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Facebook’s Reason for Banning Researchers Doesn’t Hold Up
When Facebook said Tuesday that it was suspending the accounts of a team of NYU researchers, it made it seem…
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This AI Helps Police Monitor Social Media. Does It Go Too Far?
Since 2016, civil liberties groups have raised alarms about online surveillance of social media chatter by city officials and police…
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Baltimore May Soon Ban Facial Recognition for Everyone but Cops
After years of failed attempts to curb surveillance technologies, Baltimore is close to enacting one of the nation’s most stringent…
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Apple and Google’s New AI Wizardry Promises Privacy—at a Cost
Since the dawn of the iPhone, many of the smarts in smartphones have come from elsewhere: the corporate computers known…
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A Google Alum Wants to Make Search Pure Again
Plus: A lesson in macro Googlenomics, an audio jamming dream, and high-stakes cheesesteaks. Source link
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The All-Seeing Eyes of New York’s 15,000 Surveillance Cameras
A new video from human rights organization Amnesty International maps the locations of more than 15,000 cameras used by the…
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Video Chat, Stream, or Record With This $14 Gabba Goods 1080p Webcam
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Bipartisan Privacy Bill Actually Has a Chance of Passing
Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images) A bipartisan group of senators is pushing forward a privacy bill meant to offer some…
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How Face Recognition Can Destroy Anonymity
Stepping out in public used to make a person largely anonymous. Unless you met someone you knew, nobody would know…
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Google Misled Android Users About Location Data, Australian Court Finds
Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images) In the first ruling of its kind, the Australian Federal Court announced on Friday that…
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