Stories by johnshades

How Facebook is quietly paying teens to gather their data after an App Store ban

Douglas Rushkoff: don't learn to code, just be human

Risky software is inspiring creative ways to hack transparency

Machine learning is a sweet way to tell if your honey is fake

A lawsuit would reveal how the Trump administration spies on social media

Read the privacy demands that Amazon-investing nuns sent to Jeff Bezos

Nine innovations creeping us out in 2019

NSA expert on the new ways we could get hacked (and defended) in 2019

A New York City lawmaker is taking on companies that mine your face

Facebook pays $238k to settle lawsuit and will halt political ads in WA state

Take off for the world’s first passenger flights without any single-use plastic

The U.S. is spending millions to solve mystery sonic attacks on diplomats

The prison-reforming First Step Act has a critical software bug

Mozilla’s privacy-first mobile browser just got a lot easier to use

It’s not over: Russia’s divisive Instagram memes are still racking up likes

My strange trip inside Elon Musk’s first underground highway

Tumblr’s NSFW castaways are flocking to these lifeboats as a ban looms

7 digital privacy tools you need to be using now

Steph Curry: “I am going to educate myself... on everything that NASA has done”

The frantic, unprecedented race to save 700,000 NSFW Tumblrs for posterity

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