Geoffrey A. Fowler reports: You may not realize all the ways Amazon is watching you. No other Big Tech company reaches deeper into domestic life. Two-thirds of Americans who shop on Amazon own at least one of its smart gadgets, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners. Amazon now makes (or has acquired) more than two…
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Chegg No Longer Sharing Student Information with Universities to Protect Student Privacy
Caera Learmonth reports: Chegg, a textbook rental and tutoring website that reported over 5.3 million subscribers in August, has stopped providing student information to colleges and professors in an effort to protect student privacy. On Aug. 8, Chegg updated its honor code policy to only provide colleges with dates and time stamps of when questions are posted…
Meta’s VR Headset Harvests Personal Data Right Off Your Face
Khari Johnson reports: In November 2021, Facebook announced it would delete face recognition data extracted from images of more than 1 billion people and stop offering to automatically tag people in photos and videos. Luke Stark, an assistant professor at Western University, in Canada, told WIRED at the time that he considered the policy change a PR…
Google’s ‘Incognito’ Mode Inspires Staff Jokes – and a Big Lawsuit
Malathi Nayak reports: On International Data Privacy Day last year, an email popped into Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai’s inbox from Google’s marketing chief Lorraine Twohill full of ideas on gaining user trust. “Make Incognito Mode truly private,” she wrote in a bullet point. “We are limited in how strongly we can market Incognito because…