What happens at the dining table no longer stays at the dining table. If the city’s servers suddenly always seem to know your go-to drink order, or how you always order extra croutons on your salad – you’re not going crazy. Reservation platform OpenTable is spying on its users and compiling personal information on guests … Read more
AI is all ears. Innovative office tech that utilizes artificial intelligence is listening in on your conversations and runs the risk of leaking company secrets and workplace gossip, turning the tool into a dangerous nuisance. Alex Bilzerian, a researcher and engineer, recently took to X to explain how Otter AI, a platform he used to … Read more
Do you ever get the feeling someone’s watching you? In the age of remote working, employers have imagined new ways to keep tabs on employees — even without them realizing it. “There’s little transparency,” Hayley Tsukayama, the associate director of legislative activism at Electronic Frontier Foundation, told the Washington Post. “Even figuring out what is … Read more
These are some extreme measures. Private investigator Leon Hart, from UK-based InTime Investigations Ltd, has busted more than 5,000 two-timers who prove the lengths cheaters go through to knock their socks off. As a managing director of the company, Hart oversees 250 detectives worldwide, who use GPS, listening devices and other surveillance technologies to track down targets, with … Read more
Cars are getting smarter — which threatens to make drivers more vulnerable to hackers. This means both that hackers can potentially remotely control your vehicle’s systems, and also access your personal information. A smartphone can produce up to 3 gigabytes of data per hour. Recently manufactured cars, on the other hand, can produce up to 25 … Read more
It was a nightmare-bnb. A woman jumped out of her skin after she allegedly discovered a camera in the bedroom of a Florida apartment that she’d rented via Airbnb. A video detailing the alleged spine-tingling find has almost 12.1 million views on TikTok, with viewers wondering if the owners were spying on people in bed. … Read more
DEAR ABBY: I have a new job in a small office. I have never been comfortable meeting new people or learning a new job, so in order to appear friendly, I’d chime in to the office conversations. A couple of times, I have revealed too much of my life. Later, I found out the owner … Read more