In twinned stories posted over the St. Patrick’s Day weekend, the London Guardian and the New York Times dropped a bombshell that reverberated on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2014, they reported, the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had surreptitiously acquired information from the personal…
A few weeks after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, alt-right luminary Richard Spencer delivered a celebratory address at the National Policy Institute’s annual conference in Washington, D.C. “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!” Spencer chanted to rousing…
In response to Monday’s botched subway bombing in Manhattan, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared to implicate the internet. Pointing out that internet service providers have the technology to track user behavior, Cuomo left hanging in the air the question…
The People’s Republic of China’s crackdown on the video- and phone-chat app Skype offers further evidence of what some call China’s “Great Firewall” of censorship. On November 21, the New York Times reported that Apple had eliminated Skype from its app…
People’s standards of privacy vary, both online and off. Facebook offers a variety of choices in this regard: You may, for instance, keep your family photos off-limits to the general public or specifically block your nonconfrontational, sports-loving cousins from reading your latest…
