Tech Freedom

Eric Lieberman Apple revealed Friday that it will start publishing reports on government requests to shut down apps on its software platform. The new policy, announced in its bi-annual transparency report, is potentially in response to intensified criticism Apple receives for sometimes capitulating to foreign officials’ commands. China, for example, has been trying to clamp downon certain technological capabilities that empower people…

Kyle Perisic Since the rise of Amazon’s Alexa, tech junkies have speculated the device is secretly listening to private conversations. So-called tech experts often laughed at those claims, but it turns out the artificial intelligence device really does listen to people’s personal exchanges. A Portland, Ore., family discovered their Amazon Alexa recorded a private conversation and sent…

Kyle Perisic An advocacy group that promotes restricting the ability of websites to collect users’ personal data might be using the same tools as its targets of criticism, Facebook and Google, to track and collect its users’ personal data, according to Bloomberg Monday. Californians for Consumer Privacy’s website uses the same resources utilized by much of the web….

I recently golfed with a friend who works at a large corporation. When the topic of work came up, we swapped stories about our mutual loathing of Facebook. I complained about its algorithm changes, which make it much more difficult to reach our audience. She complained about the mass amounts of personal data her company…