Staten Island DA Bought Clearview Face Recognition Software With Civil Forfeiture Cash
Clearview and its right-wing founder have become emblematic of the threat posed by powerful and typically unsupervised software.
Technology
Russia Is Losing a War Against Hackers Stealing Huge Amounts of Data
Dozens of Russian companies and government agencies have been hacked in apparent retribution for the invasion of Ukraine.
American Phone-Tracking Firm Demo'd Surveillance Powers by Spying on CIA and NSA
Anomaly Six, a secretive government contractor, claims to monitor the movements of billions of phones around the world and unmask spies with the press of a button.
Facebook's Ukraine-Russia Moderation Rules Prompt Cries of Double Standard
Critics point out that Facebook's human rights and free speech rules tend to match up with U.S. policy preferences.
Leaked: New Amazon Worker Chat App Would Ban Words Like “Union,” “Restrooms,” “Pay Raise,” and “Plantation”
Also: “Grievance,” “slave labor,” “This is dumb,” “living wage,” “diversity,” “vaccine,” and others.
Google Ordered Russian Translators Not to Call War in Ukraine a War
An internal email shows that despite its anti-war stance, the company bowed to Kremlin decrees.
I Want You Back: Getting My Personal Data From Amazon Was Weeks of Confusion and Tedium
I asked Amazon to provide the data it had collected on me. The process was a labyrinthine endurance test.
Leaked Chats Show Russian Ransomware Gang Discussing Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine
Chat logs reveal that members of the Conti ransomware gang repeated Putin's lies about Ukraine — and bemoaned their inability to buy Apple products.
Voices
Big Tech’s Kafkaesque Approach to Censorship Is Driven by an Abiding Contempt for Its Audience
YouTube knocked a show I co-host, The Hill’s "Rising," off the air.
Facebook Allows Praise of Neo-Nazi Ukrainian Battalion If It Fights Russian Invasion
The reversal raises questions about Facebook's blacklist-based content moderation, which critics say lacks nuance and context.