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Commentary This article is part of a series on corporate surveillance highlighting civil liberty, privacy, cyber security, safety, and tech-product user exploitation threats associated with connected products that are supported by the Android (Google) OS, Apple iOS, and Microsoft Windows OS. Today, people, businesses, government officials, and law makers are unaware of the business model that supports […]

BRUSSELS—Regulators are set to exercise their new powers by handing out fines and even temporary bans on companies that breach a new EU privacy law, with the first round of sanctions expected by the end of the year, the bloc’s privacy chief said. The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), heralded as the biggest […]

Microsoft Corp. is on track to catch up with Amazon.com Inc. by obtaining top federal security authorizations early next year, bolstering the company’s position in the Pentagon’s winner-take-all competition for a multibillion-dollar cloud computing deal. The software company said Oct. 9 that it will earn the certification required to host the government’s most sensitive and […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Google unveiled the third edition of its Pixel smartphone, a Google Home smart speaker with a display and its first tablet computer on Oct. 9, as it makes a come-from-behind push into hardware. The company’s Android software has gone from being an also-ran to the brains of most of the world’s smartphones and Google […]

Facebook released a smart speaker designed to make video calling easier on Oct.8, but the company’s history of privacy mishaps and the device’s price and limited functionality could slow it from taking on market leaders Amazon.com Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google. The device, known as Portal, comes in $199 and $349 versions and its signature […]

Google will shut down the consumer version of its social network Google+ after announcing data from up to 500,000 users may have been exposed to external developers by a bug that was present for more than two years in its systems. The company said in a blog on Oct. 8 it had discovered and patched […]

October is National Cyber Security Awareness month, a time that the management at Facebook takes very seriously, but implements it in a very not-so-serious way. For more than seven years, the month has been known at Facebook as “Hacktober,” a time when the cybersecurity team plays a month-long game of “trick or treat” with employees to […]