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...
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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Why Privacy in the Age of AI Is an Outdated Concept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...
How to hack a human 101: ‘organisms are algorithms,’ World Economic Forum Davos
The most profound statement in over 150 years of biological research since Charles Darwin can be summarized in just three...
What WiFi’s KRACK attack means for you and what you can do about it: interview
Day after day, America is faced with a long list of growing cyber threats. In light of recent hacks, leaks,...
US can now collect social media data on immigrants, citizens, and travelers
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) modifies the Privacy Act of 1974 to allow the collection of social media...
Agreed personal data use and its disagreeable trend
Personal data use is driving the online attention economy, but its recent trajectory is a severe diversion from that hazy...
Why privacy is becoming a collateral of crime fighting
Tech giants like Google and Apple could be helping catch criminals with technologies already built in gadgets we use everyday....
Facial recognition presents threat to LGBT community
With the hype surrounding the new iPhone X, many are eagerly anticipating the feature that has everyone talking -- unlocking...
What price tag do we have on our private data? A London artist’s social experiment
More often than not we see big tech corporations as the "big bad wolf" for using our private data, but...
Why tech giants want to protect citizens’ phones from the Government
At the U.S.-Canadian border a Canadian woman was issued a lifetime ban by US border officials for a very troubling...
The better angels of tech making progress in the face controversy and cynicism
The policies of the tech community are obviously not with out controversy, but here are five ways that the community is...
‘What Will You Regulate?’: Secrecy and Consequences in AI Regulation
Should governmental AI regulation become the law of the land, or should AI be privatised for corporations and entrepreneurs to...
Should You Be Concerned About Listening Devices Affecting Your Privacy?
 modifies the Privacy Act of 1974 to allow the collection of social media data of immigrants, including US citizens associated with those accounts.){kind=link}
Voice search technology and listening devices have come a long way in the past several years. Users of Google Home,...
CIA-backed, NSA-approved Pokemon GO users give away all privacy rights
Pokemon GO users swept up in the phenomenon are willingly giving away their rights to privacy by agreeing to download...
