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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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Bad news, kiddies. Your phone can and will be used against you in a court of law. More specifically, who you call on…
Your cellphone provider has a homing beacon in your pocket tracking your location with incredible precision. In a sur…
It was an amazing story. Too amazing. An Austrian magazine reported that an 18-year-old was suing her parents for…
For some activists, handmade protest signs and graffiti are passé. Instead, they're employing new technologies like…
On Tuesday, SpaceX founder Elon Musk gave his most detailed plan to date for how he's going to create a human space…
On a Friday in February, a visitor to the website 4chan posted child porn photos to the "international" channel.…
Facebook's Trending Topics box, which tracks what's hot in the news at any given moment, has itself been in the…
When Amy Pittman signed up for the What to Expect app, which promised daily updates about her pregnancy, it asked…
For the last five years, James and Theresa Arnold have been accused of hacking email accounts, stealing identities,…
Facebook's ability to figure out who you know in real life can sometimes be unnerving. The "People You May Know"…
Facebook's ability to figure out the "people we might know" is sometimes eerie. Many a Facebook user has been…
In 2014, when Facebook bought messaging platform WhatsApp for $21.8 billion, many people were worried about the…
In March of last year, Fusion published an article detailing the ways in which Nextdoor, a social network for…
If you're an iPhone or Mac user who has taken precautions to protect your privacy, you shouldn't ignore the most…
In May 2011, James and Theresa Arnold moved into a century-old home in rural Kansas with their two sons. They rented…
The We-Vibe 4 Plus is a rubbery clamp that looks a little like the oversized thumb and forefinger of a Disneyland…
It's Thursday night and I'm on the top floor of the Kink.com castle in San Francisco's Mission District. There's a…
Last week, the Democratic National Convention was thrown into a tizzy when Wikileaks released a searchable database…
When the augmented reality game Pokémon Go launched a few weeks ago, it quickly became a sensation. It was swiftly…