The FBI is piloting Amazon’s facial matching software—Amazon Rekognition—as a means to sift through mountains of video surveillance footage the agency routinely collects during investigations. The pilot kicked off in early 2018 following a string of high-profile counterterrorism investigations that tested the limits of the FBI’s technological capabilities, according to FBI officials…
We’re All Just Starting to Realize the Power of Personal Data…
It’s no secret that companies like Facebook and Google scoop up personal information to serve users ads. But if anything became clear this year, it’s that consumers have a lot more to learn about what happens to their data online—how it’s gathered, who gets to look at it, and what it’s worth. American corporations are […]
The Creepy Line: A New Documentary on the Power of Tech Giants…
The Creepy Line, a new documentary by director M.A. Taylor, is now streaming at Amazon Prime. It provides an interesting and revealing look at how Google and Facebook influence their users’ view of the world, and how the users we often presume to be the customers of these companies aren’t really the customers. The users […]
The Creepy Line Trailer…
An eye-opening documentary, The Creepy Line reveals the stunning degree to which society is manipulated by Google and Facebook and blows the lid off the remarkably subtle – hence powerful – manner in which they do it…
AT&T Claims it Wants Meaningful Privacy Rules…After Just Lobbying to Kill Meaningful Privacy Rules…
If you hadn’t noticed, the telecom industry has been on a tear lately, completely dismantling most government oversight of its natural monopolies. From killing net neutrality to gutting FCC and state authority to rein in ISP bad behavior, companies like AT&T dream of a future where neither competiton nor even modest regulatory oversight prevent it […]
A Seemingly Small Change to Chrome Stirs Big Controversy…
Though Chrome launched in 2008 as a scrappy upstart, it has for years been the dominant web browser, with over 60 percent market share on both desktop and mobile. So when Chrome adjusts its features or policies, it impacts a huge chunk of people worldwide. And a recent change to how Chrome treats logins has […]
SHOT: ‘Social Score’ Facebook Has ‘Trust’ Ratings for Users–But Refuses to Divulge Your Score…
FACEBOOK is rating users based on how “trustworthy” it thinks they are. Users receive a score on a scale from zero to one that determines if they have a good or bad reputation – but it’s completely hidden. The rating system was revealed in a report by the Washington Post – and later confirmed by […]
FLASHBACK: CHASER — China Assigns Every Citizen a ‘Social Credit Score’ to Identify Who Is and Isn’t Trustworthy…
Chinese Surveillance State Is Basically the U.S. Surveillance Apparatus Minus the Constitutional Rights…
Reuters has a long, detailed examination of the Chinese surveillance state. China’s intrusion into the lives of its citizens has never been minimal, but advances in technology have allowed the government to keep tabs on pretty much every aspect of citizens’ lives. Facial recognition has been deployed at scale and it’s not limited to finding […]
How Email Open Tracking Quietly Took Over the Web…
“I just came across this email,” began the message, a long overdue reply. But I knew the sender was lying. He’d opened my email nearly six months ago. On a Mac. In Palo Alto. At night. I knew this because I was running the email tracking service Streak, which notified me as soon as my […]
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