Google Continues Investments in Military and Police AI Technology Through Venture Capital Arm
Google promises interested firms access to its own AI training data and sometimes places Google engineers within the companies as a resource.
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Why an "AI Race" Between the U.S. and China Is a Terrible, Terrible Idea
We don’t need to win this nationalistic race — especially when we don’t even know what’s at the finish line.
Before Being Hacked, Border Surveillance Firm Lobbied to Downplay Security and Privacy Concerns About Its Technology
The CEO of Perceptics, which makes license plate readers, claimed that “CBP has none of the privacy concerns at the border that all agencies have inland.”
Middle East Dictators Buy Spy Tech From Company Linked to IBM and Google
Iran and Syria are the only countries in the region where Semptian would refuse to sell its surveillance tools, an employee said.
How U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State
A nonprofit led by Google and IBM executives is working with Semptian, whose technology is monitoring the internet activity of 200 million people in China.
Hacked Border Surveillance Firm Wants To Profile Drivers, Passengers, and Their “Likely Trip Purpose" In New York City
Using a network of cameras, Perceptics wants to collect congestion pricing tolls — and to infer things about drivers, alarming privacy advocates.
In Court, Facebook Blames Users for Destroying Their Own Right to Privacy
“The whole premise of Facebook is to render not private” your activity, said company lawyer, fighting off lawsuits over Cambridge Analytica data collection.
Team of American Hackers and Emirati Spies Discussed Attacking The Intercept
Spies working for the United Arab Emirates discussed the attack with operatives at controversial firm DarkMatter.
Right-Wing Sting Group Project Veritas Is Breaking Facebook's "Authentic Behavior" Rule. Now What?
Sworn testimony by a Project Veritas operative shows the group is violating Facebook rules designed to curb troll farms, a key expert says.
China Bans The Intercept and Other News Sites in "Censorship Black Friday"
The crackdown also impacts The Guardian, Washington Post, NBC News, and others, and may be related to the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.