The New York TimesU.S. Supreme Court I’m a Judge. Here’s How Surveillance Is Challenging Our Legal System.The New York Times - By JAMES ORENSTEINOn most weekdays in the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, prosecutors will ask the magistrate judge on duty to issue lots of sealed orders authorizing them to use all sorts of investigative technologies
The New York TimesTechnology Policy We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster.The New York Times The average policy took 18 minutes to read and required a college-level reading ability.
The New York TimesGEDmatch Want to See My Genes? Get a WarrantThe New York Times - By ELIZABETH JOHSomeone broke into a church in Centerville, Utah, last November and attacked the organist who was practicing there. In March, after a conventional investigation came up empty, a police detective turned
The New York TimesCodes Hacking My Mother’s Phone to Save Her MemoriesThe New York Times - By LESLIE BERLINSeveral days after my mother died in a car accident, my two sisters and I sat together in her apartment, stunned and overwhelmed. High on our horrible to-do list — along with retrieving her smashed vehicle
The New York TimesPolaroid Photography How Facial Recognition Makes You SaferThe New York Times - By JAMES O'NEILLIn 1983, when I was sworn in as a police officer, many of the routine tasks of the trade would have seemed more familiar to a cop from my grandfather’s day than to a new police academy graduate today.
The New York TimesSchool Districts Spying on Children Won’t Keep Them SafeThe New York Times - By JIM SHULTZLOCKPORT, N.Y. — I have a 16-year-old daughter, and like every parent in the United States today, I worry about her safety when she’s in school. But here in Western New York’s Lockport City School District,
The New York Times Opinion | The Problem With ‘Sharenting’The New York Times - By ANYA KAMENETZParents this year were introduced to a goblin for the digital era: Momo, a bird-woman with an eerie grin who commanded the children who watched her videos on YouTube to harm themselves. The story turned
The New York TimesGoogle Earth A Brief History of How Your Privacy Was StolenThe New York Times - By ROGER MCNAMEEIn 1982, when I began my career as a technology investor, privacy was not a concern. The denizens of Silicon Valley shared a goal: to improve the lives of the people who used technology. An idealized of
The New York TimesLiterature Facebook Usurped Our Privacy. Here's How To Get it Back.The New York Times - By DINA SRINIVASANAs Facebook has generated scandal after scandal in recent years, critics have started to wonder how we might use antitrust laws to rein in the company’s power. But many of the most pressing concerns about
The New York TimesSarah Jeong The Internet Security Apocalypse You Probably MissedThe New York Times - By SARAH JEONG and CHARLIE WARZELThis article is part of a limited-run newsletter. You can sign up here. Instead of my usual monologue, this week I’ve invited my colleague, the editorial writer Sarah Jeong, to have a conversation about
The New York TimesFacebook Taming the Apex Predators of TechThe New York Times - By KARA SWISHERIn a tech galaxy that now seems far, far away, everyone was terrified of Bill Gates. He was the Apex Predator of Tech. You wanted to make software? Microsoft would crush you. You wanted to start an online
The New York TimesTechnology Policy You’re Not Alone When You’re on GoogleThe New York Times - By JENNIFER SENIORAt first blush, it seems safe to say that most of us harbor inconsistent — if not neurotically contradictory — notions about our personal privacy. We claim to treasure it, yet want badly to be known and
The New York TimesNevada Senate A Chip in My Hand Unlocks My House. Why Does That Scare People?The New York Times - By ZOLTAN ISTVANOver the past few decades, microchip implant technology has moved from science fiction to reality; today hundreds of thousands of people around the world have chips or electronic transmitters inside them.
The New York Times San Francisco Is Right: Facial Recognition Must Be Put On HoldThe New York Times - By FARHAD MANJOOWhat are we going to do about all the cameras? The question keeps me up at night, in something like terror. Cameras are the defining technological advance of our age. They are the keys to our smartphones,
The New York TimesTechnology Policy Your Car Knows When You Gain WeightThe New York Times - By BILL HANVEYCars produced today are essentially smartphones with wheels. For drivers, this has meant many new features: automatic braking, turn-by-turn directions, infotainment. But for all the things we’re getting
The New York TimesLong-form Journalism It’s Time to Break Up FacebookThe New York Times - By CHRIS HUGHESThe last time I saw Mark Zuckerberg was in the summer of 2017, several months before the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke. We met at Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., office and drove to his house, in a
The New York TimesPrivacy Google’s Sundar Pichai: Privacy Should Not Be a Luxury GoodThe New York Times - By SUNDAR PICHAIMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google products are designed to be helpful. They take the friction out of daily life (for example, by showing you the fastest route home at the end of a long day) and give you time
The New York TimesTechnology Policy The Legislation That Targets the Racist Impacts of TechThe New York Times - By MARGOT E. KAMINSKI and ANDREW D. SELBSTIn the wake of recent revelations about biased algorithms, congressional Democrats have proposed a bill that would require large companies to determine whether the algorithms they’re using result in discrimination,
The New York TimesWindows Defender 7 Simple Ways to Protect Your Digital PrivacyThe New York Times - By THORIN KLOSOWSKIWhat little privacy people don’t give away, companies tend to take. Given this unfortunate reality, to get complete privacy you’d need to install a labyrinthine series of software tools that make the slow
The New York Times Will China Export its Illiberal Innovation?The New York Times Illiberal innovations created for China’s vast surveilled and censored domestic market are increasingly popular overseas.
The New York TimesTechnology Policy Would You Let the Police Search Your Phone?The New York Times - By ROSEANNA SOMMERS and VANESSA K. BOHNSLaw enforcement officers on the doorstep threatening to “come back with a warrant” is a cliché of police procedural dramas. Things are much less dramatic in real life: The officers ask if they can take
The New York Times These Ads Think They Know YouThe New York Times We bought some ad space and targeted readers using the invisible technology of the Internet.
The New York TimesFourth Amendment Losing Our Fourth Amendment Data ProtectionThe New York Times - By JOSEPHINE WOLFFAt any given moment, I’m usually carrying at least three different devices that track my location: a phone, a laptop and a Garmin watch. I carry these by choice, of course, and I’m well aware that they
The New York TimesTechnology Policy Poor People’s Privacy Can’t Be an AfterthoughtThe New York Times - By MARY MADDENOne of the tragic ironies of the digital age is this: Despite the fact that low-income Americans have experienced a long history of disproportionate surveillance, their unique privacy and security concerns
The New York TimesThe Future Tech Needs More Conscientious ObjectorsThe New York Times - By JACK POULSON“We can forgive your politics and focus on your technical contributions as long as you don’t do something unforgivable, like speaking to the press.” This was the parting advice given to me during my exit
The New York TimesTechnology Policy Why You Can No Longer Get Lost in the CrowdThe New York Times - By WOODROW HARTZOG and EVAN SELINGERWe are constantly exposed in public. Yet most of our actions will fade into obscurity. Do you, for example, remember the faces of strangers who stood in line with you the last time you bought medicine
The New York Times We Built a (Legal) Facial Recognition Machine for $60The New York Times What we found shows the technology’s promise — and perils.
The New York TimesChina The Only Answer Is Less InternetThe New York Times - By ROSS DOUTHATIn our age of digital connection and constantly online life, you might say that two political regimes are evolving, one Chinese and one Western, which offer two kinds of relationships between the privacy
The New York TimesChristopher Lee The Infinite ScrollThe New York Times - By CHRISTOPHER LEE and APARNA NANCHERLA“Phoning it in” means to do something with very little effort or enthusiasm. The idiom seems oddly prescient now, given that it dates back to a time before the internet. (If you’re curious, further details
