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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)
The House and Senate are both pushing forward with the so-called “EARN IT” Act, a bill that will undermine encryption and free speech online. Attor... (2020)
As we shelter in place in the pandemic, more employers are using software to track our work — and us. (2020)
It was another black mark on the privacy record of the social network, which also reported its quarterly earnings. “ Facebook said on Wednesday ... (2020)
The city, stepping into a debate over privacy, says it will use real-time facial recognition technology “to tackle serious crime.” (2020)
By uploading their children’s genetic information on public websites, parents are forever exposing their personal health data. (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)
DuckDuckGo has been a profitable company since 2014 without storing or sharing any personal information on people using our search engine. As we li... (2019)
There are strong parallels between organised abuse of Facebook and FB’s attempts to respond, in the last 24 months, and malware on Windows and Offi... (2019)
The agency found many users of the app, now known as TikTok, were under 13 and revealed sensitive personal information without their parents’ permi... (2019)
For starters, Google invented an entire virtual machine – essentially a simulated computer inside a computer – just to run that checkbox... Goog... (2019)
Getting a “throwaway” email for online booking is one tip experts offer. Another: Consider signing up for a credit card only for online purchases. (2019)
Facebook’s chief executive has asserted control over its sprawling divisions and mandated the social network’s messaging services be knitted together. (2019)
In late November, hotel conglomerate Marriott International disclosed that the personal information of some 500 million customers — including home ... (2019)
Proponents of the chips say they're safe and largely protected from hacking, but one scientist is raising privacy concerns around the kind of perso... (2018)
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)
Smarter sets could mean more niche programming and fewer annoying ads, says the TV industry. Privacy advocates worry consumers are being kept in th... (2018)
Data workers of the world, unite “DATA SLAVERY.” Jennifer Lyn Morone, an American artist, thinks this is the state in which most people now live... (2018)
The justices ruled 5-4 that police need a search warrant to obtain cellphone location information routinely collected by wireless providers. (2018)
A reporter’s effort to erase her genetic footprint gets snared in a thicket of policies and rules. (2018)
AI advances by the 'Medical Brain' team could help the internet giant finally break into the health-care business (2018)
With large majorities of all children (70% in the U.S. and U.K.) staying home from school during the COVID-19 crisis, use of digital media properti... (2020)
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)
If you're not paying, you're not the customer--you're the product. (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)
Pavel Durov is the founder and CEO of Telegram. OUTLINE:(00:00) - Introduction(02:46) - Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections(11:13) - Philosophy ... (2025)
Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. Today’s episode is all about crypto security — that is, the new mindsets and the new strategie... (2021)
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)
Given concern around data breaches, the EU Parliament finally passed GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) after four years of preparation and ... (2018)