Everything you watch, everywhere you go.

Some companies are already testing this new technology, but it raises questions about how surveillance can be abused, writes data consultant Dylan Curran

Legal experts believe Facebook profiling may run afoul of federal law on credit checks.

Chinese authorities apply facial-recognition programs to surveillance videos to identify subjects. Now, a report says Chicago and Detroit have purchased their own systems.

From exploding Ford Pintos to racist algorithms, all harmful technologies are a product of unethical design. Yet, like car companies in the ’70s, today’s tech companies would rather bla…

ESPN and the New York Times are exploring how to match marketing to their users’ emotions

School districts are spending more on social media monitoring technology, but there is little evidence it is keeping students safer.

Separating the fact from the fiction of China’s social credit system.

In a work context, surveillance and data collection raise issues that go beyond privacy concerns based on individual rights

"Consent" is a function of power WHOODATHUNKIT

We are much more likely to give consent than we think.

Compartmentalizing our distinct personal identities is increasingly difficult in big data reality. Pictures of the person we were on past vacations resurface in employers’ Google searches; LinkedIn which exhibits our income level is increasingly used as a dating web site. Whether on vacation, at work, or seeking romance, our digital selves stream together. One result is that a perennial ethical question about personal identity has spilled out of philosophy departments and into the real world. Ought we possess one, unified identity that coherently integrates the various aspects of our lives, or, incarnate deeply distinct selves suited to different occasions and contexts? At bottom, are we one, or many? The question is not only palpable today, but also urgent because if a decision is not made by us, the forces of big data and surveillance capitalism will make it for us by compelling unity. Speaking in favor of the big data tendency, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg promotes the ethics of an integrated identity, a single version of selfhood maintained across diverse contexts and human relationships. This essay goes in the other direction by sketching two ethical frameworks arranged to defend our compartmentalized identities, which amounts to promoting the dis-integration of our selves. One framework connects with natural law, the other with language, and both aim to create a sense of selfhood that breaks away from its own past, and from the unifying powers of big data technology.

LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, a Virginia-based firm, gathered information on more than 600 family separation demonstrations across the country.

Note: Read about past updates to this technology in other blog posts about Intelligent Tracking Prevention, and the Storage Access API.

ASU officials have rebutted an economics professor's claims about unethical practices, but the school has changed course on some previous statements.

If higher education is to "save the web," we need to let students envision that something else is possible, and we need to enact those practices in cl

Companies use recommendation engines to tell you what to buy, read, and watch. But those algorithms aren’t your friends.

Duke MTMC is a dataset of surveillance camera footage of students on Duke University campus

Thanks to “data inference” technology, companies know more about you than you disclose.