A company using technology in recycling bins to track smartphones has been asked to stop by the City of London Corporation.

When you walk into a brick and mortar retail store like a Nordstrom, Cabela, or even Family Dollar, you're being tracked around the store. Not by an over-suspicious security guard, but by the store's wireless network, using your phone's Wi-Fi. The store then uses your phone to track you around the store, determine if you're a repeat visitor, see what departments you visit, and more. Here's how they do it, and how to stop them.

Twitter has a history of cooperating with Israeli authorities.

Proud to anounce: #ProjectAlias a parasite for the surveillance age that lets you be in controle of your smart home device. Check out the project at https://t.co/p3T57qp4Gc pic.twitter.com/nugeSUGWaB— Bjørn Karmann (@BjoernKarmann) January 14, 2019

Semiautonomous driving systems are designed to ignore unmoving obstacles because otherwise, they couldn't work at all.

The founders of Predictim want to be clear with me: Their product—an algorithm that scans the online footprint of a prospective babysitter to determine their “risk” levels for parents—is not racist. It is not biased.

That’s not a great look

"They're very good at running out the clock on you."

Sources disclosed troubling privacy practices at a Ring office in Ukraine.

Att erbjuda snabba lösningar för patientgrupper som har de minsta behoven av läkarkontakt följer inte hälso- och sjukvårdslagens regler för prioriteringar, skriver Sveriges primärvårdsförening.

We can exploit the platform’s failings to reclaim our humanity

To truly achieve inclusiveness, we need to first look at who we’re excluding.

1998 "Don't get in a car with strangers" 2008: "Don't meet people from the internet alone." 2018: UBER Order yourself a stranger from the internet to get into a car with alone HEY from Imgur tagged as Being alone Meme

Ethics are an innate part of business.

Just wow. The biggest murmuration of starlings I have ever seen. What a treat. pic.twitter.com/kFnaIDJ61v— Ricky Martin (@RexMartin) December 28, 2018

Agents of disinformation use anonymous online spaces to seed rumors and fabricated content, hoping to eventually reach professional news…

The intimate recordings paint a detailed picture of a man's life.

An update on Google's AI principles.

Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed.

Back in 2015, a woman named Imy Santiago wrote an Amazon review of a novel that she had read and liked. Amazon immediately took the review down and told Santiago she had “violated its policies.” Santiago re-read her review, didn’t see anything objectionable about it, so she tried to post it again. “You’re not eligible to review this product,” an Amazon prompt informed her.

The #StopTheBias campaign has a pernicious goal: it is yet another way for Trump and his minions to undermine the credibility of the mainstream media.

We all tend to oversimplify complex things into two competing ideologies: generalist or specialist, objective or subjective, individual or team. This can be useful, but it can also make us think we should pick a side. It also becomes an issue when we try and solve them—calling these things ‘problems’ implies there is a correct answer somewhere. But there often isn’t, and it takes us too long to realise. What if we had a tool that facilitated good conversations about these complex topics upfront? Where the goal isn’t a decision, but recognition? The answer to a question like ‘Should we focus...

Google knows nearly everything about you, from how you commute to your relationship status. There have never been more opportunities for marketers to exploit that data.