Joe Petviashvili

The Billboard Liberation Front today announced a major new advertising improvement campaign executed on behalf of clients AT&T and the National Security Agency.

“All of a sudden, Yahoo and Google want to make it easy for you to opt out of their ad targeting on both their sites and across the Web.”

“A source close to the company tells us that this announcement will be huge because Loopt is working on a location-based ad network of some kind.”

“Today at Black Hat in Las Vegas, security researcher [Nate Lawson] presented not just the privacy problems with FasTrak, but why absolutely no transaction from the tag should be trusted.”

So we’ve been increasingly concerned about developments at Facebook over the last few months that allow advertisers to post ads using my picture and name to endorse their products without my explicit permission. I’ve received literally dozens of emails from more...

Imagine a time in the future when keychain USB sticks hold petabytes of data and you can download every movie ever made to your cell phone in a matter of seconds. All it takes is one disgruntled Google employee with more...

“Banksy pulled off an audacious stunt to produce what is believed to be his biggest work yet in central London.”

“1. Adding the even handlers after the page has loaded. There may be a technical reason, but it's just creepy. 2. Sending volumes of information back after each click. There really needs to be a limit. Do you really need more...

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WHAT IF GOOGLE WERE EVIL? Cory Doctorow imagines the worst

The Biographicon is for everyone's biography. Including yours.

The most active "user" on the news.YC turned out to be the site creator. Wow. Especially after his most recent essay on intellectual honesty.

every time a user adds their account to the program to back up their data, it sends and email with their username and password to his personal email box!