On Monday afternoon, a drone enthusiast reportedly flew his or her flying toy into some power lines in West…
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Kashmir Hill is the deputy editor for the Special Projects Desk, which produces investigative work across all of Gizmodo Media Group's web sites. She writes about privacy and technology.
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Earlier this month, we discovered that if you leave an airplane boarding pass lying around, someone could pick it up…
"If you build it, they will come," the famous mantra from Field of Dreams, is a line that data-based businesses…
Earlier this year, I created a completely fake business and then bought it an amazing online reputation. I used a…
Last week, security blogger Brian Krebs freaked the Internet out with a vulnerability in a simple technology that…
When companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe first invited people to send in their DNA for genealogy tracing and…
When I was in high school in the 90s back in those days when the Internet was still new and wondrous, there was a…
Shannon Liss-Riordan, the Boston lawyer who has been doggedly suing Uber and the rest of the on-demand economy for…
For the last ten months, Einar Otto Stangvik has been digitally watching people download detestable files with names…
In a tragic story out of Brazil, a 70-year-old woman was killed when Waze directions led her and her husband into a…
Three years ago, I called Max Schrems, a then 24-year-old law student, the "Austrian thorn in Facebook's side."…
On Tuesday morning, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden announced that he had joined Twitter with a subtle joke…
Sometimes a legal case sits perfectly at the confluence of many strange and novel technological realities. And…
This week, I interviewed NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Awards, an…
When you walk into the Metro Pictures gallery in New York's Chelsea, your eyes will immediately get tangled up in…
If you live in the Bay Area and have looked for something special to spice up a birthday party, you might have…
We live in a reputation economy.
It seems that we're on a mission to make every object in the world "smart," granting trashcans, wine bottles and…
Over the last few years, hackers have set their targets on Internet-connected baby monitors. They have hacked into…
On Wednesday morning, a snuff film went viral on social media channels. The 56-second video, which depicted the 6:45…