When Mary Kay Schoen reserved an apartment in Seattle through Airbnb, her confirmation came with a peppy prompt: “Let’s add your ID!”
“This seems like an outrageous and unwise request,” Schoen says. “We’d be happy to show our government ID to our host or even mail a paper copy. But we don’t want it online.”
Schoen, a poet from Alexandria, Va., makes a valid point. In the first half of 2019, cybersecurity firm NortonLifeLock reported an astounding 3,800 data breaches, up 58 percent from the previous six-month period. Read More...
Explore More Frenchman Stéphane Breitwieser was an art junkie, and to get his fix, he stole some 239 works of art with an estimated value of a whopping $2 billion — from as many as 200 museums all over Europe.
One of the valuable pieces was the old master painting “Sybille, Princess of Cleves,” by the artist Lucas Cranach the Elder, painted in 1526 and stolen from the New Castle in Baden-Baden, Germany. Read More...
A scenario familiar to any parent: Dina Badie and her 3-year-old daughter were in the car on the way home from a music class when the toddler asked if she could listen to her favorite song from the “Rapunzel” soundtrack. Badie pulled up the song on her phone, but it took a moment before the sound piped through the car’s speakers.
“By the time I turned it up, the song was, I don’t know, five or six seconds in,” she says. Read More...
