A Consumer DNA Testing Company’s Alarming New Marketing Pivot
Sometimes a marketing pivot serves a truth-telling function. A new television ad for the consumer DNA database FamilyTreeDNA asks the public to share their DNA…
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Cute robots, smart underwear, and facial recognition in church: Have we gone too far?
"In the near future, robots might be able to manipulate our emotions, everyone will be rated on everything, and we won’t be able to trust our own eyes, Woo…
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Forget Photoshop. Adobe Is a Marketing Company Now
"This can’t help but sound tone-deaf at a time when the technology industry generates privacy scandals on a near-daily basis. Adobe says it’s helping creat…
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Wilmington police chief concerned about cost of getting body cameras
"But Harlan Yu, executive director of Upturn, a nonprofit that studies the intersection between civil rights and technology, isn’t bullish on the technolog…
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Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords Exposed to Facebook Employees
"Storing passwords in an encrypted format is “not just best practice, it’s something that industry should always do,” said Jennifer Granick, a lawyer with…
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Social Security may use your Facebook and Instagram photos to nix disability claims
""You can't take someone's Facebook or other social media posts at absolute face value," said Jennifer King, director of consumer privacy…
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ACLU Wants Amazon To Stop 'Powering' Government Surveillance That Can Be Used Against Black Activists And Undocumented Immigrants
"“We already know facial recognition algorithms discriminate against black faces and are being used to violate the human rights of immigrants. We know putt…
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One year after Zuckerberg’s testimony about violent content on Facebook, has anything changed?
"“I don’t think it’s an impossible task. It’s a hard task, and it depends on the defaults we want to live with,” said Danielle Citron, a University of Mary…
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How the tragic death of Do Not Track ruined the web for everyone
"Arvind Narayanan, now an associate professor at Princeton and part of that early DNT-formulating group, said via an email statement that the prospect of f…
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The troubling state of consumer privacy: We’ve entered a ‘trust apocalypse’ era — now what?
"The troubling state of consumer privacy was the subject of a panel discussion hosted by KUOW and GeekWire in Seattle on Thursday with Marketplace Tech hos…
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Are car insurance safe-driving discounts worth the cost of giving up your privacy?
"But privacy expert Jen King fears drivers may sacrifice more than they realize. “Where you go every day can tell people a lot about what you’re intereste…
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What's Next: Why Lawyers Need to Care About Deepfakes + AI and Zoning Law (It’s Going to Be a Thing)
"Welcome back to What’s Next, where we report on the intersection of law and technology. Today, we talk with Stanford’s Riana Pfefferkorn about deepfakes a…