Inside the Video Surveillance Program IBM Built for Philippine Strongman Rodrigo Duterte
Law enforcement in Davao City familiar with the IBM program said the technology had assisted them in carrying out Duterte’s controversial anti-crime agenda.
Technology
Defense Tech Startup Founded by Trump's Most Prominent Silicon Valley Supporters Wins Secretive Military AI Contract
Palmer Luckey entered the tech industry with VR headsets for gaming. Now, he's deploying them for real battles through the military's Project Maven initiative.
Voices
Elizabeth Warren’s Big Tech Beatdown Will Spark a Vital and Unprecedented Debate
Elizabeth Warren's call to break up Facebook, Google, and Amazon is imperfect and light on details — but it's a good start.
Voices
Should We Trust Artificial Intelligence Regulation by Congress If Facebook Supports It?
It’s hard to square the track records of IBM and Facebook with many of the values listed in the resolution.
Voices
Mark Zuckerberg Is Trying to Play You — Again
Facebook’s promise to build a “privacy-focused platform” is little more than a hollow reaction to recent PR disasters.
Google Dragonfly
Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China Search
A group of employees said Google made hundreds of changes to smartphone apps for the controversial project, thought to be defunct.
Trump and Brexit Proved This Book Prophetic — What Calamity Will Befall Us Next?
"My concern, as I wrote the book, was that the public’s loathing of the established order was bound to implicate our democratic system itself."
Drone Wars
Google Hedges on Promise to End Controversial Involvement in Military Drone Contract
In an email obtained by The Intercept, Google said it would still support an unnamed tech company’s takeover of the Project Maven contract.
Naomi Klein and Shoshana Zuboff on the Rise of Surveillance Capitalism
Naomi Klein talks with Shoshana Zuboff, author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power."
Voices
Amazon Pullout Shows What Anti-Capitalist Organizing and Leftist Politicians Can Do
New York's old Democratic order — in the vein of Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio — backed Amazon's move, while a new crop of social democrats bucked it.