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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
CARMEL, IN - MAY 02: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts on May 2, 2016 in Carmel, Indiana. Trump continues to campaign leading up to the state of Indiana's primary day on Tuesday.

Donald Trump’s Indiana Supporters Favor Old Cell Phones—Here’s How We Know

By Brady Dale
Foreign press are given a tour by the New York Foreign Press Center as they are shown a kiosk on 3rd Avenue introducing LinkNYC, New York Citys Free Superfast Broadband Experiment on March 21,2016. / AFP / Timothy A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

Meet the Brave Souls Who Read LinkNYC’s Two Different Privacy Policies

By Brady Dale
Birdwatchers spot birds during the Birding Rally Challenge at "Aguas Calientes" near the Machu Picchu sanctuary in Cuzco on December 05, 2012. The Birding Rally Challenge is a competition, involving teams of well known birders, where participants must cover the greatest number of habitats within a relative small geographical area and in a limited amount of time, allowing them to appreciate the biodiversity of Peru. AFP PHOTO/ERNESTO BENAVIDES (Photo credit should read ERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP/Getty Images)

How to Protest Online Trackers Without Leaving Your Chair

By Brady Dale
Mayor Bill de Blasio discusses Zika virus prevention efforts in New York City.

NYC Opening Clinics and Spraying Pesticides to Combat Zika Virus

By John Bonazzo
Soon, this camera will make more than a tape that sits in a basement.

Here’s Why You Should Take All Your Photos Off the Internet Now

By Brady Dale
A visitor uses a mobile phone on the third day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 24, 2016. The world's biggest mobile fair Nobile World Congress (MWC), is held from February 22 to February 25. / AFP / LLUIS GENE

A Marketer’s Dream: Using Mobiles to Connect Commercials to Shopping

By Brady Dale
A visitor to Laura Poitras' "Astro Noise" at the Whitney Museum. (New York Observer)

Filmmaker Laura Poitras Brings Classified Documents to Art Museum Walls

By Alanna Martinez
Ball and chain, earlier models. (Photo: @lazylikewally / Flickr)

Talking GPS Trackers on Wisconsin Ex-Con Works Much Like a Real Ball-And-Chain

By Brady Dale
Surya Mattu and Tega Brain, at Internet Yami-Ichi. (Photo: Brady Dale)

Does Your Employer Want to Monitor Your Workouts? Unfit Bits Has a Hack for That

By Brady Dale
391081 04: A cell phone tower rises above the trees June 25, 2001 in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The 1996 federal Telecommunications Act prohibited communities from banning cell phone tower construction, but many towns are now asking for moratoriums on the building of towers. Recently, the town of Leicester, Massachusetts rejected a tower, claiming it would be an eyesore in the community. (Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images)

Surveillance State Protected by a Footnote in DOJ Cell-Site Simulator Policy [UPDATED]

By Brady Dale
A swarm of captured mobiles, with one showing the places it has checked in. (Photo: Branger_Briz)

Hackers Map the Travels of Passers-By in Eye-Catching Art Installation

By Brady Dale
A Fairfax, Virginia, motorcycle Officer aims his ProLaser III, Lidar, towards drivers that may be speeding March 10, 2009, on Lee Highway-Route 29. AFP Photo/Paul J. Richards

Outsource Your Stalking to the Northern Virginia Police

By Brady Dale
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Terrorism Will Ebb as Islam Matures—If We Can Wait That Long

By Andrew L. Peek
Former Congressman Charlie Bass says drones are the real threat to American surveillance. (Google Commons)

Former Congressman Says Drones Will Be Worse Than FBI Surveillance

By John Bonazzo
WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 08: Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming ranking member Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) attends a news conference on "energy, climate-gate and President Obama's trip to Copenhagen" with members of the House Republican American Energy Solutions Group at the U.S. Capitol December 8, 2009 in Washington, DC. What some climate change critics are calling "climate-gate," emails and other documents between scientists were hacked or stolen from a British climate-change research center. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Telecom Condemns Passage of USA FREEDOM Act by Senate

By Brady Dale
An unmarked police car with the novelty license plate "2 Jail" is parked at a fast food drive through in the town of Bakersfield, Central California on February 03, 2010. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)

Take the Subway: The Government Is Tracking Your Car

By Brady Dale
(Photo: Getty)

Police Officers Apparently Don’t Want to See Your Snapchat Data

By Jack Smith IV
A scene from a past Seven On Seven conference. (Courtesy Rhizome)

Rhizome Announces a Loaded Lineup for Its Seven On Seven Conference

By Nate Freeman
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This iPhone Game Puts You Inside the Mind of an NSA Agent

By Jack Smith IV
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If the NSA Wrote a Love Song to Edward Snowden, This Would Be It

By Jack Smith IV
Protesters outside the Justice Department. NSA whistleblower Bill Binney agrees with many of their complaints. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The ACLU and Wikipedia are Suing the NSA

By Jack Smith IV
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