reader comments 27 with 23 posters participating Share this story Vimeo is collecting and storing thousands of people’s facial biometrics without their permission or knowledge, a recently filed lawsuit alleges. The “highly detailed geometric” facial maps, according to a complaint, are being collected and stored in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy ACT, or ..
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Enlarge / U.S. Attorney General William Barr speaks at an event at the Robert F. Kennedy Main Justice Building in Washington, DC, in May 2019. reader comments 79 with 38 posters participating Share this story Facebook, it seems, is continuing to shatter records of all sorts. Usually, regulators at the Federal Trade Commission and Department ..
David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty Images reader comments 52 with 38 posters participating Share this story Microsoft revealed on Wednesday that it is fighting in court for the right to tell one of its large enterprise customers about a federal request for data hosted on Microsoft’s cloud services. The data request came with an order prohibiting ..
Enlarge / President Donald Trump discusses Twitter, Facebook, and Google during a Social Media Summit at the White House in July 2019. reader comments 120 with 87 posters participating Share this story Facebook this week finally put into writing what users—especially politically powerful users—have known for years: its community “standards” do not, in fact, apply ..
Enlarge / Blessed are the note takers. reader comments 255 with 116 posters participating, including story author Share this story The White House has released what a spokesperson called a “memorandum of a telephone conversation” between US President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in response to accusations that Trump attempted to coerce ..
Enlarge / The European Court of Justice, Luxembourg, in June 2019. reader comments 55 with 46 posters participating Share this story The Internet is forever, we tell social media users: be careful what you put online, because you can’t ever take it back off. And while that’s gospel for US users, there’s some nuance to ..
Enlarge / A Sprint sign in Branford, Connecticut, in 2014. reader comments 37 with 36 posters participating Share this story Sprint has been caught taking millions of dollars in government subsidies for “serving” 885,000 low-income Americans who weren’t using Sprint service, the Federal Communications Commission said today. Sprint violated the Lifeline program’s “non-usage rule” that ..
Enlarge / A SolarCity employee checks solar panels on the roof during installation at a home in New Jersey on July 28, 2015. reader comments 49 with 31 posters participating Share this story Back in 2016, Tesla acquired solar panel manufacturer SolarCity, billing the $2.6 billion deal as an opportunity to create “the world’s only ..
Enlarge / The Russian rescue tug Altai launches a boat like the one sunk by a walrus off Franz Jozef Land. Russian Northern Fleet reader comments 33 with 29 posters participating Share this story Last week, a Russian Navy rescue tug—the Altai from the Northern Fleet—dispatched a rigid inflatable boat to Wilczek Island in the ..
Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook and chief design officer Jony Ive look at the new Mac Pro on June 03, 2019. reader comments 62 with 48 posters participating Share this story Apple will continue manufacturing the Mac Pro in Austin, Texas, the company announced on Monday. Media reports had suggested that the new Mac ..
