Sidney Fussell
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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Tony Avelar / AP Images People Are Starting to Realize How Voice Assistants Actually Work
The secrecy surrounding AI products makes even basic information about them a scandal.
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Michael Dwyer / AP The Endless, Invisible Persuasion Tactics of the Internet
Online shopping turns your brain against you, but you can fight back.
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Eric Lafforgue / Art In All Of Us ... The Parent Hack
The latest sensor-enabled technology treats parenting as something to be hacked.
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Kirill Kudryatvsev / AFP / Getty FaceApp Is Everyone’s Problem
It feels good to call out people for being duped by the Russian app, but the individualist framing of privacy is the bigger culprit.
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Mark Lennihan / AP What Amazon Thinks You’re Worth
Shoppers were offered a $10 credit in exchange for handing over their browser data. It’s an investment that pays dividends for Amazon.
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Alastair Grant / AP Photo The AI That Could Help Curb Youth Suicide
For many reasons, parents and teachers may fail to intervene when they spot LGBTQ teens in trouble. Can Google help?
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Bryan Cox / AP ICE and the Ever-Widening Surveillance Dragnet
ICE agents have used facial-recognition technology on state driver’s-license photos, turning a public database into a de facto criminal database.
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Grey Villet / The LIFE Picture Collection / ... How Stonewall Reversed a Long History of Justifying Police Surveillance
Entrapment schemes targeting gay men continue across the country, but the Stonewall resistance changed their meaning.
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Alex Wong / Getty Images The Strange Politics of Facial Recognition
Everyone seems to have found common ground on the emerging technology. That’s exactly what its makers want.
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Thomas Peter / Reuters You No Longer Own Your Face
Students were recorded for research—and then became part of a data set that lives forever online, potentially accessible to anyone.
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Amazon Ring Amazon Ring Will Survive the Anti-surveillance Backlash
People are far more comfortable with surveillance when they think they’re the only ones watching.
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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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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.
