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Big Brother isn't just watching: workplace surveillance can track your every move
The Guardian, 2017: "Employers are using a range of technologies to monitor their staff’s web-browsing patterns, keystrokes, social media posts an... (2017)
It Takes Just $1,000 to Track Someone's Location With Mobile Ads
Wired Magazine, 2017: "University of Washington researchers have shown just how cheaply spies can exploit ad networks for fine-grained, individuali... (2017)
How Britain Exported Next-Generation Surveillance
Medium, 2014: "Thousands of cameras, millions of photographs, terabytes of data. You’re tracked, wherever you go... BRITAIN IS ONE OF THE MOST surv... (2013)
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)
Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system | Reuters
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Monday said that iPhone users' entire photo libraries will be checked for known child abuse images if they are stored in the ... (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)
The UK is secretly testing a controversial web snooping tool | WIRED UK
The Investigatory Powers Act, or Snooper’s Charter, was introduced in 2016. Now one of its most contentious surveillance tools is being secretly tr... (2021)
Review | Amazon's new health band is the most invasive tech we've ever tested
Amazon’s Halo Band wearable tracks your voice and body fat, but isn’t helpful The Halo Band asks you to strip down and strap on a microphone so ... (2020)
Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets
"This is really a textbook example of fair use," said the EFF. (2020)
Facebook Says it Will Stop Operating in Europe If Regulators Don’t Back Down
European regulators are cracking down on Facebook's ability to transfer data across the Atlantic. Now the tech giant is threatening to pull its ser... (2020)
MIT - Brazil is sliding into techno-authoritarianism
For many years, Latin America’s largest democracy was a leader on data governance. In 1995, it created the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, a... (2020)
Clearview AI CEO says “over 2,400 police agencies” use its facial recognition software
More than 2,400 police agencies have entered contracts with Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition firm, according to comments made by Cl... (2020)
Everything You Need to Know About Cookies for Web Development
Whenever you surf the web, and login to a website, you do it only once, when you visit the website afterwards, you are already logged in. How does ... (2020)
Fearing coronavirus, a Michigan college is tracking its students with a flawed app
Students have no way to opt out of the location tracking. (2020)
Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores
Rite Aid used facial recognition in largely lower-income, non-white neighborhoods. The systems included one from a firm with links to China and its... (2020)
Police Surveilled George Floyd Protests With Help From Twitter-Affiliated Startup Dataminr
Artificial intelligence firm Dataminr is making questionable use of its Twitter firehose privileges — and not for the first time. (2020)
Microsoft Pitched Facial Recognition To The Drug Enforcement Administration
Last week, Microsoft said it would not sell its facial recognition to police departments. But new documents reveal it was pitching that technology ... (2020)
Spies Can Eavesdrop by Watching a Light Bulb's Vibrations
The so-called lamphone technique allows for real-time listening in on a room that's hundreds of feet away. (2020)
These free tools blur protesters’ faces and remove photo metadata
Developers built the tools to help protesters, who fear retaliation. (2020)
This startup is using AI to give workers a “productivity score”
In the last few months, millions of people around the world stopped going into offices and started doing their jobs from home. These workers may be... (2020)
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)
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)
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)