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Mohamed Azakir / Reuters The Desperate Search for Lebanon's Mass Graves
“Everyone knows someone who went missing. But they don’t speak about these things.”
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Eranicle / Alex Gontar / Shutterstock / Marwan … Facebook Vigilantism Is a Scary Thing
“They’re turning suspects into criminals in one click.”
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Aziz Taher / Reuters Who Is Selling Hacking Subscriptions to Governments?
The same powerful surveillance tools have cropped up in at least two countries—and researchers are looking for the missing link.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters Can Cops Force You to Unlock Your Phone With Your Face?
Apple’s new Face ID technology raises questions about constitutional protections for personal devices.
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Jamal Saidi / Reuters How New Technology Is Changing Eid Celebrations
The robust Islamic app economy includes a program for ordering up sacrificial livestock.
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Jeff Chiu / AP The Internet of Things Needs a Code of Ethics
Technology is evolving faster than the legal and moral frameworks needed to manage it.
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Helen King / Getty Hackers Get Back to the Basics
As the costs of complex cyberattacks increase, old-school email tricks are coming back in style.
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Fjola Dogg Thorvalds / Getty A Trick That Hides Censored Websites Inside Cat Videos
The technique uses popular sites as camouflage for banned ones.
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Jeff Chiu / AP Chatbots Have Entered the Uncanny Valley
When virtual assistants almost pass as human, they only seem more robotic.
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Murad Sezer / Reuters When an In-Flight Dispute Turns Into an FBI Interview
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Norm Hall / Getty The Dark Side of Slack’s New Emoji Statuses
The cutesy feature could pressure employees into sharing their every move—both on and off the clock.
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Nam Y. Huh / AP Why Airlines Can Get Away With Bad Customer Service
As much as other types of companies might want to ignore their lowest-margin patrons, most don’t have that luxury.
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Julie Jacobson / AP The Steady Rise of Digital Border Searches
At the current rate, customs agents are on track to increase inspections of travelers’ electronic devices by a third this year.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters An Algorithm That Hides Your Online Tracks With Random Footsteps
Can “polluting” browsing history with fake traffic make it harder for ISPs to spy on you?
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Drew Angerer / Getty When Apps Secretly Team Up to Steal Your Data
An analysis of the top 100,000 Android apps found tens of thousands of pairings that leak sensitive data.
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David Gray / Reuters Avenging a One-Star Review With Digital Sabotage
A dispute over a garage-door opener shows just how much control manufacturers have over your internet-connected things.
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters CSI: Walmart
Some of the best digital-forensics labs don't belong to the police—they're run by banks, tech companies, and retailers.
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Mario Laporta / AFP / Getty Encryption Won’t Stop Your Internet Provider From Spying on You
Data patterns alone can be enough to give away what video you’re watching on YouTube.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Is Trump Still Tweeting From His Unsecured Android Phone?
If so, he’s extremely vulnerable to being hacked.
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Michael Dalder / Reuters When Fingerprints Are as Easy to Steal as Passwords
As hackers learn to imitate the body's unique features, scientists might turn to brainwaves and genomics to verify people's identities.
