On April 29th, 2025 with 71 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Automakers are increasingly pushing consumers to accept monthly and annual fees to unlock preinstalled safety...
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On October 31st, 2019 with 22 comments
Incognito Mode for Google Maps is rolling out to Android users to prevent your search queries and real-time tracked location from being recorded onto your...
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On May 29th, 2019 with 78 comments
Google's new confidential mode is rolling out to G Suite users and will be turned on by default starting on June 25th. Personal account holders have been able...
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On March 25th, 2019 with 47 comments
Almost all of Gmail's IFTTT routines and actions will stop working at the end of the month as Google alters the Gmail API to make it more secure. The only...
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On June 3rd, 2018 with 17 comments
Earlier this week, Snap's CEO Evan Spiegel publicly addressed Facebook's long-standing practice of copying his company's products, joking that Facebook should...
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On May 4th, 2018 with 98 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: A new update rolling out for Gmail offers a "self destruct" feature that allows users to send messages...
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On April 11th, 2018 with 22 comments
An Instagram spokesperson has confirmed to TechCrunch that the site will soon let users download a copy of what they've shared on Instagram, including their...
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On January 31st, 2018 with 201 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The online dating service Tinder must change one of its key monetization strategies. A Los Angeles...
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On December 3rd, 2015 with 32 comments
Donald Robertson, is the Free Software Foundation (FSF) copyright administrator (and wearer of several other hats as well), so he's the FSF person to turn to...
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On December 2nd, 2015 with 39 comments
We all know (or know about) Richard M. Stallmann, founder of and vociferous spokesman for the Free Software Foundation. But the organization is far from a...
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On July 30th, 2015 with 90 comments
Kim Dotcom was the founder of Megaupload, its successor Mega, and New Zealand's Internet Party. A while ago you had a chance to ask him about those things as...
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On June 22nd, 2015 with 233 comments
Larry Lessig's Mayday PAC is a SuperPac that is working to eliminate the inherent corruption of having a government run almost entirely by people who manage...
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On March 20th, 2015 with 86 comments
Tom Henderson, Principal Researcher at ExtremeLabs Inc., is not a cloud fan. He is a staunch privacy advocate, and this is the root of his distrust of...
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On March 6th, 2015 with 367 comments
In Texas, guns are a common sight:gun-racks are visible in the back of many pick-ups, and pistols, cannons, and rifles are part of the state's iconography....
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On October 13th, 2014 with 187 comments
Florian Mueller is a blogger, software developer and former consultant who writes about software patents and copyright issues on his FOSSPatents blog. In 2004...
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On October 13th, 2014 with 622 comments
Bennett Haselton writes As commenters continue to blame Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities for allowing their
nude photos to be stolen, there is only one...
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On November 21st, 2013 with 276 comments
By now, most Americans have either heard or learned firsthand that the Healthcare.gov website doesn't work right. Slings, arrows, and brickbats are being slung...
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On October 7th, 2013 with 871 comments
In response to both of my previous articles raising questions about the Fifth Amendment, people
sent me a link to a famous video titled "Don't Talk To Cops"...
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On August 1st, 2013 with 9 comments
This started as a basic, "Tell us how your service can help Slashdot readers who might want to go go into business," interview, but quickly morphed into...
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On July 18th, 2013 with 51 comments
Declan Mccullagh, C|net's Chief political correspondent, has covered politics since the late 1990s for a variety of publications. He is a strong libertarian,...
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On June 24th, 2013 with 78 comments
A few weeks ago you had the chance to ask James Logan, the founder of Personal Audio, about the business, the patents the company holds, and the lawsuits it...
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On June 5th, 2013 with 50 comments
Peter Wayner is no stranger to Slashdot. Not only that, he's written a bunch of books, plus articles for InfoWorld, PC World, the New York Times, and many...
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On February 14th, 2013 with 72 comments
Republican staffer Derek Khanna was thrust into the spotlight in December for being fired after submitting a controversial brief titled: Three Myths about...
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On January 28th, 2013 with 307 comments
Frequent contributor Bennett Haselton writes "With the announcement of
Verizon's "six strikes plan"
for
movie pirates
(which includes reporting users to the...
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On October 8th, 2012 with 37 comments
Discussions about ethics and technology are perennial Slashdot staples. But if you want to frequent a site that is about ethics and technology and almost...
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On September 14th, 2012 with 232 comments
CowboyNeal writes: "It seems like the news on everyone's favorite most resilient BitTorrent site never
ends, as we approach its ninth birthday in just a...
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On August 20th, 2012 with 157 comments
This past week, SCO
filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which finally begins the end of a long saga
that started over nine years ago. While their anti-IBM...
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On August 20th, 2012 with 172 comments
Have you ever been handcuffed and wish you weren't? Even if you haven't, what if you plan to demonstrate at a political party convention in the next couple of...
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On July 15th, 2012 with 29 comments
In a world increasingly dominated by the cloud, privacy is often
sacrificed for convenience. Imagine a world where you could use
cloud services without...
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On June 26th, 2012 with 50 comments
Regular contributor Bennett Haselton writes "As Google releases more data about their compliance with requests from foreign governments, they should clarify...
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