Today’s Tech Sightings: Facebook Fined $122M in Europe for Misleading WhatsApp Filing European Commission antitrust regulators slapped Facebook Thursday with $122 million in fines for providing “inaccurate or misleading” information for the vetting of its $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp in 2014. The Commission said Facebook claimed it could not automatically match WhatsApp user accounts on […]
The Cost of Sharing WhatsApp’s Data; APT3 Hackers Linked to Beijing
Posted May 18th, 2017 at 1:02 pm (UTC-4)
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Digital Assistants Explored to Aid the Elderly; Hacking for Dementia
Posted February 28th, 2017 at 12:25 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Home Digital Assistants Could Be Boon for Assisted Living Voice-activated devices and digital assistants are quickly spreading and Elliptic Labs, which uses ultrasound technology to detect motion, wants to use the technology to help the elderly. The company is launching new software that can be added to digital assistants like Amazon’s Echo. […]
Android’s Location Data Jackpot; Google Search Adds Privacy Controls
Posted June 1st, 2016 at 11:20 am (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Police Filing Warrants for Android’s Vast Store of Location Data If you use Google Maps on your Android device, you should know the software has a feature that builds a comprehensive history of the places you visit. Google’s Location History system collects the information, which is then used in Maps. The resulting […]