Companies Can Track Your Phone’s Movements to Target Ads
Google and Apple have taken steps this year they say will help users shield themselves from hundreds of companies that compile profiles […]
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Creepy ‘Geofence’ Finds Anyone Who Went Near a Crime Scene
In 2018, 23-year-old Jorge Molina was arrested and jailed for six days on suspicion of killing another man. Police in Avondale, Arizona, […]
Google and Apple Change Tactics on Contact Tracing Tech
The new plan unifies some of the behind-the-scenes work of sending exposure notifications. In the original scheme, state health authorities were responsible […]
A British AI Tool to Predict Violent Crime Is Too Flawed to Use
A flagship artificial intelligence system designed to predict gun and knife violence in the UK before it happens had serious flaws that […]
Amazon Won’t Let Police Use Its Facial-Recognition Tech for One Year
Amazon announced on Wednesday it was implementing a “one-year moratorium” on police use of Rekognition, its facial-recognition technology. Lawmakers and civil liberties […]
This Bot Hunts Software Bugs for the Pentagon
Late last year, David Haynes, a security engineer at internet infrastructure company Cloudflare, found himself gazing at a strange image. “It was […]
How Surveillance Could Save Lives Amid a Public Health Crisis
For each new transmission of coronavirus, imagine the “tick tick tick” of a stopwatch. At least 2 million adults in the US […]
The Value and Ethics of Using Phone Data to Monitor Covid-19
Google and Facebook are considering efforts to analyze the collective movements of millions of users to determine how the deadly novel coronavirus […]
WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN
VPNs, or virtual private networks, are an important part of any security and privacy toolbox. VPNs are essentially encrypted connections between two […]
How AI Is Tracking the Coronavirus Outbreak
With the coronavirus growing more deadly in China, artificial intelligence researchers are applying machine-learning techniques to social media, web, and other data […]