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Hacker Can Monitor Cars And Kill Their Engines After Breaking Into GPS Tracking Apps
A hacker broke into thousands of accounts belonging to users of two GPS tracker apps, giving him the ability to monitor the locations of tens…
Applying For Your Next Job May Be an Automated Nightmare
If you think looking for a job is already daunting, anxiety-riddled, and unpleasant, just wait until the algorithms take over the hiring process. When they…
The Feds Are Dropping Child Porn Cases Instead of Revealing Their Surveillance Systems
The Department of Justice has been dismissing child pornography cases in order to not reveal information about the software programs used as the basis for…
Scientists Have Developed a Brain Implant That Can Read People’s Minds
The team at the University of California, San Francisco says the technology is "exhilarating." They add that their findings, published in the journal Nature, could…
Why Energy Is A Big And Rapidly Growing Problem For Data Centers
U.S. data centers use more than 90 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, requiring roughly 34 giant (500-megawatt) coal-powered plants. Global data centers used roughly…
Facial Recognition to board a plane
A boarding technology for travelers using JetBlue is causing controversy due to a social media thread on the airline's use of facial recognition. Last week,…
Google Home calls the Police, always listening
According to ABC News, officers were called to a home outside Albuquerque, New Mexico this week when a Google Home called 911 and the operator…
Our phones make us feel like social-media activists, but they’re actually turning us into bystanders
On April 9, 2017, a video of a man being dragged off a United Airlines flight was posted on the internet and went viral. But…
Microsoft Turned Down Facial-Recognition Sales over “Human Rights Concerns”
Microsoft recently rejected a California law enforcement agency's request to install facial recognition technology in officers' cars and body cameras due to human rights concerns,…
Chinese companies using GPS tracking device smartwatches to monitor, alert street cleaners
Street cleaners in parts of China are reportedly being forced to wear GPS-tracking smartwatches so employers can monitor how hard they work, sparking public outrage…
Tenants Outraged Over New York Landlord’s Plan To Install Facial Recognition Technology
A Brooklyn landlord plans to install facial recognition technology at the entrance of a 700-unit building, according to Gothamist, "raising alarm among tenants and housing…
We’re All Being Judged By a Secret ‘Trustworthiness’ Score
Nearly everything we buy, how we buy, and where we're buying from is secretly fed into AI-powered verification services that help companies guard against credit-card…
Facebook is Demanding Some Users Share the Password For Their Outside Email Account
Just two weeks after admitting it stored hundreds of millions of its users' own passwords insecurely, Facebook is demanding some users fork over the password…
Fake Cancerous Nodes in CT Scans, Created By Malware, Trick Radiologists
Researchers in Israel say they have developed malware to draw attention to serious security weaknesses in critical medical imaging equipment used for diagnosing conditions and…
FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement
One DNA-matching company has decided it's going to corner an under-served market: US law enforcement. FamilyTreeDNA -- last seen here opening up its database to…
Airbnb Has a Hidden-Camera Problem
Airbnb's rules allow cameras outdoors and in living rooms and common areas, but never in bathrooms or anywhere guests plan to sleep, including rooms with…
Facebook Ad Platform Could Be Inherently Discriminatory, Researchers Say
Researchers from Northeastern Unviersity, the University of Southern Carolina, and tech accountability non-profit Upturn have released a paper that says Facebook's ad delivery system itself…
Mark Zuckerberg Leveraged Facebook User Data To Fight Rivals and Help Friends, Leaked Documents Show
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered making deals with third-party developers just to help him find out how much users' data is worth, NBC News…
Facebook Should Notify Users Who Interact With Fake Police ‘Sock Puppet’ Accounts
Despite Facebook's repeated warnings that law enforcement is required to use "authentic identities" on the social media platform, cops continue to create fake and impersonator…
Are Phone-Addicted Drivers More Dangerous Than Drunk Drivers?
After crunching data on 4.5 billion miles of driving, road-safety analytics company Zendrive concludes there's a new threat which just last year claimed the lives…