Update: Evernote has reversed course on its previous plan to make machine-learning an opt-out system. Instead, they company will allow customers to opt-in to allowing their notes to be used for machine learning. “[W]e will make machine learning technologies available to our users, but no employees will be reading note …
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Update: Niantic stated the following to Ars Technica in addressing this topic: “We recently discovered that the Pokémon Go account creation process on iOS erroneously requests full access permission for the user’s Google account. However, Pokémon Go only accesses basic Google profile information (specifically, your user ID and e-mail address) and …
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It looks like those 500 million hacked Yahoo accounts may affect its sale to Verizon (TechCrunch’s parent). At a company public policy round table in DC this afternoon, Verizon general counsel Craig Silliman said: “I think we have a reasonable basis to believe right now that the impact is material …
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Opera has rolled out a set of privacy features to its data-saving proxy for Android, Opera Max. It’s now billing it as a “data management and privacy app”. The company previewed the new privacy mode last month, saying it would be starting a gradual rollout — with the feature first available in Samsung’s S Secure mode on the Samsung Galaxy J5 …
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