By James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Artificial intelligence systems can – if properly used – help make government more effective and responsive, improving the lives…
By Aaron Kesel Across Europe, MEPs voted successfully to redesign the Internet with a censorship directive disguised as a copyright proposal, while the UK itself…
By Dave Maas Despite Facebook’s repeated warnings that law enforcement is required to use “authentic identities” on the social media platform, cops continue to create…
By MassPrivateI If ever there was a red flag story about Amazon’s Alexa then this is it. If you watch the “Alexa for Medical Care…
By Aaron Kesel The FBI is abusing ancestry genealogy websites by tapping into their DNA data. What’s worse, these companies are giving up users’ data…
By Tyler Durden Amazon employs thousands of people to listen in on what people around the world are saying to their Alexa digital assistant, according to what…
By Nathan Sheard The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) is about to make a bad privacy situation worse, and it’s urgent that Los Angeles…
By Technocracy News and Trends Hotels are being retrofitted from top to bottom into “smart hotels” where everything is controlled by apps, AI and robots….
By Bennett Cyphers and Jason Kelley Once again, Facebook is in the news for bad security practices, dark design patterns, and secretly reappropriating sensitive data…
By Michael Maharrey Last week, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed a bill into law that requires police to get a warrant before accessing data stored in…
By Jennifer Lynch Last week, we filed an amicus brief in U.S. v. Wilson, a federal appellate case, in which we argued that email providers’…
By B.N. Frank There are many reasons – besides fires and explosions – to be concerned about the tens of millions of utility “Smart” Meters…
By Sean Walton FEMA mishandled the personal information of 2.3 million people driven out of their homes by wildfires in 2017 and hurricanes, an Inspector General…
By Aaron Kesel The Chinese military was indirectly benefiting from the work Alphabet Inc’s Google was doing in China with Project Dragonfly, according to top…