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Clearview AI Demonstrates the Dangers of Facial Recognition

Facial recognition technologies (FRTs) are in the news again. This time, it is Clearview AI, a small company that until recently was virtually unknown to everyone except...

Google and IBM Are Calling for AI Regulation

Last week, Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, called for new AI regulations. The next day, IBM called for rules to eliminate AI biases that can discriminate against consumers,...

Amnesty International Calls Google and Facebook a Threat to Human Rights

We recently covered Google’s lackadaisical approach to data privacy in the context of its partnership with Ascension, a US healthcare giant. Last month, Google was under...

Google Moves Into Banking With Project Cache

Google sets its sights on another vertical to dominate: it plans to start offering checking accounts, reports The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The service, code-named...

Privacy Activists Call for the US Government to Block Google’s Acquisition of Fitbit

Nine privacy, social justice, and consumer groups have called for the US government to block Google’s $2.1-billion acquisition of Fitbit, a maker of wearable fitness...

Weighing the Price of a Data Breach: FTC Fines Facebook and Equifax in the Same Week

The US Federal Trade Commission announced both a $5-billion settlement with Facebook and a $575-million penalty against Equifax in the same week. Both were for data...

Russia Flipped the US Election

This week's issue, the result of an intensive research dive by Berit Anderson and others on the team, was driven by the increasingly obvious question: Did Russia actually...

What Is XXVI (Alphabet) (Google)?

The technology world has become terribly warped since modern China showed up for the dance, and very few companies have retained their culture, their missions, or, more...

Computational Propaganda: A FiRe Conversation with Berit Anderson

At the recent FiRe conference, Berit Anderson was interviewed by the BBC's Ed Butler on the subject of Russian interference with the US elections and what Berit calls...

FiRe 2017 in Review, Part II: Breaking Through on a Century Scale

In part two of our FiRe conference review, we continue the session synopses, including documentaries that change the world, the future of work for humans and machines,...
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