Amazon delivery drivers nationwide have to sign a "biometric consent" form this week that grants the tech behemoth permission to use AI-powered cameras to access…

"Late last week, a website called Faces of the Riot appeared online, showing nothing but a vast grid of more than 6,000 images of faces,…

Twitter accounts run by machines are a major source of climate change disinformation that might drain support from policies to address rising temperatures. In the…

A military arm of the intelligence community buys commercially available databases containing location data from smartphone apps and searches it for Americans' past movements without…

Lawmakers and law enforcement agencies around the world, including in the United States, have increasingly called for backdoors in the encryption schemes that protect your…

NSO, a private intelligence company best known for developing and selling governments access to its Pegasus spyware, pitched its contact-tracing system earlier this year, dubbed…

For more than the past year, London-based reporter Rania Dridi and at least 36 journalists, producers and executives working for the Al Jazeera news agency…

Over the last two decades, law enforcement agencies across the United States have been obtaining more and more sophisticated surveillance technologies to collect data. Technologies…

A few years ago, when you saw a security camera, you may have thought that the video feed went to a VCR somewhere in a…

The Council of State said Paris police prefect Didier Lallement should halt "without delay" drone surveillance of gatherings on public roads. The ruling comes weeks…

In the world of TikTok, brands have the opportunity to get products out into the real world - or make stories of them already being…

The international news agency AFP reports on "a violent rampage at a Taiwanese-run iPhone factory in southern India" leading to over 100 arrests. About 2,000…

High-frequency traders are using an experimental type of cable to speed up their systems by billionths of a second, the latest move in a technological…

Australia's Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing Facebook over its use, in 2016 and 2017, of the Onavo VPN app to spy on users…

Facebook told employees this week that it's developing a tool to summarize news articles so users won't have to read them. It also laid out…

At first glance, big corporations appear to be protecting great swaths of U.S. forests in the fight against climate change. JPMorgan Chase & Co. has…

China successfully powered up its "artificial sun" nuclear fusion reactor for the first time, state media reported Friday, marking a great advance in the country's…

The health status of Australia's Great Barrier Reef has officially declined from "significant concern" to "critical" for the first time, the International Union for Conservation…

The U.S. air pollution monitoring network has fallen into disrepair after years of budget cuts and neglect, leaving tens of millions of Americans vulnerable to…

China is massively expanding its weather-control project, and is aiming to be able to cover half the country in artificial rain and snow by 2025,…