Big Data May Not Know Your Name. But It Knows Everything Else
Data brokers claim that deidentified data on millions of Americans is risk-free. Lawmakers need to know that “anonymity” is an abstraction.
In Russia, Apple and Google Staff Get Muscled Up By the State
When US tech companies opened offices there, it was supposed to mitigate oppression. Instead those workers are now vulnerable to threats from local authorities.
In Russia, Apple and Google Staff Get Muscled Up By the State
When US tech companies opened offices there, it was supposed to mitigate oppression. Instead those workers are now vulnerable to threats from local authorities.
Data Brokers Know Where You Are—and Want to Sell That Intel
These firms could track whether you’ve visited your therapist’s office or your ex’s house. And without regulation, they’re a threat to democracy.
Putin Is Crushing Biden’s Room to Negotiate on Ransomware
A new cybercrime treaty Russia presented to the UN signals once again that the regime won’t help clamp down on attacks.
Weak US Privacy Law Hurts America’s Global Standing
Unrestrained data collection and selling doesn’t just harm citizens at home. It’s terrible foreign policy.
Real Diplomacy Is a Start, but the US Needs to Make Putin Pay
Biden’s summit with Putin marked a quantum leap forward, but there’s still little standing in the way from Russia interfering in future US elections.
Dumbed Down AI Rhetoric Harms Everyone
By ignorance or malice, policymakers use sweeping platitudes to regulate artificial intelligence, which may persecute citizens more than protect them.
Data Brokers Are a Threat to Democracy
Unless the federal government steps up, the unchecked middlemen of surveillance capitalism will continue to harm our civil rights and national security.