By Larry Magid This article first appeared on The Mercury News. In 2015 Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that prohibited California police and other state agencies from searching our phones and online accounts without our consent, a court order, or showing it is an...
Listen to Larry’s 1-minute CBS News Tech Talk segment about Facebook’s new tools By Larry Magid In 2010, ConnectSafely helped organize two meetings with Facebook staff over how the service could help prevent suicides. One meeting was at the company’s...
I got the following email from a relative of mine this week and it immediately sounded an alarm in my head. “Was on phone for hours with Yahoo tech in Texas. Apparently, my Yahoo account was hacked from outside the state several times and their own security system...
We recently helped a 17-year-old get a topless photo and fake profile removed from a social networking site. But even though content was deleted from the service, the picture and fake profile lived on as “cached” or archived content in the Google Search...
Online fake news and “urban legends” have been around for decades but it’s become a major issue in the wake of the 2016 presidential election. During this period, millions of people were exposed to fake stories about the candidates, often posted on...
Listen to Larry Magid’s interview with Quilliam’s director of public policy, Jonathan Russell Today’s column is from the 11th annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF), this year in Guadalajara, Mexico. IGF is a United Nations-sponsored “multi-stakeholder”...
