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Kids These Days Get 4,500 Notifications and Hate Facebook, New Study Says
The kids are not all right and are being subject to a firehouse of pinging in the thick of the Information Age. A new report reveals that children are getting upwards of 4,500 notifications a day and have some predictable favorite (and least favorite) apps. The report comes from Common Sense Media and C.S. Mott…
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Court Finds That Teenage Hackers Were Central to Data Breaches of Uber, Nvidia, and Rockstar Games
It’s official: a band of British teenagers managed to hack some of the biggest companies on the planet last year, and they did it all using fairly basic hacking techniques. That news comes via recently concluded court proceedings in London, where jury members have just convicted two teens of having been members of the notorious…
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Instagram Gets Off the Hook for Copyright Claims on Embedded Photos
Just how much copyright protection should an artist or photographer expect after they post their work on social media? It’s a murky legal question by itself that’s now made even murkier as an appeals court digs directly into the nature of HTML to say that—no—that embedded photo isn’t a copy of the original photo, but…
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France Passes New Bill Allowing Police to Remotely Activate Cameras on Citizens’ Phones
Amidst ongoing protests in France, the country has just passed a new bill that will allow police to remotely access suspects’ cameras, microphones, and GPS on cell phones and other devices.