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Silicon Valley is piling into the business of snooping. Tech upstarts are selling their wares to America’s police | Business (2023)
Amazon’s Halo Band wearable tracks your voice and body fat, but isn’t helpful The Halo Band asks you to strip down and strap on a microphone so ... (2020)
As we shelter in place in the pandemic, more employers are using software to track our work — and us. (2020)
Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more hum... (2020)
The city, stepping into a debate over privacy, says it will use real-time facial recognition technology “to tackle serious crime.” (2020)
The systems highlight how widespread surveillance has increasingly become a fact of life: Students “should have all the rights, responsibilities an... (2019)
There are no formal rules for what is ethical — or even legal — in the location data business. That needs to change. In the op-ed, Jeff (Foursqu... (2019)
Amazon's new Sidewalk protocol and Apple's experiments with ultra-wideband signal a new battleground that gets Amazon out of the house and Apple in... (2019)
It’s getting easier for city residents to use technology that can report bad drivers who block bike lanes. Welcome to the self-surveillance era of ... (2019)
In our latest privacy experiment, we bought one banana with the new Apple Card — and another with the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa from Chase. Here’s ... (2019)
Metropolitan Police officers set up the camera on a van in Romford, East London, which then cross-checked photos of faces of passers-by against a d... (2019)
In late November, hotel conglomerate Marriott International disclosed that the personal information of some 500 million customers — including home ... (2019)
It takes a photograph of your license plate. (2018)
Under Tim Cook’s leadership, Apple saw just how critical an issue user privacy would become. Now it’s at least as important a feature as shiny indu... (2018)
Cameras are Watching and Machines are Learning: The Beginning An explosion of images and video is creating massive opportunities for understandi... (2018)
A new bill will help its intelligence agencies circumvent encryption. And what starts Down Under won’t necessarily stay there. (2018)
The justices ruled 5-4 that police need a search warrant to obtain cellphone location information routinely collected by wireless providers. (2018)
The time has come. "Google already runs a lot of my online life–it’s my email, my calendar, my go-to map, and all my documents. I use Duck Du... (2018)
The tech industry is fighting a pending measure that’s even stricter than the recently enacted G.D.P.R. It’s called the ePrivacy Regulation. (2018)
More than two dozen civil rights organizations asked the tech giant to stop selling its image recognition system to law enforcement agencies... (2018)
A country taps its past as it leads the way on one of the most pressing issues facing modern democracies: how to regulate the world’s biggest socia... (2018)
A new crop of smartphones has arrived, aiming to improve on the iPhone — not by being better but by being substantially worse. (2018)
Peter Thiel's data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens. The scary thing? Palantir is desperate for new customers. (2018)
The government requires its people to submit finger, eye and facial images. The ID is mandatory for many services, but opponents say it infringes p... (2018)
AI will make workplaces more efficient, safer—and much creepier "WALK UP A set of steep stairs next to a vegan Chinese restaurant in Palo Alto i... (2018)
Amazon and Google have filed patent applications, many still under consideration, that outline how digital assistants can monitor more of what user... (2018)
At the University of Arizona, school officials know when students are going to drop out before they do. The public college in Tucson has been quiet... (2018)
Maybe Better If You Don’t Read This Story on Public WiFi We took a hacker to a café and, in 20 minutes, he knew where everyone else was born, wh... (2014)
A start-up called Skydio has created a consumer drone that flies itself. Its tech is likely to become ubiquitous. “The drone knows your face, yo... (2018)
Will 1,500 Street Cameras Be a Wet Blanket in New Orleans? Residents wonder whether the city’s freewheeling appeal will suffer if bars, clubs an... (2018)
Edward Snowden is an American whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 when he w... (2019)
When your rating matters... (2019)
LastWeekTonight Published on May 19, 2014 John Oliver covers the new European law that would allow people to erase themselves from internet sea... (2018)
An unregulated facial recognition app can probably tell the police your name, and help them find out where you live and who your friends are. (2020)
Listen to this episode from Should This Exist? on Spotify. It’s one of the best weapons we have to contain a pandemic. But can it defe... (2020)