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For just $129, you too can make a friend. Technology startup Friend has taken over the New York City subway system with walls of minimalistic and dystopian advertising as part of a new ad campaign — ...

If you take the subway in New York City, or drive a car in Los Angeles, you’ve seen the ads for Friend.com. “I’ll binge the entire series with you.” “I’ll never leave dirty dishes in the sink.” “I’ll ...

You use a VPN to improve your online privacy, whether for streaming, or gaming, or some other purpose. But privacy comes at a cost, with certain companies, like Apple, gaining disproportionate control ...

Think you can opt out of surveillance? Think again. Our locations, behaviors, and images are being tracked at unprecedented levels — and private tech companies are at the center, selling that ...

Instead of accepting the existing digital political battlefield as inevitable, Democrats should challenge it as a root cause of our dysfunctional politics, and vow to be the party that cleans it up.

Modern connected cars collect, store, and sell your driving data. Learn how automakers turned privacy into profit — and how to fight back ...

Do privacy and data ethics stand a chance against today’s data economy that seeks to exploit and profit from personal data at every turn? In a 1995 interview with Inc. magazine, Kurt Vonnegut ...

Thanks to the European Commission, websites worldwide have cookie consent pop-ups. The annoying unskippable windows warn and allow customization of cookies, the tiny bits of data that can keep users ...