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Karen Navarra was a quiet woman in her sixties who lived alone. She was found beaten to death. The neighbors didn't see anything. But her Fitbit did.
Momus Analytics' predictive scoring system is using race to grade potential jurors on vague qualities like "leadership" and "personal responsibility."
Schools are increasingly adopting surveillance technology to spy on students while they’re at school, at home, or even on their social media. The companies that make these surveillance products and
The little problem with UBC’s big, expensive new tool Last year, UBC introduced a new learning management system. Canvas by Instructure was rolled out to replace the aging and underperforming Blackboard Connect.
With the abysmal state of healthcare in this country, it shouldn’t be surprising that tech companies—specifically those in the app space—have swooped in left and right to solve the ills that the federal government can’t or won’t. Want to monitor your blood pressure? There’s an app for that. Mental health got you down? …
A BuzzFeed News review of Clearview AI documents has revealed the company is working with more than 2,200 law enforcement agencies, companies, and individuals around the world.
How hard will the robots make us work?
Dr Lyndsay Grant, School of Education
Could be the foundation for an assignment based on searching trademark databases for Creepy Shit.
Fearing school shootings, two districts have become the first in the country to replace metal detectors with body scanners from a company called Evolv Technology.
A technology used in a number of prisons could soon be tracking students.
Expert says technology deployed is based on outdated science and therefore is unreliable
Let’s search a Koha catalog for something that isn’t at all controversial: What you search for in a library catalog ought to be only between you and the library — and that, only briefly…
The New Mexico attorney general is taking on Google with a lawsuit claiming it violates students’ privacy.
Chrome is ditching third-party cookies because Google wants your data all to itself | Digital Trends
What looks like a win for privacy may be just the opposite
Mental health data -- Facebook! What could go wrong?
Police convince the son of an arson suspect to upgrade family tracking app Life360 to find evidence that dad was at the scene of a suspicious fire.
Over 100 million women track their menstruation using mobile applications (apps). In addition to comparatively unremarkable personal information such as height and weight, these apps collect intimate data like characteristics of vaginal discharge and cervical position. In exchange, many apps claim t …