Fourteen of the world’s most highly regarded information and facts protection specialists have warned that consumer-aspect scanning “is a harmful technological innovation” that threatens democracy. The cryptographers and engineers, whose careers have laid the groundwork for the internet’s elementary stability protocols, have authored a paper titled “Bugs in Our Pockets” […]

When Mark Zuckerberg appeared onscreen at Facebook’s virtual Connect meeting on Thursday, smiling as he wandered through sterile rooms filled with midcentury fashionable home furnishings, he seemed like a male unburdened. Whistle-blower? What whistle-blower? Cascading, yearslong belief crisis that has regulators fuming, staff bailing and lawmakers comparing Facebook to Big […]