All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation
The legislation hasn’t yet passed everywhere, but all 50 states introducing some form of right to repair legislation is a “tipping point” for the right to repair movement.
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Your Car Spies On You And Rats You Out To Insurance Companies
Even if you’re paying for the product, you’re still the product.
How Google Plans to Push Its Coronavirus Tracing Feature to Android Phones
Android has a notoriously patchy update cycle, so Google is using another method to push a new coronavirus tracing feature to phones without user interaction.
The Challenge of Proximity Apps For COVID-19 Contact Tracing
As part of the nearly unprecedented societal response to COVID-19, such contact tracing apps raise difficult questions about privacy, efficacy, and responsible engineering of technology to advance public health. Above all, we should not trust any application—no matter how well-designed—to solve this crisis or answer all of these questions.
This Company Made a Version of Android That Runs on the iPhone
Corellium was already getting sued by Apple. This probably won’t help things.
It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?
Apple says, “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data — in a single week.
Waste Reduction Law Could Force Manufacturers To Repair Broken Goods
‘Right to repair’ legislation aims to alleviate waste and make products easier to fix.