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

The technological arms race between the US and China is a competition to see which country's values will become the...

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...

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

What's the difference between Google and China? One is accused of intellectual property theft while the other has created an...

US spy agency IARPA is looking to build a super quiet spy drone that can deliver a 10 pound payload...

Combining facial and body recognition from above, spy agencies are researching how to identify people at long range from drones...

Wobot Intelligence Chief Product Officer (CPO) Tanay Dixit talks with The Sociable about privacy in the age of mass surveillance from the...

Over 25 human rights and tech groups petition the US House of Representatives to not fund "various invasive surveillance technologies...

On the surface, IARPA's Activities in Extended Video (ActEV) Prize Challenge looks to improve efficiency, so camera operators can quickly...

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...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all the rage in corporate circles these days. The CEO of Google has stated that AI...

Governments may use information gleaned from AI in a beneficial way in monitoring citizen happiness, but this type of data...

Security surveillance just got smarter thanks to the development of video analytics and facial recognition technology.  With millions of closed-circuit...

Tech giants like Google and Apple could be helping catch criminals with technologies already built in gadgets we use everyday....

Moscow has, according to TechCrunch, turned on facial recognition for the city's CCTV cameras. And that's OK, apparently, because there is...

The US legal system gets another reality check as the Department of Justice (DOJ) completely flops its attempt to get the...

The FBI will be allowed to continue issuing National Security Letters (NSLs) under nondisclosure laws according to a ruling by...