Articles written by Barbara Ortutay & Anick Jesdanun
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After Amazon Echo misfire, ways to protect your own privacy
NEW YORK (AP) — Revelations that an Amazon Echo smart speaker inadvertently sent a family's private conversation to an acquaintance highlights some unexpected risks of new voice-enabled technologies. According to Amazon, the fault was an "...
Ad business at stake, Facebook takes baby steps on privacy
NEW YORK (AP) — Engulfed in a scandal over its users' privacy, Facebook has opted to take little more than baby steps to fix the problem. From the company's perspective, that makes perfect sense. Stronger safeguards on user data might damage F...
The blame game, ransomware edition: Who's at fault?
NEW YORK (AP) — From governments to individuals, there's plenty of finger-pointing going on following the latest global cyberattack. Who's being targeted for blame? There's Microsoft, whose ubiquitous Windows operating systems were compromised after...
