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Technology has allowed personal intimacy and connection to flourish too much, and anywhere. Now every space is a superspace, a place that might be fused together with any other.
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The technologies Facebook uses to put advertising it deems relevant in front of people may be more responsible for the polarization of American politics than previously understood, a team of researchers has concluded.
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Smart technology can make it easier to keep tabs on your home when you’re on vacation, but it also makes it harder to really get away.
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Joseph Simons, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, described a settlement with Google over children’s privacy violations on YouTube as “a significant victory” for parents.
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Custom malware disguaised as benign software was used to steal wallet addresses of cryptocurrenct holders for months.
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AI systems are being used to detect whether people are standing less than 6 feet apart during the COVID-19 pandemic, but concerns are being raised around whether temperature tracking is. or could become a serious privacy concern.
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While digital surveillance is being used to curb coronavirus, it also has the potential to be used long after the pandemic to monitor individuals' movement.
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Dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information in gigantic data files. The Times Privacy Project obtained one such files.
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A new law would give the country’s 1.3 billion people more power over data collected by companies but allow the government to exempt itself from the rules.
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More colleges are taking advantage of big data technology to keep tabs on students and find ways to intervene, but it's gotten to the point for tracking student locations on campus, raising privacy concerns.