You could be forgiven for thinking that Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a law created to fill your inbox with identikit warnings from every...The Guardian From ACM News | May 21, 2018
In an unprecedented attack of candour, Sean Parker, the 38-year-old founding president of Facebook, recently admitted that the social network was founded not to...The Guardian From ACM News | March 5, 2018
Fitness-tracking company Strava has defended its publication of heatmaps that accidentally reveal sensitive military positions, arguing that the information was...The Guardian From ACM News | January 29, 2018
Apple has removed the New York Times app from its store in China after a government request, in an example of how far the company will go to please the authorities...The Guardian From ACM News | January 5, 2017
The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) ruled on Wednesday that laws allowing for the blanket collection and retention of location and traffic data are...The Guardian From ACM News | December 21, 2016
Here's what you don’t want to do late on a Sunday night. You do not want to type seven letters into Google. That's all I did.
The Guardian From ACM News | December 7, 2016
Genevieve Bell is an Australian anthropologist who has been working at tech company Intel for 18 years, where she is currently head of sensing and insights.
The Guardian From ACM Opinion | November 29, 2016
A botched attempt to break into the iPhone of an Arab activist using hitherto unknown espionage software has triggered a global upgrade of Apple's mobile operating...The Guardian From ACM News | August 26, 2016
A little-known web standard that lets site owners tell how much battery life a mobile device has left has been found to enable tracking online, a year after ...The Guardian From ACM News | August 2, 2016
Hackers have again demonstrated that no matter how many security precautions someone takes, all a hacker needs to track their location and snoop on their phone...The Guardian From ACM News | April 18, 2016
Machines could put more than half the world's population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial...The Guardian From ACM News | February 16, 2016
The British army is creating a special force of Facebook warriors, skilled in psychological operations and use of social media to engage in unconventional warfare...The Guardian From ACM News | February 4, 2015
Within the salons of the Elysée Palace, along the corridors of the European parliament and under the glass dome of the Reichstag, Old Europe is preparing for a...The Guardian From ACM News | July 7, 2014
My legal saga started last summer with a knock at the door, behind which stood two federal agents ready to to serve me with a court order requiring the installation...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | May 22, 2014
"The history of materials is a history of mistakes," says Mark Miodownik, a materials scientist at University College London, who traces his own fascination with...The Guardian From ACM News | April 17, 2014
The developer who introduced the "Heartbleed" vulnerability to the open-source code used by thousands of websites has told the Guardian it was an "oversight"—but...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | April 11, 2014
Google is predicting a generation of screenless computing devices that rely on voice recognition, a senior engineer has said, emphasising that the company encrypts...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | December 10, 2013
Google is hoping to inspire children's interest in quantum computing by using one of their favourite digital pastimes: Minecraft.The Guardian From ACM Careers | October 23, 2013
We're four days away now. After a year of pre-publicity and a five-year wait since GTA IV, the latest instalment in Rockstar's gangland opus is almost upon us.The Guardian From ACM Opinion | September 13, 2013
The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers,...The Guardian From ACM News | June 6, 2013