According to stats I saw yesterday, Threads–a part of Instagram and thus Meta/Facebook–is being used by over 30 million people a day. Somewhere over 110 million have signed up over the last week,
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Going to a concert should be about the fun, not a scenario in which people are worried about their photo being uploaded into a government database. Terrible incidents like the mass shootings in
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Apple has always made a big deal about respecting its customers’ privacy, even going to far as to deny law enforcement authorities the ability to break iPhone security measures. So what’s this about
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It wasn’t an April Fool’s joke: Mark Zuckerberg claims to want more government oversight and regulation of platforms like Facebook. In an op-ed published Saturday in the Washington Post, the man behind the
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It was a beautiful, snarky, pointed idea while it lasted. Up in arms over pending legislation that would allow ISPs to sell users’ browser history to the highest bidder, Max Temkin had a
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The latest jaw-dropper to come out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: the US House of Representatives is thisclose to making your private internet browsing habits available to the highest bidder. Late Tuesday night, the
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In some states, only one side of a telephone conversation needs to consent to a call being taped for it to be legal. In others, both parties must give their permission for a
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