Advertising trade group calls for federal data privac regulationy, in an obvious attempt bet that Washington won’t toughen standards nearly as much as California has done and other states are also considering.
Read more...“We asked Scottish writers how online surveillance has impacted on their work. The answers we got were shocking.”
Read more...More on the arrest and planned extradition of Huawei CFO Meng.
Read more...A US criminal case targeting Huawei has thrown a big spanner into US-China relations.
Read more...New research shows that ‘master’ fingerprints can bypass smartphone fingerprint ID systems – thus striking another blow at the biometric ID fairy.
Read more...More evidence that Amazon is nasty.
Read more...The UK’s surveillance state poses legal problems for the legality of personal data transfers to it post Brexit, and the UK and EU are not close to having a solution.
Read more...But I want to talk about the western “experts” in Washington and London who cozied up to @ShamiWitness — especially since all of them are still around, many of them bigger and more influential in our political discourse than ever.
Read more...How Silicon Valley giants like Amazon and Palantir team up with ICE to hunt down immigrants, pick out the innocent as potential criminals, and build the cloud for Defense Department and CIA.
Read more...All the initiatives that want to make AI ethical seem to think it’s about adding something i.e. ethics, instead of about revealing the value-laden-ness at every level of computation, right down to the mathematics.
Read more...Debate, prison debate, and an injustice you may be able to help rectify
Read more...The time is overdue to Do Something about Facebook and Google.
Read more...Matt Taibbi weighs in on how tech giants are endangering your civil liberties.
Read more...An insider’s take on surveillance.
Read more...A libertarian case against Silicon Valley’s digital slavemasters.
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