Tech Talk Tuesdays on VOCM’s Early Drive Show with Claudette Barnes is a weekly tech spot highlighting the latest tech news and gadget reviews. On this episode we discuss virtual assistants and the privacy trade-offs that come with this convenience.
Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
With two billions users Facebook is a modern day technology treasure trove of private and personal information. Even though the company has been under intense scrutiny for previous privacy issues, people keep logging in, sharing, liking and posting their personal information. Now a new privacy scandal has emerged motivating a …..
Online Translation Privacy Risks
Say you need a quick document translation. You choose an online tool like translate.com or Google Translate, pick the language you want, copy your text, drop the text in, and presto! In moments you can read a version in your desired tongue. Great, right? Not if your translating personal, private, …..
Is Your ISP Selling Your Browsing History?
Privacy protections designed to prevent U.S. internet service providers from sharing or selling subscribers’ personal information with third parties — without permission — was removed by U.S. Congress on last week. For people living in the United States this now means that information about the apps internet subscribers use, the …..
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