Crooks are taking a holiday. They’re counting on you to fund it.For decades, cybercriminals have stolen roughly the same types of data. Biographical and personal details—like Social Security numbers,…
You will die. Your data will not.The afterlife of our information is a recent phenomenon, and some of the companies with the most to sort through are still just figuring it out.As far back as 2007,…
It may sound entirely bizarre but the prices you once paid for hotels, educational classes, or staplers could have all been higher because you used a Mac computer, lived in a certain zip code, or…
Twenty years ago, a British mathematician named Clive Humby popularized a phrase that came to describe data’s relationship with the entire global economy: “Data is the new oil.”Pithy as the phrase…
There is a lot going on right now regarding the safety of kids online.In the United States, the majority of state legislatures have passed age verification laws requiring a variety of websites to more…
Pay is personal for plenty of Americans, but a new distribution model that consumes vast quantities of worker data is turning pay into something else: personalized.For an increasing number of workers…
If you weren’t taking deepfakes seriously before, it’s too late now to ignore them.According to new research from Malwarebytes, one in three people who use AI every day said it’s okay to generate…
In the United States today, you can have your bank account closed, your credit cards cancelled, and your online payments revoked for any number of crimes, like funding terrorism, engaging in money…
In May of last year, a warning about AI came from somewhere unexpected: The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Posting publicly on social media, the museum warned about a Facebook account using…
Your prices could be going up because of a little something that one group has started calling the “cyber tax.” Not a “tax” in any regulatory sense of the word, this newly named “cyber tax” is instead…
