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23andMe and 6.9M of you
Back in October of this year, we wrote about DNA testing company 23andMe’s reported data breach. Initially thought to “only” impact 1.4 million people, 23andMe has revised that estimate to a whopping 6.9 million impacted users that had data exposed including names, birthdays, locations, pictures, addresses, related family members, but not, as the company has
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Should employees be required to use their personal smartphones for work?
There is a conflict brewing in the workplace that many will view as just another symptom of corporate greed. Regardless of its source it’s about to come to a boil, and Microsoft and the other tech heavy-hitters are turning up the heat whether we are ready or not. To be fair to them, they aren’t
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DNA testing firm hacked, customer data exposed
Back in 2018, a website called MyHeritage was hacked, and even though “only” usernames and passwords of its 92 million customers were stolen at the time, we considered the nightmare scenario of DNA information on 92 million people being stolen. Five years later, that nightmare has been (sorta) realized as DNA testing firm 23andMe confirmed
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The Resurrection of Net Neutrality
Lately it seems like good news is far and few between, so I’m pleased to be able to share this small glimmer of hope with you. The FCC has finally sworn in a fifth commissioner to break the deadlocked committee split 2-2 along party lines that has prevented the FCC from doing practically anything since
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Update your tech vocabulary for 2023
If there is one thing that the Internet excels at, it is putting any information – old and new – literally at your fingertips. Conversely, one of the things it does a terrible job at is qualifying that information, to the point where it becomes increasingly difficult to weed out the good from the bad.
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We sold our souls, but not how you might think.
Part of an occasional series of articles that discuss what I call “The Elephant on the Internet.” One of the things that is becoming readily apparent with the younger generations is a growing disaffection with established religions. According to a study in 2022 performed by the Survey Center on American Life, religious affiliation has been
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