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China's Ant Financial deploys credit-worthiness scores

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Car insurers turn to third parties to verify mileage

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Chinese researchers claim AI can spot criminal faces

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Neural network successfully identifies obscured faces

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Facebook algorithm identifies photographs when faces are obscured

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Facebook has tested, but does not use, location data to recommend Friends

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Facebook and Google link online ads to offline sales

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Big data surveillance turns on low-income communities

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US politicians share supporter data across campaigns

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Researchers find choice of apps correlates with demographics

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German consumer group complains that Samsung TVs harvest personally identifiable information

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"Shadowy" risk mitigation industry spreads use of secret databases

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Usage-based insurance brings close driver monitoring

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Met police officers wrongfully access and leak the identity of a protected witness

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Gap closes between secret intelligence and "open source" information

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Chinese government social media programme seeks to distract the public

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Gabon signs up to Microsoft's CityNext for capital Libreville

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Facial recognition systems display inherent bias

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Poor security raises dangers for Internet of Things

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Affective computing provides new frontier in user manipulation

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Personal data lives on after the sites that collected it are gone

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Chinese military authorities ban smartwatches and wearables on security grounds

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Nest cameras continue monitoring surroundings even when switched "off"

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Researchers develop viral attack that could paralyse a city's LED light bulbs

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MIT shows how wifi can be used to accurately track people and objects

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Predictive modelling "abuses and brutalises" New Zealand benefits recipients

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Researchers find ultrasound Internet of Things hacking risks

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AI-judged beauty contest picks disproportionate number of white winners

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NSA researches usefulness of internet-connected biomedical devices for foreign intelligence gathering

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Canadian military issues tender for pick-up truck hacker