Large-scale facial recognition is incompatible with a free society
In the US, tireless opposition to state use of facial recognition algorithms has recently won some victories.
Jul 10, 2020
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US virus tracking: a patchwork of apps, human tracers
Digital or manual? Bluetooth or GPS? Centralized or decentralized?
May 24, 2020
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Public concern about smartphone location tracking to combat COVID-19
Public concern over the use of smartphone location tracking (SLT) could jeopardize governments' efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 using surveillance technologies.
May 18, 2020
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Business
How US video game companies are building tools for China's surveillance state
Last October, software developers at Riot Games in Santa Monica fielded an unusual request. Like other video game makers, Riot's success depends on its ability to make games that are compulsively playable, like its global ...
Jul 24, 2019
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As surveillance gets smart, hackers get smarter
There is an escalating technological arms race underway between governments and hacktivists. As governments step up their surveillance, the hacktivists find new ways to subvert it.
Jul 28, 2016
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