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.
Technology
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.
Amazon’s Home Surveillance Chief Declared War on "Dirtbag Criminals" as Company Got Closer to Police
Video and internal emails show how Amazon’s Ring has blurred the line between private innovation and public law enforcement.
Voices
Jeff Bezos Protests the Invasion of His Privacy, as Amazon Builds a Sprawling Surveillance State for Everyone Else
One of the world's greatest privacy invaders just had his privacy invaded.
Drone Wars
Google Hired Gig Economy Workers to Improve Artificial Intelligence in Controversial Drone-Targeting Project
Hired through an online gig economy platform, workers unknowingly helped Google improve its artificial intelligence military-targeting software.
"A Fundamentally Illegitimate Choice": Shoshana Zuboff on the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Even those who've tracked technology will be chilled to their core by Zuboff's new book.