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How smart thermostats can reveal sleep patterns — and 7 more new sleep advances
The information the researchers gleaned from the thermostats differs from what's available to smart bed users.
Google collected children's voices and car pool routes, privacy breach leak reveals: report
The trove of leaked internal documents also showed that Google reportedly made YouTube recommendation based on watch histories that users had previously deleted.
New privacy laws may hurt small businesses most
As the saying goes: buyer beware.
FCC fines four wireless carriers millions for sharing customer data
The FCC claimed "aggregators" that received customer location data from the carriers turned around and charged third-party location-based service providers for access at a price.
TikTok's effort to hide US user data from Chinese parent only focused on the 'front door': ex-workers
One ex-TikTok worker threw doubt on the efficacy of TikTok's so-called US Data Security team, which was put into place to keep user data hidden away, Fortune reported.
NYC high schooler creates astonishingly accurate AI algorithm for 911 callers to get help they actually need
“You need very little input from the actual caller,” Pierce Wright, age 17, said about his AI model.
Software giant Salesforce in advanced talks to buy Informatica
Customer relations software maker Salesforce is in advanced talks to acquire Informatica, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday, in the latest sign of increased deal-making in...
Keeping your data hidden from Apple is ‘virtually impossible,’ experts warn
If you think you're protecting your data, think again.
Most promiscuous countries in the world revealed: Here's how America scores
"The average number of sexual partners can vary significantly from country to country, as cultural norms can have a significant impact on the number of people someone has sex with,"...
Google to destroy browsing data to settle consumer privacy lawsuit
Google agreed to destroy billions of data records to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of people who thought they were browsing privately.
Amazon reportedly to spend $150B to build data centers needed for AI boom, 'get closer to customers'
Amazon is reportedly planning to spend a whopping $150 billion within the next 15 years on building data centers -- a move that will position the tech giant to be...
AI company paid $4.3M as teaching tool at NYC schools touts 'artificial' reviews on website
The company providing an AI teaching tool to Brooklyn high schools used “testimonials” from phantom “NYC teachers,” and its founder is pals with the schools chancellor.
Mass panic as anonymous workplace-review site starts revealing staffers’ real names in profiles — sparking fears of retribution
"They do not care that this puts people at risk with their employers," one user wrote. "They do not care that this seems to run counter to their own data-privacy...
Harvard professor of honesty tampered with data and should be fired: university probe
A Harvard Business School investigative committee found Francesca Gino had tampered with the data of four studies she had worked on and recommended she be fired.
Your car is secretly spying on you and driving your insurance rates through the roof: report
Drivers of cars manufactured by GM, Ford, and others say that their insurance rates went up after the companies sent data about their driving behavior to issuers without their knowledge.
US companies are sellling your personal data — to the government!
The amount of data sloshing around for sale is leaving the nation’s sacred social bargain dangerously out of whack.
This city's football fans were the horniest on Super Bowl Sunday: PornHub
These self-loving citizens sure put the "touch" in touchdown.
Gen Z demands honest bosses — but they're still going to quit on them
The latest report from 14 countries, including the US, found that less than 1 in 10 Gen Zers value experience and knowledge as a critical quality in their manager.
Facebook, X and other companies are mining iPhone user data through app notifications, research finds
IPhone users are handing over their personal data with a click of a button, new research finds.