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A new report from encryption platform Wickr infers that businesses operating in countries whose governments support contact tracing are turning...

A National Security Commission on AI white paper says that contact tracing apps can provide value in helping to control...

Privacy, the freedom to access and share information, the freedom to peacefully assemble, and the freedom of expression are all...

Big tech companies are collecting enormous amounts of data on the movement of private citizens while censoring free speech and...

Massive data surveillance, warrantless wiretapping, and the weaponization of intelligence agencies against private citizens were all conducted in the name...

The amount of data being tracked and shared between tech companies, health organizations, and government bodies in response to COVID-19...

Several countries around the world have started to analyze the location data from citizens’ mobile devices as a means to...

Filing a patent is an important step towards building the product that you want while providing legal protections to you...

Carnival, for most Brazilians, is synonymous with samba, sweat, and caipirinhas. Some of the best parties of the year take...

Video app TikTok is quickly rising in popularity, especially among teenagers, but with safety, privacy, and national security concerns, do...

An incredibly sensitive subject -- Facebook is looking to push a privacy first policy with end-to-end encryption, but the FBI...

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 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 online security as it makes it more likely that secondary...

Insurance companies in Asia are beginning to use facial recognition to record client interviews, so they can spot when customers are...

While companies like Google and Facebook want to show that they are taking ‘privacy’ very seriously, they will have to...

TheFacebook launched on the exact same day DARPA's LifeLog project was reportedly killed. The vision of LifeLog is congruent with...

Three US senators call on Google CEO Sundar Pichai to give an in-person briefing concerning a report by Business Insider...

Weather wars, authoritarian surveillance, social control, and more are "Future Shocks" that could fundamentally destabilize the world as we know...

Amazon shareholders file a resolution demanding that Amazon stop selling facial recognition software Rekognition to government and law enforcement, citing...