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Amazon - privacy, security, surveillance issues

Amazon - privacy, security, surveillance issues

AI, Surveillance and Privacy - regulation, policy, guardrails

AI, Surveillance and Privacy - regulation, policy, guardrails

Home security, Smart homes and the Internet of Things (IoT)

A collection of articles and videos about Smart homes and the Internet of Things (IoT)

Ring from Amazon - Smart homes and the Internet of Things IoT

A collection of articles and videos about Smart homes and the Internet of Things (IoT)

Privacy, AI and facial recognition, surveillance

Privacy, AI and facial recognition, surveillance

Amazon Alexa - privacy, security, surveillance issues

Amazon Alexa - privacy, security, surveillance issues

Tech + Government: Military, Funding and Silicon Valley

Tech + Government: Military, Funding and Silicon Valley

Spying and Surveillance, Privacy

Spying and Surveillance, Privacy

Clothes, Fashion and Protests, Democracy with AI and facial recognition, surveillance

Clothes, Fashion and Protests, Democracy with AI and facial recognition, surveillance

Protests, Democracy, Privacy, Surveillance, AI and facial recognition

Protests, Democracy, Privacy issues in the age of surveillance, AI and facial recognition software

Palantir

Palantir, the data analytics company co-founded by Peter Thiel

Chatbots on College campuses - smart speakers and AI in education

Chatbots on College campuses - smart speakers and AI in education

School safety - gun violence, police in K12 education

a collection of articles looking at how technology is being used to enhance Elementary and Presch...

Clearview AI

Clearview AI

Surveillance, Privacy, Drones and AI

articles and videos looking at drones, ai and surveillance applications

FEARS: Peer to peer ratings, social media, Surveillance, Security and Privacy Issues

a collection of articles and videos about Surveillance and Privacy

School safety, surveillance, privacy - gun violence, police in K12 education

a collection of articles looking at how technology is being used to enhance Elementary and Presch...

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Article

Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users – The Markup

The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people’s movements (2024)


Article

AI Regulation: EU lawmakers deal on 'global first' AI rules | TechCrunch

After marathon 'final' talks which stretched to almost three days European Union lawmakers have tonight clinched a political deal on a risk-based A... (2023)


Article

Technology and the state. Surveillance capitalism

Silicon Valley is piling into the business of snooping. Tech upstarts are selling their wares to America’s police | Business (2023)


Article

Investing in Rewind - a16z Andreessen Horowitz

Rewind is launching a Mac desktop app. When you search for a given term, you see every occurrence wherever it happened, as well as what else was op... (2022)


Article

After George Floyd’s murder, police built a secretive surveillance machine that lives on | MIT Technology Review

An investigation by MIT Technology Review reveals a sprawling, technologically sophisticated system in Minnesota designed for closely monitoring pr... (2022)


Article

iRobot's Roomba will soon be owned by Amazon, which raises privacy questions

In the development of ever smarter homes, Amazon could soon have access to the maps of our houses created and stored by Roomba vacuums. (2022)


Article

The walls are closing in on Clearview AI as data watchdogs get tough | MIT Technology Review

The controversial face recognition company was just fined $10m for scraping UK faces from the web. That might not be the end of it. (2022)


Article

How Amazon Ring uses domestic violence to market doorbell cameras | MIT Technology Review

This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, where Eileen Guo is an Ida B. Wells Fellow, and is being co-published by MIT Tec... (2021)


Article

What is Pegasus? A cybersecurity expert explains how the spyware invades phones and what it does when it gets in

A tool made for tracking criminals and terrorists has potentially been used against politicians, dissidents and journalists. Here’s how the spyware... (2021)


Article

Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship Around the World | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Apple’s new program for scanning images sent on iMessage steps back from the company’s prior support for the privacy and security of encrypted mess... (2021)


Article

Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system | Reuters

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Monday said that iPhone users' entire photo libraries will be checked for known child abuse images if they are stored in the ... (2021)


Article

How to stop AI from recognizing your face in selfies | MIT Technology Review

A growing number of tools now let you stop facial recognition systems from training on your personal photos (2021)


Article

Anyone can use this powerful facial-recognition tool — and that's a problem - CNN

You probably haven't seen PimEyes, a mysterious facial-recognition search engine, but it may have spotted you. (2021)


Article

The UK is secretly testing a controversial web snooping tool | WIRED UK

The Investigatory Powers Act, or Snooper’s Charter, was introduced in 2016. Now one of its most contentious surveillance tools is being secretly tr... (2021)


Article

Review | Amazon's new health band is the most invasive tech we've ever tested

Amazon’s Halo Band wearable tracks your voice and body fat, but isn’t helpful The Halo Band asks you to strip down and strap on a microphone so ... (2020)


Article

Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets

"This is really a textbook example of fair use," said the EFF. (2020)


Article

Facebook Says it Will Stop Operating in Europe If Regulators Don’t Back Down

European regulators are cracking down on Facebook's ability to transfer data across the Atlantic. Now the tech giant is threatening to pull its ser... (2020)


Article

Clearview AI CEO says “over 2,400 police agencies” use its facial recognition software

More than 2,400 police agencies have entered contracts with Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition firm, according to comments made by Cl... (2020)


Article

Everything You Need to Know About Cookies for Web Development

Whenever you surf the web, and login to a website, you do it only once, when you visit the website afterwards, you are already logged in. How does ... (2020)


Article

Fearing coronavirus, a Michigan college is tracking its students with a flawed app

Students have no way to opt out of the location tracking. (2020)


Article

Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores

Rite Aid used facial recognition in largely lower-income, non-white neighborhoods. The systems included one from a firm with links to China and its... (2020)


Article

Police Surveilled George Floyd Protests With Help From Twitter-Affiliated Startup Dataminr

Artificial intelligence firm Dataminr is making questionable use of its Twitter firehose privileges — and not for the first time. (2020)


Article

Microsoft Pitched Facial Recognition To The Drug Enforcement Administration

Last week, Microsoft said it would not sell its facial recognition to police departments. But new documents reveal it was pitching that technology ... (2020)


Article

Spies Can Eavesdrop by Watching a Light Bulb's Vibrations

The so-called lamphone technique allows for real-time listening in on a room that's hundreds of feet away. (2020)


Article

These free tools blur protesters’ faces and remove photo metadata

Developers built the tools to help protesters, who fear retaliation. (2020)


Article

This startup is using AI to give workers a “productivity score”

In the last few months, millions of people around the world stopped going into offices and started doing their jobs from home. These workers may be... (2020)


Article

The DEA Has Been Given Permission To Investigate People Protesting George Floyd’s Death

The Justice Department gave the agency the temporary power “to enforce any federal crime committed as a result of the protests over the death of Ge... (2020)


Article

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here's how to protect your privacy if you plan to ... (2020)


Article

Your face mask selfies could be training the next facial recognition tool

Researchers are crawling the internet for photos of people wearing face masks to improve facial recognition algorithms. (2020)


Article

Palantir picks up more COVID-19 contracts, this time with the VA

Palantir, the data analytics company co-founded by Peter Thiel, is already an active tech player in the scrum for federal contracts, but it’s playi... (2020)


Video

Joe Rogan Experience #1368 - Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden is an American whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 when he w... (2019)


Video

Black Mirror S03E01 Airport scene

When your rating matters... (2019)


Video

Right To Be Forgotten - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight Published on May 19, 2014 John Oliver covers the new European law that would allow people to erase themselves from internet sea... (2018)


Podcast

Contact tracing: So promising. So invasive. - Should This Exist? - Podcast

Listen to this episode from Should This Exist? on Spotify. It’s one of the best weapons we have to contain a pandemic. But can it defe... (2020)


Podcast

The End of Privacy as We Know It? - The New York Times

An unregulated facial recognition app can probably tell the police your name, and help them find out where you live and who your friends are. (2020)


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