CyberWell has pushed to censor accurate social media posts about IDF and Hamas conduct in the Gaza war by claiming such speech is tantamount to Holocaust denial

“Jack Welch’s damage to the corporate world and society is more like that of a war criminal. He showed corporate America how unprofitable a soul was.”

At the conversational AI conference. By Laura Preston

Alex Odeh’s story is more than an unsolved murder case

The American attitude toward the French Revolution has been generally favorable—naturally enough for a nation itself born in revolution.

PC Manager app is only available in some regions, but could come to the US eventually

The tech giant is compensating US customers and faces similar allegations in the UK.

Why Vivaldi browser thinks Google’s new proposal, the Web-Environment-Integrity spec, is a major threat to the open web and should be pushed back.

Artificial intelligence is helping American cops look for “suspicious” patterns of movement using license plate databases.

The future of the internet could be at stake.

Cities and counties across the country have banned government use of face surveillance technology, and many more are weighing proposals to do so. From Boston to San Francisco, Jackson, Mississippi to Minneapolis, elected officials and activists know that face surveillance gives police the power to track us wherever we go.

The FBI previously purchased access to "netflow" data, which a company called Team Cymru obtains from ISPs. Team Cymru then sells it to the government.

Facial recognition firm Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US police, its founder has told the BBC. CEO Hoan Ton-That also revealed Clearview now has 30bn images scraped from platforms such as Facebook, taken without users' permissions. The company has been repeatedly fined millions of dollars in Europe and Australia for breaches of privacy.

Apple launched the AirTag to help track your bag or keep an eye on pets. Law enforcement agencies are now using it to clamp down on drug operations.

The university installed a series of heat sensors under desks aimed roughly at crotch height, intended to detect when a human (or other suitably warm object) was sitting at a desk.

While the government had previously claimed it had no interest in using spyware to investigate criminals, new reporting from the NYT suggests otherwise.

Use of live facial recognition (LFR) by UK police forces "fail[s] to meet the minimum ethical and legal standards," according to a study from the University of Cambridge. After analyzing LFR use by the Metropolitan (Met) and South Wales police, researchers concluded that the technology should be banned for use in "all public spaces." LFR pairs faces captured by security cameras to database photos to find matches. China and other non-democratic regimes have used the technology to as part of their state surveillance tools.