Wed. Jan. 27, 2021 |By Jenna DeAngelis – CBS New York| A man terrorized by teen cyclists in Manhattan’s Flatiron District a month ago is frustrated there’s been little progress in his case, and now an assemblywoman is stepping in with an idea she’s sharing first with CBS2’s Jenna DeAngelis. The terrifying experience when Max […]
Wed. Jan. 13, 2021 |By Isobel Asher Hamilton and Grace Dean – Business Insider | Signal downloads skyrocketed 4,200% after WhatsApp announced it would force users to share personal data with Facebook. It’s top of both Google and Apple’s app stores. WhatsApp’s rivals got a massive boost after the messaging app announced last week that […]
By Jon Schuppe – NBC News| Tues. Dec. 29, 2020 | A woman in medical scrubs with a swollen, bruised face walked into a truck stop outside Milwaukee just before 3 a.m. on June 16, 2017, and begged a driver to use his cellphone. She dialed 911 and said she’d been attacked by two men. […]
By Marguerite Reardon – c|net | Thur. Dec. 24, 2020 | From antitrust lawsuits to a potential privacy law to limits on free speech protections, Silicon Valley will face calls for more regulation in the coming year. For more than a decade, lawmakers and regulators have taken a hands-off approach to Silicon Valley. But that’s all […]
By Tim Cushing – Tech Dirt | Fri. Dec. 18, 2020 | The Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement agencies needed a warrant to obtain cell site location info. The ability to turn third parties (like telcos) into proxy long-term tracking devices concerned the court, which decided this wasn’t permissible under the Fourth Amendment. Every American […]
