QR codes are a privacy problem — but not for the reasons you’ve heard. The little black-and-white squares aren’t inherently bad. October 7, 2021 More than ...

But clicking QR codes too hastily can risk bringing malware to your smartphone, cautions Albert Fox Cahn, founder and executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.).

If there is an internet connection problem on your computer, the Phone Link app won’t generate the QR code. On the other hand, if the app has some internal file issues, you cannot find the QR ...

Just point the camera of your smartphone at a QR code and it will magically pop up a link you can tap to visit the designated website. The problem, however, is that you don't actually know what ...

How QR codes work While you might have only heard about them recently, this technology has been around since the 1990s. They’re essentially a type of code that holds information in a form that ...

Hundreds of QR codes have appeared on boarded-up homes throughout Baltimore over the past month, as part of a city effort to help residents seeking information on vacant properties. Last year, the ...