manhattan institute Peter Thiel claims AI is "Leninist" and "literally communist" in a sprawling speech for a think tank Thom Dunn
behavioral detection Eminent psychologists condemn "emotion detection" systems as being grounded in junk science Cory Doctorow
ad-tech Empirical analysis of behavioral advertising finds that surveillance makes ads only 4% more profitable for media companies Cory Doctorow
locational privacy AT&T's dystopian advertising vision perfectly illustrates the relationship between surveillance and monopoly Cory Doctorow
negativland Exclusive: "More Data": Negativland's video short about data privacy and surveillance Mark Hosler, Negativland
borked The Antitrust Case Against Facebook: a turning point in the debate over Big Tech and monopoly Cory Doctorow
ccla Canadian Civil Liberties Association sues Toronto, Ontario, and Canada over the plan for a Google Sidewalk Labs "smart city" in Toronto Cory Doctorow
internet association Illinois almost passed a bill that banned devices that record you without your consent — and then Big Tech stepped in Cory Doctorow
voice assistants Amazon stores recordings of Alexa interactions and turns them over to internal staff and outside contractors for review Cory Doctorow
zuckster fire Mobile apps built with Facebook's SDK secretly shovel mountains of personal information into the Zuckermouth Cory Doctorow