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How My Boss Monitors Me While I Work From Home - The New York Times
As we shelter in place in the pandemic, more employers are using software to track our work — and us. (2020)
London Police Are Taking Surveillance to a Whole New Level - The New York Times (2020)
The city, stepping into a debate over privacy, says it will use real-time facial recognition technology “to tackle serious crime.” (2020)
HN Discussion - Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website | Hacker News
> They also use audio fingerprinting to identify visitors. This doesn’t mean they actually use your microphone or speaker. Instead they generate a ... (2019)
Opinion | How to Stop the Abuse of Location Data - Foursquare - The New York Times (2019)
There are no formal rules for what is ethical — or even legal — in the location data business. That needs to change. In the op-ed, Jeff (Foursqu... (2019)
Drivers Beware: The Traffic Safety Reporting Apps Are Coming
It’s getting easier for city residents to use technology that can report bad drivers who block bike lanes. Welcome to the self-surveillance era of ... (2019)
US is using road signs to capture license plate data — Quartz
It takes a photograph of your license plate. (2018)
Forget the new iPhones, Apple's best product is now privacy || Fast Company
Under Tim Cook’s leadership, Apple saw just how critical an issue user privacy would become. Now it’s at least as important a feature as shiny indu... (2018)
Kairos: Face recognition AI transforms visual data analysis
Cameras are Watching and Machines are Learning: The Beginning An explosion of images and video is creating massive opportunities for understandi... (2018)
Australia Wants to Take Government Surveillance to the Next Level - The New York Times
A new bill will help its intelligence agencies circumvent encryption. And what starts Down Under won’t necessarily stay there. (2018)
Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox and you should too - FastCoDesign
The time has come. "Google already runs a lot of my online life–it’s my email, my calendar, my go-to map, and all my documents. I use Duck Du... (2018)
The Next Privacy Battle in Europe Is Over This New Law - The New York Times
The tech industry is fighting a pending measure that’s even stricter than the recently enacted G.D.P.R. It’s called the ePrivacy Regulation. (2018)
Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police. Critics See Surveillance Risk. - The New York Times
More than two dozen civil rights organizations asked the tech giant to stop selling its image recognition system to law enforcement agencies... (2018)
Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning From Its Own History of Hate - The New York Times
A country taps its past as it leads the way on one of the most pressing issues facing modern democracies: how to regulate the world’s biggest socia... (2018)
Is a Dumber Phone a Better Phone? - The New York Times
A new crop of smartphones has arrived, aiming to improve on the iPhone — not by being better but by being substantially worse. (2018)
Palantir Knows Everything About You | Bloomberg
Peter Thiel's data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens. The scary thing? Palantir is desperate for new customers. (2018)
‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Food, Phones and Finances - The New York Times
The government requires its people to submit finger, eye and facial images. The ID is mandatory for many services, but opponents say it infringes p... (2018)
The University of Arizona is tracking students' locations to predict dropouts — Quartz
At the University of Arizona, school officials know when students are going to drop out before they do. The public college in Tucson has been quiet... (2018)
Will Everything Stay in New Orleans If Cameras Capture It All? - The New York Times
Will 1,500 Street Cameras Be a Wet Blanket in New Orleans? Residents wonder whether the city’s freewheeling appeal will suffer if bars, clubs an... (2018)
Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users – The Markup
The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people’s movements (2024)
AI Regulation: EU lawmakers deal on 'global first' AI rules | TechCrunch
After marathon 'final' talks which stretched to almost three days European Union lawmakers have tonight clinched a political deal on a risk-based A... (2023)
Technology and the state. Surveillance capitalism
Silicon Valley is piling into the business of snooping. Tech upstarts are selling their wares to America’s police | Business (2023)
Investing in Rewind - a16z Andreessen Horowitz
Rewind is launching a Mac desktop app. When you search for a given term, you see every occurrence wherever it happened, as well as what else was op... (2022)
After George Floyd’s murder, police built a secretive surveillance machine that lives on | MIT Technology Review
An investigation by MIT Technology Review reveals a sprawling, technologically sophisticated system in Minnesota designed for closely monitoring pr... (2022)
iRobot's Roomba will soon be owned by Amazon, which raises privacy questions
In the development of ever smarter homes, Amazon could soon have access to the maps of our houses created and stored by Roomba vacuums. (2022)
The walls are closing in on Clearview AI as data watchdogs get tough | MIT Technology Review
The controversial face recognition company was just fined $10m for scraping UK faces from the web. That might not be the end of it. (2022)
How Amazon Ring uses domestic violence to market doorbell cameras | MIT Technology Review
This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, where Eileen Guo is an Ida B. Wells Fellow, and is being co-published by MIT Tec... (2021)
What is Pegasus? A cybersecurity expert explains how the spyware invades phones and what it does when it gets in
A tool made for tracking criminals and terrorists has potentially been used against politicians, dissidents and journalists. Here’s how the spyware... (2021)
Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship Around the World | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Apple’s new program for scanning images sent on iMessage steps back from the company’s prior support for the privacy and security of encrypted mess... (2021)
How to stop AI from recognizing your face in selfies | MIT Technology Review
A growing number of tools now let you stop facial recognition systems from training on your personal photos (2021)
Anyone can use this powerful facial-recognition tool — and that's a problem - CNN
You probably haven't seen PimEyes, a mysterious facial-recognition search engine, but it may have spotted you. (2021)
Joe Rogan Experience #1368 - Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden is an American whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 when he w... (2019)
Black Mirror S03E01 Airport scene
When your rating matters... (2019)
Right To Be Forgotten - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight Published on May 19, 2014 John Oliver covers the new European law that would allow people to erase themselves from internet sea... (2018)
The End of Privacy as We Know It? - The New York Times
An unregulated facial recognition app can probably tell the police your name, and help them find out where you live and who your friends are. (2020)
Contact tracing: So promising. So invasive. - Should This Exist? - Podcast
Listen to this episode from Should This Exist? on Spotify. It’s one of the best weapons we have to contain a pandemic. But can it defe... (2020)