Enaible is one of a number of new firms that are giving employers tools to help keep tabs on their employees—but critics fear this kind of surveillance undermines trust.

Black Lives Matter protesters are using Google Docs to share information. What if the government requests access to the company's data?

They were supposed to add accountability to the police. But critics say they're backfiring and could cause a chilling effect on free speech at protests.

You would be forgiven for thinking that the outbreak has seen companies forge new bonds of faith with their workers, and that this is an unexpected silver lining to the chaos wrought by COVID-19. B…

Nature - Protect privacy, equality and fairness in digital contact tracing with these key questions.

Alexa can tell you the weather. Siri knows a few jokes. In China, voice-computing company iFlytek built similar smart assistants beloved by users. But its tech is also helping the government listen in.

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UC Santa Cruz police utilized military surveillance equipment to surveil and police the graduate student 'wildcat' strike earlier this year.

The cost to buy an external webcam can run upwards of $100 and finding a webcam in stock is a challenge with the increase in people working and learni...

Documents obtained under RTI show the govt is planning to use Aadhaar to automatically track every single Indian – from who they marry, address changes, financial status – through the National Social Registry.

India is aiming to gradually reopen the economy, while limiting the spread of COVID-19. But its Aarogya Setu contact-tracing app has raised concerns.

As we shelter in place in the pandemic, more employers are using software to track our work — and us.

I was a guest speaker in the MA in Elearning class at Cork Institute of Technology this morning. Thanks very much to Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin for the invitation. Here's a bit of what I said...

On the day Layla got out of prison and back to her home in Georgia, she was told she would need to purchase a smartphone—not an insignificant task for someone who’d just completed a sentence, but Layla was lucky to have a friend who could buy one for her. She says she was at home in bed a few days later when the app…

Although Apple and Google’s proposals for voluntary, anonymous contact tracing apps have been well received by some, they will likely serve as vehicles for abuse, disinformation, and a false sense …

A sudden switch to online learning reveals a slew of challenges for educators.

Over the past few weeks, Apple & Google have floated the idea of developing and distributing a digital contact-tracing app that will inform people when they’ve been exposed to someone who’s contracted COVID-19, and communicate to people that they’ve been exposed to you if you later test positive yourself (edit: since writing this, Apple has released a beta of iOS 13 that includes the SDK necessary to begin using this system). Writing this in late April and early May, it feels like we’re desperate for information and weary from not knowing who’s caught COVID-19, who’s still vulnerable, who gets it worse or why, or even how to treat it. We’re desperate for any information we can get our hands on. This proposal by Apple and Google promises to give us some information that we can finally start to work off of. This isn’t going to work, and we need to stop this plan before it gets off the ground. I’ll explain why in this post.

A substantial share of the public has opted out of using a product or service because of concerns about how much information would be collected.

Xiaomi is collecting users’ browser habits and phone usage, raising red flags for privacy researchers.