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Facebook is not alone in making everyone’s data available for whatever purpose
Most companies that trade in the sale and manipulation of personal information are private and beholden to few rules other than the bare minimum of…
The story of how the Electronic Frontiers Foundation became so EFF’d up
EFF has taken millions in funds from Google and Facebook via straight donations and controversial court payouts that many see as under-the-radar contributions. Hell, Google…
All watched over by machines, Surveillance Valley
Google building military drones, Facebook watching us all, and Amazon making facial recognition software for the police, need to be understood not as aberrations. Rather,…
Survival of the Richest
Taking their cue from Elon Musk colonizing Mars, Peter Thiel reversing the aging process, or Sam Altman and Ray Kurzweil uploading their minds into supercomputers,…
Digital ads are starting to feel psychic
It seems like everyone these days has had a paranoiac moment where a website advertises something to you that you recently purchased or was gifted…
Facebook is working on technology that allows users to type straight from their thoughts
Facebook is working on technology that allows users to type straight from their thoughts without having to lift a finger to work the keyboard. Regina…
How Fracking Companies Use Facebook Surveillance to Ban Protest
Facebook is being used by oil and gas companies to clamp-down on protest. Three companies are currently seeking injunctions against protesters: British chemical giant INEOS,…
How Smart TVs in Millions of US Homes Track More Than What’s on Tonight
The growing concern over online data and user privacy has been focused on tech giants like Facebook and devices like smartphones. But people's data is…
We’ve Reached ‘Peak Screen,’ voice next
We've hit what I call Peak Screen. For much of the last decade, a technology industry ruled by smartphones has pursued a singular goal of…
Private investigators call for people to contribute their DNA to public database
Last month DNA-based investigations also led to the arrest of the suspected murderer of two vacationers in 1987, and helped identify a suicide cold case…
UK Police Plan To Deploy ‘Staggeringly Inaccurate’ Facial Recognition in London
Millions of people face the prospect of being scanned by police facial recognition technology that has sparked human rights concerns. The controversial software, which officers…
Facebook, Google, and Microsoft Use Design to Trick You Into Handing Over Your Data, New Report Warns
A study from the Norwegian Consumer Council dug into the underhanded tactics used by Microsoft, Facebook, and Google to collect user data. "The findings include…
Study finds “we’re all getting dumber”
Researchers at Norway’s Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research now have scientific proof of something we’ve long suspsected—we’re all getting dumber. In their paper, “Flynn…
MIT’s AI Can Track Humans Through Walls With Just a Wifi Signal
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new piece of software that uses wifi signals to monitor the movements, breathing, and heartbeats…
Chinese city gets ‘smartphone zombie’ walkway
A city in northern China has introduced a special pedestrian lane on one of its roads, exclusively for slow-walking smartphone users, it's reported. According to…
“5 Years on, US Government Still Counting Snowden Leak Costs”
The top U.S. counterintelligence official said journalists have released only about 1 percent taken by the 34-year-old American, ... "This past year, we had more…
Facebook gave firms broad access to data on users, friends
Facebook reportedly formed data-sharing partnerships with dozens of device makers, including Apple and Samsung, giving them access to information on users, as well as on…
Top YouTube creators burn out mentally
Three weeks ago, Bobby Burns, a YouTuber with just under one million subscribers, sat down on a rock in Central Park to talk about a…
Google plan for data-driven ‘smart city’ sparks privacy, democracy concerns
In the Canadian city of Toronto, city officials are negotiating a project that will give a section of the city's waterfront to the US tech…
Screen watching at all-time high
With Netflix and Amazon Prime, Facebook Video and YouTube, it's tempting to imagine that the tech industry destroyed TV. The world is more than 25…