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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters This Is Exactly What Privacy Experts Said Would Happen
CBP’s trove of biometric data is catnip for bad actors.
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David Becker / Getty Images Consumer Surveillance Enters Its Bargaining Phase
Amazon and Google are happy to give users the option to pause tracking. Why can’t we stop it entirely?
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Frederick Florin / Getty Images The Problem With the SAT’s Idea of Objectivity
Faced with the messy realities of entrenched privilege, the College Board is trying to find a quantitative solution.
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David McNew / Getty The AI Supply Chain Runs on Ignorance
Tech companies often fail to tell users how their data will be employed. Sometimes, the firms can’t even anticipate it themselves.
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Getty / Stephen Maturen The Push to ‘Predict’ Police Shootings
Tracking officers’ stress exposure and body-camera practices could help keep them from pulling the trigger.
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Martin Meissner/ AP Won’t You Give Big Brother Your Consent?
Companies want to collect your data in public spaces. Saying no is getting harder.
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Amazon Behind Every Robot Is a Human
Why Amazon workers sometimes listen in on users’ conversations with Alexa, and what it tells us about the technology that powers “smart” devices
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Ruby Aitken Airbnb Has a Hidden-Camera Problem
The home-rental start-up says it’s cracking down on hosts who record guests. Is it doing enough?
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Sam Yeh / Getty Your Online-Shopping Experience Was Grown in a Lab
How companies are using biofeedback to sell more products
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Marty Melville / Getty Why the New Zealand Shooting Video Keeps Circulating
Teaching AI to filter out banned content isn’t the solution advocates hoped for—or the one Silicon Valley promised.
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Sean Gallup / Getty Your Health Data Are a Gold Mine for Advertisers
In the hospital and at home, illness data can be lucrative.
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Tobias Schwarz / Google The Microphones That May Be Hidden in Your Home
The controversy around Google’s Nest home-security devices shows that consumers never really know what their personal technology is capable of.
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Towfiqu Photography / Getty The Analysts Recording Your Screen Say It’s for Your Own Good
Secretly watching users navigate an app can help companies fix bugs. But it can also be a tool to manipulate customers’ behavior.
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VALERY HACHE / AFP / Getty San Francisco Wants to Ban Government Face Recognition
Is it too late, too difficult, or too ironic to try to stop it from becoming a city of surveillance?
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Rhona Wise / Getty Parkland Is Embracing Student Surveillance
A new report—and some parents—calls for police to gain broader-than-ever access to students’ data.
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Scott Olson / Getty Now Your Groceries See You, Too
Walgreens is exploring new tech that turns your purchases, your movements, even your gaze, into data.
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Anadolu Agency The Spyware That Brought Down El Chapo’s Drug Empire
For months, the FBI listened as Mexico’s infamous drug kingpin allegedly trafficked drugs and arranged assassinations. Here’s how.
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Ben Margot / AP The Quiet Ways Automation Is Remaking Service Work
Workers may not be replaced by robots anytime soon, but they’ll likely face shorter hours, lower pay, and stolen time.
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Stephen Brashear / Getty Who Wins When Cash Is No Longer King?
It won’t be the poor.
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Mark Blinch / Reuters The City of the Future Is a Data-Collection Machine
In Toronto, Alphabet, Google’s parent company, hopes to create the sensor-filled metropolis of tomorrow.
