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Business / Tech Aug 21, 2019

Stalked by ads?: Facebook rolls out tool it claims blocks tracking of users' activities while off-site

Soon, you could get fewer familiar ads following you around the internet — or at least on Facebook. Facebook is launching a long-promised tool that lets you limit what the social network can gather about you from websites and apps outside of it, by disconnecting ...

Business / Corporate Aug 14, 2019

Recruit Career sold job applicants' browsing data to dozens of firms without consent

Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. are among dozens of companies that bought data detailing the job-hunting activities of potential hires, it was learned Tuesday. The data related to the probability of student job-hunters declining informal job offers. It was compiled by employment data ...

Business / Tech Aug 2, 2019

Google halts Assistant speech transcription in EU after German regulator starts probe

Google has given reassurances that it won't make transcripts of speech data picked up by its Google Assistant system in the European Union for at least the next three months, a German data-protection authority said Thursday. The office of Johannes Caspar, who as Hamburg's commissioner ...

World / Crime & Legal Aug 2, 2019

Accused Seattle hacker of Capital One tied to threat to shoot up California social media firm

The Seattle woman accused of a massive hack of personal and financial data from Capital One Financial Corp. threatened to shoot up an unnamed California social media company, according to court records. Paige Thompson, 33, was arrested during a raid of her house Monday morning ...

National Feb 1, 2019

Real-time map shows pollen counts across Japan

The Environment Ministry on Friday published real-time airborne pollen counts across Japan for the first time this year, via an online map. The service will be available through the end of May at kafun.taiki.go.jp. "I want people to use it to avoid developing hay fever and ...

World / Crime & Legal Jan 8, 2019

20-year-old suspect arrested over massive hack of German politicians' data

German police said Tuesday they arrested a 20-year-old suspect in the case of private data stolen from hundreds of politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, and published online. "The prosecutor's office in Frankfurt, the Central Office for Fighting Internet and Computer Crime and the Federal Police ...

Business Dec 13, 2018

U.S. accuses Chinese intelligence of being behind massive Marriott hack

The United States said Wednesday that China was behind a massive hack of data from hotel giant Marriott, as part of an ongoing global campaign of cybertheft run by Beijing. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed to Fox News' "Fox & Friends" program that the ...

National / Science & Health Aug 23, 2017

Government mulls setting up AI center to analyze genetic data of dementia patients

The government may set up a data center to analyze the genomes of dementia patients utilizing artificial intelligence to interpret vast amounts of information, assist doctors and prescribe treatments.

Business Oct 7, 2015

Snooping worries lead top EU court to ditch U.S. data transfer deal used by thousands of firms

The EU's highest court struck down a deal that allows thousands of companies to easily transfer personal data from Europe to the United States, in a landmark ruling on Tuesday that follows revelations of mass U.S. government snooping. Many companies, both U.S. and European, use ...