Silicon Valley – Not Governments – Will Kill Encryption
It is Silicon Valley that will roll back the protections of encryption, not for the needs of governments to combat […]
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Can AI Be a Fair Judge in Court? Estonia Thinks So
Estonia plans to use an artificial intelligence program to decide some small-claims cases, part of a push to make government […]
With facial recognition, shoplifting may get you banned in places you’ve never been
There are hundreds of stores using facial recognition – none that have any rules or standards to prevent abuse. With […]
Personal information management systems: A new era for individual privacy?
PIMS, also referred to as personal data stores, personal data spaces, or personal data vaults, are systems that allow people […]
A New Age of Warfare: How Internet Mercenaries Do Battle for Authoritarian Governments
Sophisticated surveillance, once the domain of world powers, is increasingly available on the private market. Smaller countries are seizing on […]
MoviePass founder wants to use facial recognition to score you free movies
PreShow is developing an app to earn you free movie tickets – to any film in any theater – if […]
Think about privacy the next time you ask Alexa the weather
More and more people are starting to think twice before asking Alexa for the daily forecast. According to a recent […]
EU Advocate General Issues Opinion on Consent for Cookies and Intersection with the GDPR
On March 21, 2019, Advocate General Szpunar released his opinion in the Planet49 case, currently pending before the Court of […]
How the tragic death of Do Not Track ruined the web for everyone
A decade ago, a simple browser setting – called Do Not Track – promised to make it easy to protect […]
Google adds DuckDuckGo as Default Search Engine Option
Google recently released version 73 of its Chrome browser that now includes pro-privacy search engine options like the popular DuckDuckGo. […]
Chrome will soon make it harder for websites to spy on you
A new feature coming to Chrome in the near future will allow users to limit the kind of data certain […]
Facial recognition: Apple, Amazon, Google and the race for your face
Facial recognition is a blossoming field of technology that is at once exciting and problematic. If you’ve ever unlocked your […]