"Neighborhood message boards are already famously rife with racism, and Motherboard reported earlier this year it had found frequent racist comments on Rin…
"If voice-based accent detection can determine a person’s ethnic background, it opens up a new category of information that is incredibly interesting to th…
Amazon, the company synonymous with online shopping, is supplying facial recognition technology to government and law enforcement agencies over its web services…
"Ryan Calo, a law professor who co-directs the University of Washington‘s tech policy lab, agreed that the sort of glitch Amazon described is unlikely. But…
"Ryan Calo, a law professor who co-directs the University of Washington’s tech policy lab, agreed that the sort of glitch Amazon described is unlikely. But…
"Ryan Calo, a law professor who co-directs the University of Washington's tech policy lab, said while there are upsides to these technologies, there ar…
"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…
""Once this sort of behavior becomes normalized, it becomes harder to push back on both as a consumer and as a matter of policy," said Woodrow Ha…
Nobody likes to wait in line. So today, Amazon removed that unpleasantness from the neighborhood grocery store. At Amazon Go, you walk in, pick up your grocerie…
"“It’s not just the transaction,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor and privacy expert at the University of Maryland’s law school. “Powerful companies…
""Would it be possible for a person unknowingly to authorize a law enforcement agency or a criminal to access Amazon Key?" Elizabeth Joh, a law p…
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington who specializes in legal issues related to technology, said Amazon’s new service relies on the…