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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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.
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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.
