By Adriana Lee |
Tech users may be more blasé than ever about privacy matters and tracking features, but even the most indifferent might feel ill at ease if they lived in India. The country, which is responsible for much of the talent that has become modern technology’s lifeblood,…
By Adriana Lee |
Using PowerCloud’s Skydog network router is like having a surveillance tool in the house. Parents now have an easy way to monitor network traffic, to make sure the kiddies aren’t playing Guild Wars 2 when they’re supposed to be studying, or that your good-for-nothing brother-in-law…
By Adriana Lee |
To Web-savvy users, the idea of privacy may seem quaint. Even so, there’s something unsettling about seeing indisputable proof that governments all over the world are trying to surveil users or influence data. But that’s just what Google delivered in its sixth bi-annual Transparency Report,…
By Adriana Lee |
Parents can be unnerved by the thought of sending their children off to school by themselves. In the past, that usually meant walking the child or following close behind, diving behind bushes to avoid embarrassing the tot. Now, it involves something else — a quadcopter,…
By Adriana Lee |
Tech’s a strange thing. One day, an innovation is a military advancement, the next, it’s a feature on a luxury car. It’s a world where a secret government project later winds up in the hands of every 13-year-old with a mobile phone. And so it…
By Adriana Lee |
Could you picture a world in which your home could automatically alert you if it needs attention? One day, your house or apartment could send you texts, letting you know if a stranger has entered your home. Your oven could tweet to let you know…
By Adriana Lee |
Perhaps you never caught the TV show Rubicon before AMC yanked it off the air. I actually enjoyed its brain-teasing, intellectual twists and turns — not that I fully understood everything, but this world of intrigue was still fascinating. In this place, innocuous-looking public messages…
By Adriana Lee |
Looks like law enforcement’s about to get a new tool, and it’s kicking up some privacy controversy. The MORIS iPhone link from Bi2 Technologies is a case-like accessory that snaps onto the handset to enable officers to take biometric scans in the field. Previously this…
