‘We don’t want to be at the mercy of Facebook’: social app developer on the importance of filing patents
Filing a patent is an important step towards building the product that you want while providing legal protections to you...
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Will this be the last time Brazil uses facial recognition technology at Carnival?
Carnival, for most Brazilians, is synonymous with samba, sweat, and caipirinhas. Some of the best parties of the year take...
Teens on TikTok: do the benefits outweigh the risks?
Video app TikTok is quickly rising in popularity, especially among teenagers, but with safety, privacy, and national security concerns, do...
FBI worries Facebook’s privacy first policy will be a ‘child predator’s dream’
An incredibly sensitive subject -- Facebook is looking to push a privacy first policy with end-to-end encryption, but the FBI...
Truth held to a vote: ‘Alexa Answers’ from users without requiring citations
Amazon has now publicly launched Alexa Answers in which it is crowdsourcing the truth from its users to share with...
Technology’s impact on society reflects society’s impact on technology
Technology's impact on society is forging two paths simultaneously. Tech companies tell us they are taking us down the road...
Centralized web browsing is a threat to your privacy and security
Centralized web browsing is a threat to your privacy and online security as it makes it more likely that secondary...
Facial recognition is the new polygraph test for insurers
Insurance companies in Asia are beginning to use facial recognition to record client interviews, so they can spot when customers are...
Tech giants seek to exorcise privacy woes to win back user trust
While companies like Google and Facebook want to show that they are taking ‘privacy’ very seriously, they will have to...
Are you really buying Facebook’s privacy-focused vision? Op-ed
TheFacebook launched on the exact same day DARPA's LifeLog project was reportedly killed. The vision of LifeLog is congruent with...
Senators look to grill Google CEO over undisclosed microphone on Nest
Three US senators call on Google CEO Sundar Pichai to give an in-person briefing concerning a report by Business Insider...
‘Authoritarianism is easier in a world of total visibility’: WEF report
Weather wars, authoritarian surveillance, social control, and more are "Future Shocks" that could fundamentally destabilize the world as we know...
Shareholders tell Amazon to stop selling Rekognition facial recognition tech to govt
Amazon shareholders file a resolution demanding that Amazon stop selling facial recognition software Rekognition to government and law enforcement, citing...
US senator urges investigation into Google over Google+ bug ‘coverup’
US Senator Richard Blumenthal pens a letter urging the FTC "to immediately open an investigation into Google's exposure of private...
Privacy woes aside, Google Home Hub launches 1 day after Facebook’s Portal
Technology is not evil, nor is it good. It is simply a tool. Facebook Portal is a tool, and now...
Facebook’s Portal born out of Pentagon-inspired Building 8
Facebook has a new hardware product called Portal, a video sharing device which has Amazon's voice assistant Alexa built-in, and...
Adblock Plus maker eyeo launches free browser extension to spot fake news
Today, Adblock Plus maker eyeo launches a free web browser extension called Trusted News to help web surfers spot fake news sources. Currently...
Workplace AI: A dystopian nightmare in the making?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all the rage in corporate circles these days. The CEO of Google has stated that AI...
Why Privacy in the Age of AI Is an Outdated Concept
Chances are, you’ve already heard about #DeleteFacebook and the recent upheaval over Cambridge Analytica’s internationally explosive breach of privacy. Though...
The all-in-one video editing, compression and conversion platform with in-built privacy and sharing
Video usage is exploding across the web, and users want to be able to upload, compress, convert, and edit more...
