Surveillance

The Internet of Things has the potential to usher in many possibilities—including a mass surveillance state. In the July issue, I wrote about how user consent is an important prerequisite for companies building connected devices. But there are other ways companies are trying to ensure that connected devices don’t invade people’s…

In “Schrems II” (Case C-311/18), the CJEU invalidated Privacy Shield based on the potential interference with data subject rights caused by US government surveillance carried out under Section 702 of FISA and EO 12333. The Court also referred to PRISM and UPSTREAM, two surveillance programs revealed by the Snowden leaks.…

Canadians may now request they not appear in Clearview AI’s facial recognition search results, days after the controversial U.S.-based firm announced it was pulling out of this country. Sometime this week, Clearview quietly posted a link on its website allowing Canadian residents to “opt out.” The company doesn’t ask for…

Google’s push to become a privacy-positive company over the past year has been, depending on how you look at it, an act of genuine benevolence, a brilliant marketing decision, or straight-up bullshit. So when Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the company’s latest moves in the privacy-protecting space on Twitter yesterday,…

• Trump 2020 app uses data to sidestep online platforms • Biden app accesses phone contacts to build ‘relational organizing’ • Trump inspiration appears to come from India’s Narendra Modi Ahead of President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his 2020 re-election campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted about the event. “Just…

Have you ever wondered why online ads appear for things that you were just thinking about? There’s no big conspiracy. Ad tech can be creepily accurate. Tech giant Oracle is one of a few companies in Silicon Valley that has near-perfected the art of tracking people across the internet. The…

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. How citizens and authorities respond to one another during large-scale protests — including how they use technology as a tool in the battle — can say a lot about trust in the…

Surveillance in the US goes back to the transatlantic slave trade, and its use has entirely targeted or had the worst impact on marginalized and systemically oppressed communities.PHOTOGRAPH: MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS used surveillance technology to monitor participants of the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests, as it has with…

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Twitter Inc. flagged one of Donald Trump’s posts for violating its rules against glorifying violence, escalating a clash with the U.S. president after he signed an executive order that seeks to limit liability protections for social-media companies. Early Friday, the social media company obscured the president’s comments about protests in…