‘After controversy earlier this month over televisions recording owners and sending the clips to third parties, smartphone owners are now discovering that companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft are also recording voice commands and storing […]
‘Increased surveillance in Britain, along with the reduction of access to justice, have contributed to one of the worst assaults on human rights in Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall, according to a […]
‘Between 2015 and 2017, the Pentagon will have the ability to decipher human voices in surveillance audio even if background noise makes the covertly recorded conversations inaudible. This may bring to mind the surveillance audio […]
‘What to think of a policy that bombs countries and leaves them to their fate? Most observers of US foreign policy since 2001 regard this policy as a failure. They look upon the ruins of […]
‘A new toy called “Hello Barbie” will have conversations with children, record those conversations and send it to servers where it will get analyzed! “Whatever we come away with as our first blush attempt at […]
‘Smartphone users might balk at letting a random app like Candy Crush or Shazam track their every move via GPS. But researchers have found that Android phones reveal information about your location to every app […]
‘Picking faces out of a crowd is something humans are hardwired to do, but training computers to act in the same way is much more difficult. There have been various breakthroughs in this field in […]
‘Every book you read on your Kindle (or Kindle app) and every word you highlight in those ebooks is recorded by Amazon and may be shared by the bookselling behemoth with the federal government. The […]
‘A new campaign by human rights watchdog Privacy International could allow millions of citizens in Britain and elsewhere to have data that was collected on them deleted. The Privacy International campaign, “Did GCHQ illegally spy […]
Voice Search extension project described as ‘Ear of Sauron’ ‘Those uneasy about Samsung’s “smart” television terms and conditions are going to have a nervous wobble about a project along the same lines underway at Google’s […]
Voice Search extension project described as ‘Ear of Sauron’ ‘Those uneasy about Samsung’s “smart” television terms and conditions are going to have a nervous wobble about a project along the same lines underway at Google’s […]
‘Advocates for less government snooping suffered a blow Tuesday when a federal judge in California ruled that a group of citizens can not sue the National Security Agency to stop the “upstream” collection of their […]