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...
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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...
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
 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}
Personal data use is driving the online attention economy, but its recent trajectory is a severe diversion from that hazy...
