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Coronavirus Monitoring Bracelets Flood the Market, Ready to Snitch on People Who Don’t Distance…

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Surveillance firms around the world are licking their lips at a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to cash in on the coronavirus by repositioning one of their most invasive products: the tracking bracelet. Body monitors are associated with criminality and guilt in the popular imagination, the accessories of Wall Street crooks under house arrest and menace-to-society parolees. Unlike […]

Report: Teens Spend Seven Hours a Day Staring at Their Phones…

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A recent report revealed that teenagers spend an average of seven hours each day on their smartphones. The report suggests that 70 percent of teenagers conceal a portion of their online activity from their parents. According to a recent report, teenagers spend an average of seven hours each day on their smartphones, outside of hours […]

There’s No Telling What Data Facebook Will Collect if You Use Its Zoom Clone…

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Earlier this month, Facebook debuted its group video chat offering, Messenger Rooms, to a world under widespread pandemic lockdown, one that’s in large part replaced face-to-face meetings with streamed conversations. The chief beneficiary of this shift, Zoom, has spent months as a punching bag for privacy advocates, so Facebook was quick to assure users that […]

New Facial Recognition Software Predicts You’re a Criminal Based on Your Face…

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A team from the University of Harrisburg, PA, has developed automated computer facial recognition software that they claim can predict with 80 percent accuracy and “no racial bias” whether a person is likely going to be a criminal, purely by looking at a picture of them. “By automating the identification of potential threats without bias, […]

Twitter CEO’s $1B Coronavirus Relief Comes from Square Stake…

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Jack Dorsey, the Square and Twitter CEO, plans to donate $1 billion of his equity in Square to create a COVID-19 relief fund that will contribute to other causes once the coronavirus pandemic passes. After the pandemic is over, his fund, #startsmall LLC, will give money toward cause such as universal basic income and girls’ […]

Nielsen Records 85 Percent Increase in Americans Streaming Video…

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American online media streaming rates during the first three weeks of March were the highest on record, up 85 percent compared to March 2019 reports, according to Nielsen, a data and measurement firm. The record rate comes as the coronavirus sweeps across the world, forcing many countries to order people to stay inside and self-quarantine. […]

Facebook Removes Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Post Touting Anti-Malaria Drug as Effective Coronavirus Treatment…

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Facebook made the decision to censor Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro by removing a video the company claims violated “community standards” by spreading misinformation that “could lead to physical harm.” Bolsonaro posted a video Sunday in which he said, “Hydroxychloroquine is working in all places.” Facebook took down the video, which featured Bolsonaro talking to a […]

Big and Small Tech Innovation Makes #PandemicLife Tolerable…

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From suggested self-quarantines to the sudden shutting down of businesses (and countless workers being laid off) the past month has brought unprecedented hardships for millions of Americans. Inevitable comparisons have been drawn between the coronavirus pandemic and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic which infected 500 million people and resulted in an astounding 50 million deaths. […]

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