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Technology

Personal injury law firms in the Philadelphia area are sending patients in ERs, chiropractors and pain clinics targeted ads that some privacy experts and prosecutors say are intrusive, and possible, illegal. (ShutterStock)
Courts & Law

Forget ambulance chasing, personal injury law firms are now waiting for you at the hospital 

Geo-fencing has been deployed by retailers for years. Bringing it into health care spaces, however, is raising alarm among privacy experts.

8 years ago

Listen 5:31
Christopher Wylie, former Cambridge Analytica employee, prepares to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. (Stringer/Reuters)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Whistleblower: Cambridge Analytica aimed to trigger paranoia, racial biases

"Cambridge Analytica sought to identify mental and emotional characteristics in certain subsets of the American population and worked to exploit them."

8 years ago

CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has said he is committed to changing the company's culture to have a new emphasis on accountability and earning trust. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Uber will no longer force sexual assault survivors into arbitration or NDAs

Uber riders who experience sexual harassment or assault will now be able to take their claims to court.

8 years ago

After Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg spoke to Congress about a massive data breach, the company announced it would no longer fund an effort to oppose The Consumer Right to Privacy Act.
(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

One-fifth of Delaware’s population may have had Facebook data exposed

The personal information of more than 200,000 Delawareans was compromised in the recently disclosed Facebook data breach.

8 years ago

Listen 1:53
“The Internet wasn’t broken in 2015,
NPR
Politics & Policy

FCC plans net neutrality rollback for June 11; Senate Democrats plan a key challenge

The Federal Communications Commission says that its order ending an era of "net neutrality"

8 years ago

Delaware Gov. John Carney takes a virtual tour of the state with the Delaware 360 video tourism officials are now using to promote the state. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Community

To attract more visitors, Delaware tries out virtual reality

They’ve used billboards and TV spots, magazine spreads and internet ads. Now, Delaware Tourism leaders are trying out virtual reality to draw more visitors to the state.

8 years ago

Horatio Monroe of Tracy, Calif. comes to PLAYlive Nation to play Fortnite every day after work. He says it relaxes him. (Adhiti Bandlamudi/Capital Public Radio)
NPR
Lifestyle

The Fortnite craze might be here to stay

Since its release in September 2017, Fortnite has caused a major stir in the video gaming world by transforming casual video game players into avid ones.

8 years ago

In this April 26, 2018, photo, a robot entertains visitors at the booth of a Chinese automaker during the China Auto 2018 show in Beijing, China. Under President Xi Jinping, a program known as
Politics & Policy

U.S.-China trade talks center on rivalry over technology

Chinese and U.S. officials met face-to-face Thursday in an attempt to resolve a dispute that has taken the world's two largest economies to the brink of a trade war.

8 years ago

The offices of Cambridge Analytica (CA) in central London, after it was announced that Britain's information commissioner Elizabeth Denham is pursuing a warrant to search Cambridge Analytica's computer servers, Tuesday March 20, 2018. (Kirsty O'Connor/PA via AP)
NPR
Community

Cambridge Analytica is shutting down after Facebook data controversy

Cambridge Analytica's U.K.-based parent firm, said the company had begun the process of filing for bankruptcy.

8 years ago

(photo credit/Henry Throop)
Radio Times
Science

New Horizons: NASA’s mission to Pluto

Guests: Alan Stern, David Grinspoon NASA’s New Horizons spaceship launched in 2006 to visit tiny Pluto at edge ...

Air Date: May 2, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 49:47
Call center employees work for the Facebook Community Operations Team in Essen, Germany, on Nov. 23. The workers review Facebook content and delete it if fails to meet the company's standards. (Martin Meissner/AP)
NPR
Community

Facebook updates community standards, expands appeals process

Facebook announced changes to its content review policy Tuesday.

8 years ago

The Amazon logo in Santa Monica, Calif. Amazon Web Services has government contracts that show its influence is far beyond the Post Office. (Reed Saxon/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Alexa, tell me a national security secret: Amazon’s reach goes beyond the Post Office

While Amazon still makes most of its money selling stuff online, a growing part of the company's business is storing stuff in the cloud.

8 years ago

5,500 U.S. youths ages 12 to 17, about 6 percent say they've engaged in some sort of digital self-harm. More than half in that subgroup say they've bullied themselves this way more than once.
(Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

When teens cyberbully themselves

They're anonymously posting mean and derogatory comments about themselves on social media.

8 years ago

A view of the Internal Revenue Service's headquarters on March 24, 2016, in Washington, D.C. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Money

IRS computer glitch caused by ‘master file’ issue

The IRS says its system was up and running again by 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

8 years ago

People pass by the Google logo at the Web Summit in Lisbon on Nov. 8. Europe's new data privacy rules go into effect May 25. (Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Europe’s new online privacy rules could protect U.S. users too

What counts as "personal" won't just be attributes like race, height, weight and religion, but also an individual's IP address or browsing history.

8 years ago

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