Long-form Journalism Inside the Video Surveillance Program IBM Built for Philippine Strongman Rodrigo DuterteThe Intercept - George Joseph Jaypee Larosa was standing in front of an internet cafe in Davao City, a metropolitan hub on the Philippine island of Mindanao, when three men in …
Defense Tech Startup Founded by Trump’s Most Prominent Silicon Valley Supporters Wins Secretive Military AI ContractThe Intercept - Lee Fang A startup founded by a young and outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump is among the latest tech companies to quietly win a contract with the …
Elizabeth Warren’s Big Tech Beatdown Will Spark a Vital and Unprecedented DebateThe Intercept - Sam Biddle It’s imperfect, it’s vague in parts, and it will face a conflagration of opposition from the tech lobbying freight train and congressional …
Should We Trust Artificial Intelligence Regulation by Congress If Facebook Supports It?The Intercept - Sam Biddle Try to imagine for a moment a declaration from Congress to the effect that safeguarding the environment is important, that the effects of pollution …
Mark Zuckerberg Is Trying to Play You — AgainThe Intercept - Sam Biddle If you click enough times through the website of Saudi Aramco, the largest oil producer in the world, you’ll reach a quiet section called “Addressing …
Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work On Censored China SearchThe Intercept - Ryan Gallagher Google employees have carried out their own investigation into the company’s plan to launch a censored search engine for China and say they are …
Trump and Brexit Proved This Book Prophetic — What Calamity Will Befall Us Next?The Intercept - Murtaza Hussain Across the world, the reputation of elites and their institutions is in free fall. A flood of online information has given the public unprecedented …
Google Hedges on Promise to End Controversial Involvement in Military Drone ContractThe Intercept - Lee Fang Following months of protests from its employees, Google announced last summer that it would not renew its contract with the military on Project …
Play button Naomi Klein and Shoshana Zuboff on the Rise of Surveillance CapitalismThe Intercept Join Intercept senior correspondent Naomi Klein and Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff, author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: …
Amazon Pullout Shows What Anti-Capitalist Organizing and Leftist Politicians Can DoThe Intercept - Natasha Lennard When Amazon, the monopsonistic retailer and ICE collaborator, announced last November that it would open its “second headquarters” in New York City, …
Amazon’s Home Surveillance Chief Declared War on “Dirtbag Criminals” as Company Got Closer to PoliceThe Intercept - Sam Biddle On March 17, 2016, Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff emailed out a company-wide declaration of war. The message, under the subject line “Going to war,” made …
Jeff Bezos Protests the Invasion of His Privacy, as Amazon Builds a Sprawling Surveillance State for Everyone ElseThe Intercept - Glenn Greenwald The National Enquirer has engaged in behavior so lowly and unscrupulous that it created a seemingly impossible storyline: the world’s richest …
Google Hired Gig Economy Workers to Improve Artificial Intelligence in Controversial Drone-Targeting ProjectThe Intercept - Lee Fang Millions of gig economy workers around the world now earn a living on so-called crowd worker websites — work that falls under the umbrella of …
“A Fundamentally Illegitimate Choice”: Shoshana Zuboff on the Age of Surveillance CapitalismThe Intercept - Sam Biddle Shoshana Zuboff’s “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” is already drawing comparisons to seminal socioeconomic investigations like Rachel Carson’s …
New Site Exposes How Apple Censors Apps in ChinaThe Intercept - Ryan Gallagher A new website exposes the extent to which Apple cooperates with Chinese government internet censorship, blocking access to Western news sources, …
Google’s Sidewalk Labs Plans to Package and Sell Location Data on Millions of CellphonesThe Intercept - Ava Kofman Most of the data collected by urban planners is messy, complex, and difficult to represent. It looks nothing like the smooth graphs and clean charts …
Everybody Does It: The Messy Truth About Infiltrating Computer Supply ChainsThe Intercept - Micah LeeHenrik Moltke In October, Bloomberg Businessweek published an alarming story: Operatives working for China’s People’s Liberation Army had secretly implanted …
Google Faces Renewed Protests and Criticism Over China Search ProjectThe Intercept - Ryan Gallagher Google is facing a new campaign of global protests over its plan to launch a censored version of its search engine in China. On Friday, a coalition of …
For Owners of Amazon’s Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been Watching TooThe Intercept - Sam Biddle The “smart home” of the 21st century isn’t just supposed to be a monument to convenience, we’re told, but also to protection, a Tony Stark-like …
Silicon Noir and the End of Techno-Optimism: The Intercept’s 2018 Tech CoverageThe Intercept This will likely go down as the year in which technology, once envisioned as an empowering and equalizing force, finally went headlong down the path …
Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Internal ConfrontationThe Intercept - Ryan Gallagher Google has been forced to shut down a data analysis system it was using to develop a censored search engine for China after members of the company’s …
Google CEO Hammered by Members of Congress on China Censorship PlanThe Intercept - Ryan Gallagher Google CEO Sundar Pichai came under fire from lawmakers on Tuesday over the company’s secretive plan to launch a censored search engine in …
Rights Groups Turn Up Pressure on Google Over China Censorship Ahead of Congressional HearingThe Intercept - Ryan Gallagher Google is facing a renewed wave of criticism from human rights groups over its controversial plan to launch a censored search engine in China. A …
Artificial Intelligence Experts Issue Urgent Warning Against Facial Scanning With a “Dangerous History”The Intercept - Sam Biddle Facial recognition has quickly shifted from techno-novelty to fact of life for many, with millions around the world at least willing to put up with …
Here’s Facebook’s Former “Privacy Sherpa” Discussing How to Harm Your Facebook PrivacyThe Intercept - Sam Biddle In 2015, rising star, Stanford University graduate, winner of the 13th season of “Survivor,” and Facebook executive Yul Kwon was profiled by the news …
Imprisoned Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Bumped a Guard With a Door — and Got Thrown in Solitary ConfinementThe Intercept - Micah Lee Last month, a famed hacker who has been serving a 10-year prison sentence since 2012 was accused by a guard at a federal detention center of “minor …
Homeland Security Will Let Computers Predict Who Might Be a Terrorist on Your Plane — Just Don’t Ask How It WorksThe Intercept - Sam Biddle You’re rarely allowed to know exactly what’s keeping you safe. When you fly, you’re subject to secret rules, secret watchlists, hidden cameras, and …
I Quit Google Over Its Censored Chinese Search Engine. The Company Needs to Clarify Its Position on Human Rights.The Intercept - Jack Poulson John Hennessy, the chair of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., was recently asked whether Google providing a search engine in China that …
Google Shut Out Privacy and Security Teams From Secret China ProjectThe Intercept - Ryan Gallagher The secrecy surrounding the work was unheard of at Google. It was not unusual for planned new products to be closely guarded ahead of launch. But …
