Many consumers assume that free apps earn revenue through advertising. However, some popular mobile applications generate additional income by collecting and sharing user data—including information about driving habits. Privacy advocates, regulators, and consumer protection groups have increasingly raised concerns about how driving behavior data gathered through smartphone apps can ultimately influence auto insurance underwriting decisions....
The Viral Video That Exposed a Larger Policy Problem A viral video from Georgia has turned a local land dispute into a national debate over property rights and corporate subsidies. In the footage, a young woman describes how her mother’s home in Coweta County is being taken through eminent domain so that Georgia Power can...
If you’ve been paying attention to the tech industry over the past couple of years, you already know the drill. A major company — one with a name you definitely recognize, one that spent the better part of the last decade telling you that its people were its greatest asset — announces a round of...
Every time you pull out of your driveway and drive down a public road in America, there is a reasonable chance you are being photographed, catalogued, and fed into a privately-operated nationwide database — without a warrant, without your consent, and without any meaningful oversight. The company doing it is called Flock Safety. You’ve probably...
A Los Angeles jury has found two of the world’s most powerful tech companies liable for addicting a young woman to their platforms. Thousands of similar cases await. And if the plaintiff’s bar has anything to say about it, this is only the opening salvo. LOS ANGELES — Let’s be honest with ourselves for a...