Today the Massachusetts Special Senate Committee on Net Neutrality and Consumer Protection meets to discuss critical law reform regarding internet service providers’ (ISPs) use of consumer data. ISPs have access to mountains of personal information including our browsing history, personal and professional...
The Cambridge Analytica and Facebook scandal has woken the United States up to the seedy underbelly of online advertising markets. Unless we take action soon, this problem will only get worse. Thankfully, states like Massachusetts are considering legislation that would protect consumers...
From The Jetsons to Smart House and Star Trek, pop culture tells of our fascination with futuristic technology. So it’s no surprise to see many consumers enamored by Amazon and Google’s electronic home assistants and “smart” appliances. Want to turn off the...
Legislation recently proposed in the senate would give US and foreign governments unprecedented access to our real-time communications and sensitive personal information stored on the servers of private companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. On February 6th, Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Chris...
CFPB SCALES BACK EQUIFAX INVESTIGATION AND WARREN SLAMS BACK From Vox: Elizabeth Warren warns Equifax could “wiggle off the hook” for users’ credit data getting hacked On Wednesday, Senator Elizabeth Warren released a report condemning Equifax for a lackluster response to its...
At around 1:10pm eastern time this afternoon, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai cast the deciding vote to eliminate net neutrality rules established in 2015 under Obama’s FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler. Pai, a former Verizon lobbyist who recently joked (ha-ha) that he is a...
You know how your electric bill works, right? Your power company supplies and delivers electricity to your home and you get charged for what you use, not how you use it. Your power company doesn’t care if you run three vacuums, cool...
On September 11, the 16th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, thousands of spies, police officers, prosecutors, and surveillance profiteers will gather in Washington D.C. for a spying technology extravaganza known as ISS World Americas. On its website, the event organizers describe ISS...
If you’ve ever driven in Boston, you know how notorious the roads are, and how confusing it can be even with GPS navigation. One of the most frustrating parts of driving in Boston is navigating the tunnels under the city. Locals and...
Two German researchers bought “anonymous” web browsing data on millions of Germans. It didn’t take long for them to identify those people by looking through their web browsing history. The Guardian reports: “What would you think,” asked Svea Eckert, “if somebody showed...