data Up 37% Over the Last Year |
| Sunday June 17, 2012 @03:17PM |
Proposed UK Communications Law Could Be Used To Spy On Physical Mail |
| Saturday June 16, 2012 @08:08PM |
Banking On Your Personal Online Data |
| Friday June 15, 2012 @06:16PM |
Researcher's Wikipedia Big Data Project Shows Globalization Rate |
| Thursday June 07, 2012 @09:37AM |
Could Cops Use Google As Pre-Cogs? |
| Tuesday June 05, 2012 @12:19AM |
SSID As the New Community Bulletin Board and Yard Sign |
| Friday May 25, 2012 @11:10PM |
Google Now Searches JavaScript |
| Tuesday May 15, 2012 @09:53AM |
Modeling People and Places With Internet Photo Collections |
| Friday May 11, 2012 @06:40PM |
Court Rules NSA Doesn't Have To Confirm Or Deny Secret Relationship With Google |
| Friday March 30, 2012 @11:42PM |
Obama Administration Places $200 Million Bet On Big Data |
| Tuesday March 27, 2012 @01:07PM |
What Does Google Get Out of Voice? |
| Tuesday March 27, 2012 @01:05PM |
Why Gay Men Are Worth So Much To Facebook |
| Saturday March 24, 2012 @03:37PM |
Japanese CCTV Camera Can Scan 36 Million Faces/Second |
| Thursday March 22, 2012 @08:23AM |
NSA Chief Denies Claims of Domestic Spying |
| Thursday March 15, 2012 @02:28PM |
Ask Slashdot: Do You Find Self Tracking Useful Like Stephen Wolfram Does? |
| Thursday February 23, 2012 @11:05AM |
Internet Giants To Honor the 'No' In 'No Tracking' |
| Thursday February 09, 2012 @02:57PM |
Online Privacy Worth Less Than Marshmallow Fluff Six Pack |
| Friday January 27, 2012 @08:48PM |
January 28 is Data Privacy Day |
| Friday January 27, 2012 @08:03PM |
FBI Building App To Scrape Social Media |
| Tuesday January 17, 2012 @10:23AM |
Facebook To Share Private Data With Politico |
| Wednesday January 04, 2012 @05:17PM |
Ask Carl Malamud About Shedding Light On Government Data |
| Sunday December 18, 2011 @03:29PM |
Using WikiLeaks As a Tool In Investigative Journalism |
| Friday December 16, 2011 @08:23PM |
Coming Soon: Ubiquitous Long-Term Surveillance From Big Brother |
| Thursday December 15, 2011 @09:29AM |
Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog |
| Thursday December 15, 2011 @09:26AM |
24-Year-Old Asks Facebook For His Data, Gets 1,200 PDFs |
| Sunday December 04, 2011 @06:31PM |
Browser History Sniffing Is Back |
| Saturday December 03, 2011 @05:12PM |
Carrier IQ Drama Continues |
| Thursday December 01, 2011 @10:06AM |
Obama Orders Federal Agencies To Digitize All Records |
| Monday November 28, 2011 @02:56PM |
EU Targets Facebook's Ad System |
| Friday November 04, 2011 @05:27PM |
The CIA's Social Mining Department |
| Tuesday October 18, 2011 @10:29AM |
Facebook Is Building Shadow Profiles of Non-Users |
| Thursday October 13, 2011 @03:38PM |
Facebook: the Law Says You Can't Have Your Data |
| Thursday October 13, 2011 @08:19AM |
Facebook: Your Personal Data is a Trade Secret |
| Tuesday October 04, 2011 @05:39PM |
Borders Books Customers, Watch For Database Opt-Out Email |
| Sunday October 02, 2011 @04:37PM |
Privacy Groups Ask FTC For Facebook Investigation |
| Sunday October 02, 2011 @10:37AM |
Canadian Court Finds Website Scraping Infringes Copyright |
| Thursday September 29, 2011 @08:43AM |
IBM Launches Parking Meter Analytics System |
| Thursday September 22, 2011 @12:28PM |
Borders Bust Means B&N May Get Your Shopping History |
| Thursday September 15, 2011 @09:29AM |
Ziff Davis Secretly Paying Sites To Track Users |
| Saturday September 10, 2011 @08:38PM |
Global Mall Operator Starts Reading License Plates |
| Tuesday September 06, 2011 @08:04AM |
Google's Real Name Policy, Why You Are the Product |
| Friday June 24, 2011 @08:02AM |
Data-Mining Ban Struck Down By US Supreme Court |
| Friday June 17, 2011 @06:16PM |
GM Patents Data Mining Method For Refining the Chevy Volt |
| Thursday June 16, 2011 @01:38PM |
Franken Bill Would Protect Consumers Location Data |
| Monday June 13, 2011 @04:54PM |
How Journalists Data-Mined the Wikileaks Docs |
| Thursday June 02, 2011 @07:06PM |
Too Much Data? Then 'Good Enough' Is Good Enough |
| Thursday May 12, 2011 @01:51PM |
Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You? |
| Thursday March 10, 2011 @06:21PM |
How Big Data Justifies Mining Your Social Data |
| Wednesday March 02, 2011 @08:10AM |
How To Protect Your Privacy and Make Money |
| Friday February 18, 2011 @12:36AM |
Data Retention Should Last One Year, US Gov't Tells Australia |
| Tuesday January 11, 2011 @08:49PM |
Tunisian Gov't Spies On Facebook; Does the US? |
| Friday December 31, 2010 @12:52AM |
Living Earth Simulator Aims To Simulate Everything |
| Monday December 13, 2010 @03:24PM |
Online Tracking Firms To Launch Opt-Out Program |
| Friday December 03, 2010 @07:01PM |
Web Bugs the New Norm For Businesses? |
| Thursday December 02, 2010 @10:23AM |
Race On To Fingerprint Phones, PCs |
| Tuesday November 30, 2010 @07:41PM |
Facebook's 'Like This' Button Is Tracking You |
| Thursday November 18, 2010 @09:11PM |
Paying With the Wave of a Cellphone |
| Friday November 05, 2010 @01:11AM |
EU Commission Says People Have a 'Right To Be Forgotten' Online |
| Thursday November 04, 2010 @02:13PM |
Cisco Social Software Lets You "Stalk" Customers |
| Thursday November 04, 2010 @01:02PM |
Facebook Knows When You'll Get Dumped |
| Tuesday November 02, 2010 @02:09PM |
NSF Funds Data Anonymization Project |
| Friday October 29, 2010 @07:04AM |
Australia's Privacy Boss Slams Gov't Data-Retention Scheme |
| Friday October 22, 2010 @06:08PM |
Facebook Ads Could 'Out' Gay Users |
| Thursday October 21, 2010 @05:43PM |
On Several Fronts, US Gov't Prepares To Regulate Online Privacy |
| Thursday October 21, 2010 @01:12PM |
Why Facebook Won't Stop Invading Your Privacy |
| Thursday October 21, 2010 @10:36AM |
Canada Says Google Wi-Fi Sniffing Collected Personal Data |
| Monday October 18, 2010 @10:48AM |
Top Facebook Apps Violate Privacy Terms |
| Friday October 15, 2010 @07:28PM |
How Cornell Plans To Purge Campus Computers of Personal Data |
| Friday October 15, 2010 @05:55PM |
The Intimate Social Graph |
| Thursday September 23, 2010 @02:51PM |
Is the Web Heading Toward Redirect Hell? |
| Monday September 20, 2010 @11:52AM |
On the Web, Children Face Intensive Tracking |
| Monday August 23, 2010 @08:57PM |
Nmap Developers Release a Picture of the Web |
| Tuesday August 10, 2010 @08:28AM |
Google Secret Privacy Document Leaked |
| Thursday August 05, 2010 @10:25PM |
Google CEO Schmidt Predicts End of Online Anonymity |
| Wednesday July 14, 2010 @01:51PM |
Familial DNA Testing Nabs Alleged Serial Killer |
| Sunday July 11, 2010 @01:36PM |
The Demographics of Web Search |
| Thursday June 24, 2010 @06:50PM |
Twitter To Establish Information Security Program |
| Friday June 18, 2010 @09:31PM |
Italian MEP Wants To Eliminate Anonymity On the Internet |
