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Pa's story: how a facial recognition system potentially failed to recognise a driver of colour and may have cost him his job

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Content Type: Long Read

Managed by Bots: surveillance of gig economy workers

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Content Type: News & Analysis

Afghanistan: What Now After Two Decades of Building Data-Intensive Systems?

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Content Type: Long Read

All Eyes on my Period? Period tracking apps and the future of privacy in a post-Roe world

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Content Type: Long Read

Enter the Fediverse

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Content Type: Long Read

Your future AI Assistant still needs to earn your trust

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Content Type: News & Analysis

The US border surveillance expansion has global implications

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Content Type: Long Read

From chatbots to adbots: sharing your thoughts with advertisers

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Content Type: Explainer

Infrared temperature screening

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Content Type: Advocacy

Privacy International’s submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education

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Content Type: News & Analysis

Generative AI won't take over the world, surveillance capitalism already has

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Content Type: Advocacy

PI response to ICO consultation on web scraping by generative AI

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Content Type: Long Read

Covid Contact tracing apps are a complicated mess: what you need to know

Content Type: Examples

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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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