privacy

For The New York Times, Kashmir Hill describes the implications of facial recognition…

An anonymous source supplied BuzzFeed News with usage data from Clearview AI, the…

For NYT Opinion, Charlie Warzel and Stuart A. Thompson returned to the topic…

Joseph Cox, reporting for Motherboard:
Some app developers Motherboard spoke to were not…

To combat cheating during online exams, many schools have utilized services that try…

Companies are tracking what you do online. You know this. But it can…

Adam Pearce and Ellen Jiang for Google’s PAIR, explain how granular data can…

Sara Morrison for Recode:
Then there’s Cuebiq, which collected location data through its…

Maddy Varner reporting for The Markup:
“All protesting and all marches are a…

To increase anonymity in the Census records, the bureau is testing an algorithm…

File another one under the sounds-good-on-paper-but-really-challenging-in-practice. Kashmir Hill, for The New York Times,…

A file leaked to The New York Times contained location traces of 12…

Alfred Ng for CNET:
Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, sent a…

For The New York Times, Kevin Litman-Navarro plotted the length and readability of…

For The New York Times, Sahil Chinoy on privacy and how easy it…

Digital assistants offer convenience, but they also offer continuous surveillance, and it’s not…

The New York Times takes a closer look at the data that apps…

Mark Hansen for The Upshot describes the search for balance between individual privacy…

Sapna Maheshwari for The New York Times on Samba TV software running on…

Many surveillance apps cater to parents who want to keep tabs on their…