In a possible first, facial recognition has led to a wrongful...
What the arrest of Robert Julian-Borchak Williams in Michigan shows about the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement.
The battle to outlaw end-to-end encryption in the U.S. is heating...
This post was originally published on July 2, 2020. Following the introduction of the EARN IT bill in the U.S....
Not so (artificially) intelligent: 8 times machine learning got it wrong
Billions of dollars have been poured into artificial intelligence (AI) research, with proponents of the technology arguing that computers...
What is internet privacy and how should you protect your online...
We use the internet for just about everything in our personal and private lives—and what we do online has...
New Android malware targets Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp
This article was originally published on June 1, 2020. A new Android zero-day exploit, targeting primarily Thai users, has been...
Covid-19’s biggest casualty will be the further degradation of our individual...
History, as they say, often repeats itself. And we’ve definitely seen this before. It took a cataclysmic event to sow...
Survey: Americans distrust contact-tracing apps but are willing to use them...
A new survey by ExpressVPN found that 75% of people believe that contact-tracing apps violate a person’s privacy.
What is cybercrime? 5 types and examples of cybercrime explained
Think about large-scale heists and it’s normal to conjure an image of a group of thieves robbing a bank,...
Contactless supermarkets are here. But at what cost?
Contactless stores and delivery options have shot into the mainstream thanks to the spread of Covid-19. What does it mean for privacy?
The U.S. might permanently ban end-to-end encryption
This post was originally published on April 23, 2020. The Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT)...
