For Owners of Amazon's Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been Watching Too
Sources disclosed troubling privacy practices at a Ring office in Ukraine.
Technology
Year in Review 2018
Silicon Noir and the End of Techno-Optimism: The Intercept’s 2018 Tech Coverage
This will likely go down as the year when technology, once envisioned as an equalizing force, finally went headlong down the path toward dystopia.
Google Dragonfly
Google's Secret China Project "Effectively Ended" After Internal Confrontation
Google reassigned several groups of engineers away from a planned censored search engine after a rift over its use of real internet queries in China for testing.
Google Dragonfly
Google CEO Hammered by Members of Congress on China Censorship Plan
Sundar Pichai told the House Judiciary Committee that Google has “no plans to launch a search service in China.”
Google Dragonfly
Rights Groups Turn Up Pressure on Google Over China Censorship Ahead of Congressional Hearing
Google risks being “complicit in human rights violations” if it brings censored search back to China, said a global coalition of over 60 groups.
Artificial Intelligence Experts Issue Urgent Warning Against Facial Scanning With a "Dangerous History"
An institute at New York University compares some machine learning products today to pseudoscience from the 19th century.
Here’s Facebook’s Former “Privacy Sherpa” Discussing How to Harm Your Facebook Privacy
In a chat seized by U.K. authorities, privacy officer Yul Kwon discussed how Facebook planned to circumvent an Android privacy dialog.
Imprisoned Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Bumped a Guard With a Door — and Got Thrown in Solitary Confinement
Hammond is starting his third week in solitary confinement — a duration that the U.N. says is tantamount to torture.
Homeland Security Will Let Computers Predict Who Might Be a Terrorist on Your Plane — Just Don’t Ask How It Works
The software, developed under contract, will be given to foreign governments. It is already being tested.
Voices
I Quit Google Over Its Censored Chinese Search Engine. The Company Needs to Clarify Its Position on Human Rights.
I worked as a research scientist at Google when Dragonfly was revealed and resigned in protest after a month of internally fighting for clarification.