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In an age of school shootings, where is the line between safety and surveillance?
Siding against Google, Mississippi's highest court has refused to halt a privacy lawsuit brought against the company by Attorney General Jim Hood.
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Biometrics are moving way beyond fingerprints: To fight fraud, companies are building databases on people’s behaviors and movements.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to. An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you've used privacy settings that say they will prevent it from doing so.
In May 2008, Facebook announced what initially seemed like a fun, whimsical addition to its platform: People You May Know.
Just beyond the automatic sliding doors of the Robert W. Van Houten Library, you’ll find shelves teeming with books, dissertations and literary journals, a front…
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Thoughts on the Age of Surveillance.
Scooter companies Spin, Bird, and Lime are racing to gather your personal data, and have failed to take the time and steps necessary to properly address rider privacy.
A new set of technical updates, commercial webinars and sales pitches from Cellebrite outline the company's drive into IoT.
Networks of New York author Ingrid Burrington points out all the devices around us that are watching our every move.
The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents
Samba TV, which has deals to put its software on sets made by about a dozen TV brands, uses viewing data to make personalized show recommendations. But that’s not the big draw for advertisers.
For 20 years, privacy advocates have been sounding the alarm about commercial online surveillance, the way that companies gather deep dossiers on us to help marketers target us with ads. This pitch…
In April 2017, Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote an interesting article in the New Yorker . Titled ‘ AI versus MD ’ the article discussed the...
PALO ALTO, CA—All 1,472 employees of Facebook, Inc. reportedly burst out in uncontrollable laughter Wednesday following Albuquerque resident Jason Herrick's attempts to protect his personal information from exploitation on the social-networking site. "Look, he's clicking 'Friends Only' for his e-mail address. Like…
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