Digital Government
Welcome to the Age of Privacy Nihilism
Google and Facebook are easy scapegoats, but companies have been collecting, selling, and reusing your personal data for decades, and now that the public has finally noticed, it’s too late. The personal-data privacy war is long over, and you lost.
Artificial Intelligence
Schools Are Using AI to Track What Students Write on Their Computers
This software is raising ethical concerns about the line between safety and privacy.
Digital Government
Here’s How to Actually Stop Google From Tracking Your Location
The search giant can be thwarted.
Digital Government
The Way You Swipe Your Phone Can Be Used To Track You
Your fingers could give you away.
Digital Government
Surveillance Cameras Will Soon Divine Your Personality from Eye Movements
Machine-learning techniques promise to make biometric data far more useful for intelligence gathering.
Emerging Tech
Walmart Patents Tech That Could Monitor You As You Check Out
Price check? Walmart already knows.
Digital Government
Smart TVs Are Tracking Viewers And These Lawmakers Are Concerned
Your TV knows just how many cooking shows you watch.
Emerging Tech
Orlando Does an About-Face on Facial Recognition Technology
The city’s police department is moving forward with the second phase of testing weeks after the initial pilot program ended amid concerns raised by civil liberties groups.
Artificial Intelligence
A Game-Changing AI Tool for Tracking Animal Movements
Scientists are already using it to study octopuses, electric fish, surgical robots, and racehorses.
Digital Government
Supreme Court Rules That a Warrant Is Necessary for Phone Location Data
The decision is a victory for privacy advocates.
Emerging Tech
Drone Cops Take Flight in Los Angeles
The L.A. County Sheriff has deployed a quadcopter drone for rescue and reconnaissance. But will the public accept that these aerial officers come in peace?
Artificial Intelligence
Google’s New Ethics Rules Forbid Using Its AI For Weapons
Alongside these broad ethical guidelines, Google has also drawn a line in the sand for the AI it will not develop.
Emerging Tech
This Is the Week That the Drone Surveillance State Became Real
Local police have access to drones and footage from those flying cameras will be automatically analyzed by AI systems not disclosed to the public.
Digital Government
Digital Time-Tracking Systems Are Draining Worker Pay
Making sure that people are compensated for the time they’ve worked is an issue of fairness.
Artificial Intelligence
The Billion-Dollar, Alibaba-Backed AI Company That’s Quietly Watching People in China
SenseTime is one of a handful of companies at the forefront of China’s artificial intelligence boom.
Emerging Tech
SpaceX’s Rocket Videos Are Technically Against the Law. The U.S. Government Just Noticed.
There are regulations for videos shot from space.
Digital Government
Google Has Received More Than 2 Million 'Right to be Forgotten' Requests
The company hasn't complied with all of them, though.
Digital Government
The City That Remembers Everything
The smart city is moving beyond cameras and microphones to stranger surveillance tools.
Artificial Intelligence