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UK Spy Agency MI5 ‘Breached Surveillance Laws For More Than A Decade’
A UK tribunal has been told that security service MI5 has been breaching surveillance laws since 2010, and unlawfully obtaining bulk surveillance warrants against the…
Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to touch live plug with penny
Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it "challenged" a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug. The…
How belief in AI sentience is becoming a problem
AI chatbot company Replika, which offers customers bespoke avatars that talk and listen to them, says it receives a handful of messages almost every day…
‘Hit the kill switch’: Uber used covert tech to thwart government raids
Twenty minutes after authorities raided Uber’s Amsterdam office in April 2015, Ligea Wells’s computer screen mysteriously went blank. The executive assistant tapped out a text…
Uber bosses told staff to use ‘kill switch’ during raids to stop police seeing data
Senior executives involved in global operation to thwart law enforcement, leaked files reveal. Senior executives at Uber ordered the use of a “kill switch” to…
Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals
More than 124,000 confidential documents leaked to the Guardian; Files expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne; Emmanuel Macron secretly aided…
Violence guarantees success: how Uber exploited taxi protests
Leak suggests former CEO believed there was an upside to attacks on drivers as firm campaigned for law changes. Uber broke laws, duped police and…
Autism among American children and teens surged 50% in three years from 2017, with one in 30 kids diagnosed with the disorder by 2020, study finds
The number of children in the United States being diagnosed with autism has rocketed in recent years, a new study finds. Researchers Guangdong Pharmaceutical University,…
How Beijing’s surveillance cameras crept into widespread use across UK schools, hospitals and government buildings
In the confines of his small cell, Ovalbek Turdakun was watched 24/7. At any attempt to speak to others he was instantly told to be…
Surveillance Tech Didn’t Stop the Uvalde Massacre
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, of which Robb is a member, followed this conventional wisdom and embraced modern security solutions at its schools. Indeed,…
Is Social Media Training Us to Please a Machine?
"We tend to think that the internet is a communications network we use to speak to one another — but in a sense, we're not…
TikTokers Are Accused of Starting Forest Fires For Views
Humaira Asghar, known as "Dolly" to her 11.5 million TikTok fans, faces charges for allegedly setting a forest fire while shooting a TikTok video in…
Neoliberalism Has Poisoned Our Minds, Study Finds
The dominance of neoliberalism is turning societies against income equality. At least, that’s according to a study published Tuesday in Perspectives on Psychological Science. A…
San Francisco Police Are Using Driverless Cars as Mobile Surveillance Cameras
For the last five years, driverless car companies have been testing their vehicles on public roads. These vehicles constantly roam neighborhoods while laden with a…
Virginia Police Routinely Use Secret GPS Pings To Track People’s Cell Phones
The nonprofit online news site Virginia Mercury investigated their state police departments' "real-time location warrants," which are "addressed to telephone companies, ordering them to regularly…
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the New York University's School of Business, argues in the Atlantic that social-media platforms "trained users to spend more…
The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States
Brian Hochman (2022)Wiretapping is nearly as old as electronic communications. Telegraph operators intercepted enemy messages during the Civil War. Law enforcement agencies were listening to…
Because of the Internet, ‘We Are All Cranks Now’
...from the characters of Dickens to Grandpa Simpson, recently it seems that the figure of the crank has dropped away from the public imagination. Now,…
The White House is briefing TikTok stars about the war in Ukraine
This week, the administration began working with Gen Z For Change, a nonprofit advocacy group, to help identify top content creators on the platform to…
Some Amazon Ring Customers Demand Drivers Dance, Then Post Videos Online
Some Amazon customers are now explicitly asking the company's drivers to deliver a performance along with the package. They are posting signs to their front…