Technology

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.

A recent book by James Bridle, “New Dark Age,” argues technology is clouding our understanding of the world around us and making that world more dangerous.

“I might sound to you like a scammer. Don’t worry, I won’t take it the wrong way.”

Employee advocates caution that the arbitration changes are a response to pressure and could be reversed.

A new patent shows how Alexa could derive ethnic origin and emotion by analyzing speech. Experts think the government could come after the resulting data.

Local organizers in Toronto have united to push Google out of their government.