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This Is How Alexa Can Record Private Conversations
"People have been willing to overlook glitches in the Echo, like it turning on accidentally or without the wake word being uttered, said Ryan Calo, an asso…
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Uber Self-Driving Car in Crash Wasn't Programmed to Brake
""That seems like a serious design omission," Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina’s School of Law, who studies a…
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Why Jimmy Can’t Count: The FBI Has Lost All Credibility on “Going Dark”
On May 22, the Washington Post reported a jawdropping screw-up by the FBI that will, if there is any justice left in the world, have significant repercussions f…
The Constitution requires a census and State of the Union. Steve Ballmer wants to bring them up to date.
Steve Ballmer is the former CEO of Microsoft and the creator of USAFacts, an organization dedicated to making government data sources more publicly accessible a…
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Trump Can't Block Critics on Twitter. What This Means For You
"Neil Richards, a law professor at Washington University School of law, says the case is particularly important because it seeks to assess how the internet…
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We know you're not reading all those new terms of service emails. You might want to.
"Northeastern professor Woodrow Hartzog, whose new book, Privacy’s Blueprint, published last month, calls the law a “watershed moment,” saying it’s built o…
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'Recipe for authoritarianism': Amazon under fire for selling face-recognition software to police
"Amazon marketing materials promoted the idea of using Rekognition in conjunction with police body cameras in real time – exactly the outcome Cyril feared.…
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Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police. Critics See Surveillance Risk.
"“We have it being used in unaccountable ways and with no regulation,” said Malkia Cyril, executive director of the Center for Media Justice, a nonprofit c…
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The Line Between Big Tech and Defense Work
"One of the letter’s organizers, Peter Asaro, an associate professor at The New School, says there are no plans for similar letter for Microsoft or Amazon,…
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‘Too inconvenient’: Trump goes rogue on phone security
"“This would be the case of a president overruling literally the most rudimentary advice given by the communications agencies,” said Andrew McLaughlin, who…
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Academics protest Google’s role in drone murder
"“It is clear that the Pentagon aims to build out Project Maven to armed drones, and its functionality does not need much adjustment to become a target rec…
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Unfiltered: ‘Time is running out’
"In this week’s episode of Yahoo News’ Unfiltered, we talk to New School professor Peter Asaro about the dangers of artificial intelligence technology and…