For just $129, you too can make a friend. Technology startup Friend has taken over the New York City subway system with walls of minimalistic and dystopian advertising as part of a new ad campaign — ...

It was a week after Independence day in 2017; a startup founder friend had hit upon a great idea: micro-loans for those without a credit history, tapping unrelated data such as mobile recharges. Over ...

The impact of “Surveillance Capitalism” and this new data economy will be tremendous, but the outlook for the future is still up in the air. Personally, I think that if we continue down this course—an ...

As I write this, I can’t help but reflect on the world we lived in three decades ago. A time before smartphones, smartwatches, and social media — before the algorithm learned how to think for us. We ...

The issues that Deep Lab grappled with finally began making news headline in 2013, despite existing for much longer. We knew about China’s sweeping surveillance of its citizens, but few imagined the ...

You use a VPN to improve your online privacy, whether for streaming, or gaming, or some other purpose. But privacy comes at a cost, with certain companies, like Apple, gaining disproportionate control ...

Throughout history, humans have always searched for ways to predict the future. AI is just the latest tool to try to predict how humans will behave. While some believe that predictive tools can be ...

Part manifesto, part deeply researched modern history, former Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff’s book urgently examines the tech industry’s increasingly disconcerting abuse of human ...

State Laws Against Surveillance and License Plate Cams: What Works Best for Your Privacy ...

Video surveillance, face recognition and artificial intelligence have become common in physical security. For colleges and universities, that raises some serious questions about privacy. Benefits to ...