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Big Tech Is Playing it Safe on Iran. Workers Are Taking Charge

But in a previously unreported response, Google’s US public policy head Mark Isakowitz wrote back a month later saying that newly relaxed sanctions...

Iran Says Face Recognition Will ID Women Breaking Hijab Laws

Cathryn Grothe, a research analyst at Freedom House, a US government–backed nonprofit that works on human rights, says she has seen a shift in...

Jafar Panahi’s Ingenious, Tragic “No Bears” Is a Formalist Triumph

Formalism gets a bum rap. No style carries intrinsic virtue, but formalism, at its best, is a powerful expression of political crisis, embodying...

San Francisco’s Killer Robots Threaten the City’s Most Vulnerable

One effect of AB 481 is to add local oversight to hardware like the kind obtained through a US Department of Defense program...

Algorithms Quietly Run the City of DC—and Maybe Your Hometown

Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that...

How to Protect Yourself If Your School Uses Surveillance Tech

Pfefferkorn also encourages asking your school to perform an audit of its monitoring software, which could reveal what kind of content the algorithm...

Spyware Scandals Are Ripping Through Europe

Last year in Hungary, six people discovered their phones had been hacked by NSO group’s Pegasus, after they were tipped off by the...

Drone Contraband Deliveries Are Rampant at US Prisons

It’s not children who are committing these heists, of course. It’s people running jobs on the inside and the outside. Internet-connected cell phones...

How Might Your Data Be Used to Pin Charges on You?

This week’s big news in tech: Uber behaved badly. A massive document dump reveals that it knowingly broke laws to roll out its...

2 Visions Clash Over How to Fight Online Child Abuse in Europe

Encrypted messenger services have been quick to condemn the Commission’s proposal. Julia Weiss, a spokesperson for the Swiss messenger app Threema, says the...

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