Dec 15 Watch 6:36 This year's tech trends have both nice and naughty sides By PBS News Hour Are high-tech personal gadgets on your holiday shopping list? Hari Sreenivasan talks to Amy Webb of Webbmedia Group about the rise of wearable devices, the inherent concerns over data collection and security and the industry that’s popped up to help… Continue watching
Dec 08 App developers are tracking kids despite laws to protect their privacy By Anne Flaherty, Associated Press Whether mobile app developers seek parental consent first — as required by law — or pass the information on to advertisers isn't entirely clear. But if you prefer to stay anonymous, your options are limited: Wade through each mobile app's… Continue reading
Nov 06 Twitter chat: Should teen sexting be a felony? By Nora Daly In a cover story in The Atlantic, Hanna Rosin tackled the question of “Why Kids Sext,” and the difficulty teen sexting poses to law enforcement. We took the conversation to Twitter. Continue reading
Nov 04 Federal appeals court struggles on NSA surveillance case By Pete Yost, Associated Press Three federal appeals court judges struggle to decide if National Security Agency's phone data surveillance program is a necessary intelligence-gathering tool or an intrusion of privacy. Continue reading
Sep 28 Watch Beyond the law: Are encrypted smartphones too private for the FBI? By PBS News Hour The debate over personal privacy vs. national security took a new turn earlier this week as the director of the FBI criticized the advent of encrypted smart phones that allow users to keep data on their devices private. For more,… Continue watching
Sep 09 Watch Apple offers new way to access your wallet with your phone By PBS News Hour Apple unveiled its new products -- a larger iPhone, as well as the Apple Watch and a new pay system -- that boast advances for phone, watch and wallet. Gwen Ifill interviews John Simons of the Associated Press for a… Continue watching
Sep 02 Watch Could the celebrity photo hack happen to you? By PBS News Hour A slew of intimate celebrity photos have surfaced this week after several celebrities’ personal online storage accounts were hacked. Though it is not clear who hacked the accounts or posted them, Apple said that the breach on its iCloud server… Continue watching
Aug 22 As governments invade privacy, tools for encryption grow more popular By Charles Pulliam-Moore In the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA collecting massive amounts of user meta-data, many people went in search of safer, more secure ways to use the internet anonymously. Once thought to be something only used by the… Continue reading
Jul 04 Google restores links to Guardian articles in Europe after criticism over censorship By Diane Jeanty The move comes after Google notified British media outlets, The Guardian and the BBC that links to some articles would no longer be visible on their search engine after they received complaints to have the links removed. Continue reading
Jun 29 Watch Hospitals turning to data brokers for patient information By PBS News Hour A new report this week describes how hospitals are buying information from data brokers to determine how likely you are to get sick and what it may cost to treat you. For more on this Shannon Pettypiece of Bloomberg News… Continue watching