Technology

An institute at New York University compares some machine learning products today to pseudoscience from the 19th century.

In a chat seized by U.K. authorities, privacy officer Yul Kwon discussed how Facebook planned to circumvent an Android privacy dialog.

Hammond is starting his third week in solitary confinement — a duration that the U.N. says is tantamount to torture.

The software, developed under contract, will be given to foreign governments. It is already being tested.

I worked as a research scientist at Google when Dragonfly was revealed and resigned in protest after a month of internally fighting for clarification.

Google executives ignored internal warnings about their censored China search plan and threatened that employees would be fired if they spoke out.

Joining a day of protest led by Amnesty International, the workers have gone public with a letter rebuking their bosses.

The campaign will include demonstrations outside Google offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, and Spain.

This form of international data-sharing could put Americans’ privacy at risk and expose citizens to potential Fourth Amendment abuses, critics say.

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.