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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)
An investigation by MIT Technology Review reveals a sprawling, technologically sophisticated system in Minnesota designed for closely monitoring pr... (2022)
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)
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)
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)
A tool made for tracking criminals and terrorists has potentially been used against politicians, dissidents and journalists. Here’s how the spyware... (2021)
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)
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A growing number of tools now let you stop facial recognition systems from training on your personal photos (2021)
You probably haven't seen PimEyes, a mysterious facial-recognition search engine, but it may have spotted you. (2021)
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)
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)
"This is really a textbook example of fair use," said the EFF. (2020)
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)
For many years, Latin America’s largest democracy was a leader on data governance. In 1995, it created the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, a... (2020)
More than 2,400 police agencies have entered contracts with Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition firm, according to comments made by Cl... (2020)
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)
Students have no way to opt out of the location tracking. (2020)
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)
Artificial intelligence firm Dataminr is making questionable use of its Twitter firehose privileges — and not for the first time. (2020)
Last week, Microsoft said it would not sell its facial recognition to police departments. But new documents reveal it was pitching that technology ... (2020)
The so-called lamphone technique allows for real-time listening in on a room that's hundreds of feet away. (2020)
Developers built the tools to help protesters, who fear retaliation. (2020)
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)
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)
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Researchers are crawling the internet for photos of people wearing face masks to improve facial recognition algorithms. (2020)
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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)