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Researchers scraped videos of transgender vloggers off YouTube without their knowledge to train facial recognition software

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Facebook expands advertising transparency

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Bluetooth tracking and COVID-19: A tech primer

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Future Scenario: Data Rights

identity in the future
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Future Scenario: National Data Funds

Data as labour
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Future Scenario: Data Labour

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Privacy protests lead Mattel to cancel child-focused AI smart hub

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Bricks-and-mortar retailers adapt online tracking techniques for the physical world

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Big data intelligence company builds advertising audiences from mobile tracking at Iowa caucuses

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Researchers test using smart card travel ticket data to find pickpockets

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Singapore enhances smart city programme with pervasive data collection

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Royal Parks covertly tracks visitors via mobile phone data

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Affective computing provides new frontier in user manipulation

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Banks turn to smartphone metadata to assess lending risk

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Social media sites push back against police

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Governments adopt social media as tool for surveillance and propaganda

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Anti-Choice Groups Use Smartphone Surveillance to Target ‘Abortion-Minded Women’ During Clinic Visits

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MIT device uses wireless signals to identify emotions

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How China uses mass surveillance and big data to deal with social unrest

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Baidu aggregates map search data to predict crowd formation

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Fighting data-exploitative business models

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Building resistance to post-9/11 overreach

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The fight for the global standard in data protection law

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Polar social site reveals work and home locations of military personnel

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Austria proposes to seize asylum seekers' devices to check their identities and travel routes

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Amazon patents illness-spotting speech analyser

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Smartphone app monitors mental health status

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Before Cambridge Analytica 'research' was 'gay' face and 'personality' studies

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Mined behavioural computing data shows early signs of Parkinson's Disease

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Massachusetts attorney general bars anti-abortion mobile advertising inside women's health clinics