A multibillion-dollar ed-tech industry says it needs to track student performance to improve education, but privacy advocates and parents worry about children's data being exploited for profit.
Blacks are more likely to be killed in Missouri than any other state, and five black women in St. Louis were recently killed in rapid succession. Do local police care?
The NSA's ability to turn voice into text is not technically a secret. Over the years, however, there's been almost no public discussion of the spy agency's use of automated speech recognition.
The former senator, now a movie industry lobbyist, wrote that "while loyalty to a person and/or party is admirable, we also need to be smarter about being supportive of those who are and will be in positions to make decisions that affect this industry."
A mall "intelligence analyst" used a fake Facebook account to monitor local Black Lives Matter organizers, according to documents obtained by <em>The Intercept</em>.
Top-secret documents show the NSA can automatically recognize the content within phone calls, generating easily searched transcriptions.
Britain and Canada spied on the location, apps, and device identifiers of smartphone users by piggybacking on ad and analytics software.
Duncan Campbell spent 30 years — and risked his freedom — uncovering the secrets of U.S. and British eavesdropping, including the existence of ECHELON, one of the biggest spy scandals of the Cold War. Now, thanks to Edward Snowden, he has proof of ECHELON's existence.
Governments are secretly exploiting hackers' information and expertise, according to top secret documents.
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