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)
The city, stepping into a debate over privacy, says it will use real-time facial recognition technology “to tackle serious crime.” (2020)
Apple Inc dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devices in the company's iCloud service after the FBI complained that th... (2020)
Airport officials rolled out the system expecting to increase security and decrease boarding times. (2018)
Peter Thiel's data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens. The scary thing? Palantir is desperate for new customers. (2018)
Police in Raleigh, North Carolina, have presented Google with warrants to obtain data from mobile phones from not just specific suspects who were i... (2018)
Facial-recognition systems can help bolster security, but some experts say the technology raises questions about privacy and data security. (2018)
Americans advance a lot of theories for why they have so many more gun deaths than other countries do. The answer is lying in plain sight. (2018)
When terror strikes, social media can be used to share information, process grief, and re-traumatize victims. Experts say parents and educators can... (2018)
A start-up called Skydio has created a consumer drone that flies itself. Its tech is likely to become ubiquitous. “The drone knows your face, yo... (2018)
COLOMBIA’S 52-year civil war killed 220,000 people and displaced 7m more. But on August 24th last year, after four years of painstaking negotiation... (2018)
ON TUESDAY Emmanuel Macron, the French president, hosted talks at which the two most influential players in Libya—Fayez al-Sarraj, the UN-backed pr... (2018)
“TURKEY: A Turkish court has ordered the release of the head of the human rights advocacy group Amnesty International in the country, who was detai... (2018)
Will 1,500 Street Cameras Be a Wet Blanket in New Orleans? Residents wonder whether the city’s freewheeling appeal will suffer if bars, clubs an... (2018)
Judges say snooper’s charter lacks adequate safeguards around accessing personal data (2018)
What happens when digital eyes get the brains to match? Machine learning is helping CCTV cameras to analyze what we do in real time, creating a ... (2018)
The DHS is currently testing a program in which it scans the faces of American citizens and foreign nationals in nine airports across the country i... (2017)
ALONG the road from the port city of Hodeida to Sana’a, Yemen’s capital, rugged mountains rise sharply from a coastal plain, then level off, giving... (2017)
THE image is of a young man with his back turned, grasping a large knife. Beside him in stark white capitals are the Italian words “Devi combatterl... (2017)
Life in the Paris Banlieues | The New Yorker George Packer on the city’s immigrant suburbs, the Charlie Hebdo attacks, and France’s problems wit... (2017)
Medium, 2014: "Thousands of cameras, millions of photographs, terabytes of data. You’re tracked, wherever you go... BRITAIN IS ONE OF THE MOST surv... (2013)