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surveillance

Amazon Unveils AI Worker Monitoring For Social Distancing, Worrying Privacy Advocates

Amazon said the AI social distancing monitor has received positive employee feedback.
By Sissi Cao
Output of an artificial intelligence system from Google Vision, performing facial recognition.

This Controversial Company Is Selling Your Social Media Photos to Law Enforcement

Those fun party pics you posted last month could already be in Clearview AI’s database for law enforcement purposes.
By Harmon Leon
Athena Security Gun Detection

Unbiased Surveillance: AI Security Tech That Spots Guns, Not People

We applaud tech that can prevent yet another shooting tragedy and doesn’t employ racial basis in the equation.
By Harmon Leon
A person’s face is permanently documented during any interaction they might have at a home outfitted with a Ring device—whether they like it or not

Amazon’s Ring Home Surveillance Network Raises Big Privacy Concerns

By Harmon Leon

Immeasurably Valuable Jewels Have Been Stolen From a German Palace

By Helen Holmes

How Easy Is It to Steal a Hidden Laptop From a Car?

By Harmon Leon
The normalization of facial recognition technology and mass surveillance being used to target marginalized communities, whether in the hopes of "saving them" or not, is dangerous.

Sex Workers Are at the Forefront of the Fight Against Mass Surveillance and Big Tech

By Erin Taylor
secret consumer score

VIP or Nobody? What Your Secret Consumer Score Reveals About You

By Harmon Leon
robot childcare

Robots vs. Babysitters: Is Artificial Intelligence the Hot New Choice for Child Care?

By Chris Roberts
Edward Snowden

Scariest Takeaways on the Current State of Smartphone Surveillance From Edward Snowden

By Harmon Leon
As of last week, Bloomin’ Brands, which owns Outback Steakhouse, was planning to use an AI surveillance system to spy on workers’ interactions with customers.

Outcry Scuttles Outback Steakhouse Plan to Use AI to Monitor Workers, Customers

By Chris Roberts

US-Based Iranian Artist Taha Heydari Censors His Own Work to Talk About State Control

By Michael Anthony Farley

Icelandic Trolls, Surveillance and Stetsons Open a New Cultural Hub in the Dallas Design District

By Helen Holmes
Edward Snowden.

Edward Snowden and GOP Lawmakers Demand Release of Surveillance Abuses Memo

By Davis Richardson
Police badge.

GOP Watchdog Group Ready to Brawl Over House Surveillance Bill

By Davis Richardson
Bosses have rules, too.

The Differences Between Workplace Privacy for Americans and Europeans

By Brady Dale
NYPD officers.

This Week in Counterterrorism: Efforts Undermined by Politicians and Media

By The Editors
A drone.

Drones That See Through Walls Are Just the Latest Trick for Wi-Fi Vision

By Brady Dale
Mapping a face is the starting point.

Facial Recognition Is Increasingly Common, But How Does It Work?

By Jessica Gabel Cino
President of the European Council Donald Tusk (L) shakes hand with President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker (R) in front of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (C) during a joint press conference after signing the EU-NATO Joint Declaration at the NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland, on July 8, 2016.

Indefensible: The Plan for a Pan-European Military Force Is a Mistake

By Dr. Herbert London
Marvel's Luke Cage, Mike Colter.

Marvel’s ‘Luke Cage’ Has Been the Comic Company’s Biggest Hit This Year

By Brady Dale
LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 6: People aim cell phones at a speaker in front of the TCL Chinese Theatre as they march on Hollywood Boulevard to protest of the decision in New York not to indict a police officer involved in the choke-hold death of Eric Garner on December 6, 2014 in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California. The march passed the tourist attraction of Hollywood and Highland where police had previously shot and killed a man that according to police had a knife. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Google’s Android Phones Threaten Democracy, ACLU Technologist Warns

By Brady Dale
Nested within several companies, Alphabet (known to normal people as Google), runs LinkNYC, the most helpful surveillance equipment around.

Intersection’s CEO, a Former AmEx Guy, Announces Departure for Visa

By Brady Dale
Inside the Brooklyn Army Terminal.

An Election-Themed Haunted House Is Coming to NYC to Terrify Us All

By Alanna Martinez
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