Category: Wired
Your devices and apps really, really want to know where you are—whether it’s to tell you the weather, recommend some…
With a major United States intelligence authority set to expire at the end of the year, and a congressional showdown…
Prominent political figures, including US Senators Ron Wyden and Rand Paul, have put forward bills in the past seeking to limit…
In the cryptocurrency economy, there’s often a fine line between financial privacy and money laundering. Now one Bitcoin “mixer” service…
For years, Russia-based ransomware gangs have launched crippling attacks against businesses, hospitals, and public sector bodies, extorting hundreds of millions…
Twitter’s direct messages have always been a security liability. The DMs you send to friends and internet strangers aren’t end-to-end encrypted,…
When it comes to antitrust and tech, there’s a trust deficit on Capitol Hill, even as pressure to act continues…
The letter also points to databases maintained by the British multinational RELX and the Canadian conglomerate Thomson Reuters, which, according…
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, enacted in 2018, provides far from perfect data privacy protection, but it stands…
“From [an] engineering point of view, it’s very interesting to work with: It’s very difficult,” he says. After the release…
If you heard rumblings this week that Netflix is finally cracking down on password sharing in the United States and…
On Friday, United States secretary of state Antony Blinken said he was canceling a high-profile diplomatic visit to Beijing following…