Google's Sidewalk Labs Plans to Package and Sell Location Data on Millions of Cellphones
Google's sibling company Sidewalk Labs offers planning agencies the ability to model an entire city's patterns of movement.
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The Dangerous Junk Science of Vocal Risk Assessment
AC Global Risk claims to be able to determine your level of “risk” as an employee or an asylum-seeker based not on what you say, but how you say it.
Google’s “Smart City of Surveillance” Faces New Resistance in Toronto
Local organizers in Toronto have united to push Google out of their government.
Are New York’s Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks Tracking Your Movements?
Code accidentally made public on the internet suggests that LinkNYC may be actively planning to track users’ locations.
Black Hat Hacker Conference Begins to Grapple With Gender Discrimination and Sexual Assault in Cybersecurity
For the first time, the conference invited speakers to address gender discrimination, sexual assault, mental health, and substance abuse.
The War on Immigrants
DNA Testing Might Help Reunite Families Separated by Trump. But It Could Create a Privacy Nightmare.
Companies like 23andMe and MyHeritage have offered free DNA kits to help unite immigrant families. Immigration and privacy advocates are not so enthused.
Interpol Rolls Out International Voice Identification Database Using Samples From 192 Law Enforcement Agencies
The Speaker Identification Integrated Project marks a major development in the international expansion of voice biometrics for law enforcement use.
Can #MeToo Change the Toxic Culture of Sexism and Harassment at Cybersecurity Conferences?
Gatherings like Def Con and RSA are notorious for sexist behavior and alienating women — problems that plague the tech industry as a whole.
Face Recognition Is Now Being Used in Schools, but It Won’t Stop Mass Shootings
Lockport, New York, is not the first school district to deploy the advanced surveillance technology used in prisons, airports, and border checkpoints.
Amazon Partnership with British Police Alarms Privacy Advocates
A partnership with police will permit some Amazon Echo owners to report crimes directly through their smart speakers.