June 15, 2020 From Mailbox to Ballot Box With the US general election just over 20 weeks away and no vaccine in sight for the coronavirus, it’s time to think very seriously…
March 2, 2020 Hacked: A Clearer View of Clearview A few weeks ago, the New York Times published a bombshell article about a small startup called Clearview AI who was using a massive…
January 20, 2020 Clearview Knows Who You Are A small company has amassed over 3 billion online photos from social media and other public sources, creating perhaps the largest facial database in…
September 30, 2019 Not Just a Face in the Crowd (Part 2) So what happens when your face print (or any biometric info) is stolen from a server? You can’t change your face like you can…
September 23, 2019 Not Just a Face in the Crowd (Part 1) Use of facial recognition technology (FRT) is exploding around the globe. While touted as a convenience for checking in for a flight or crossing…
May 19, 2019 Google Knows What You Buy It shouldn’t surprise you to learn that Google can read your Gmail. You may even realize that Google is scanning your emails for things…
May 12, 2019 Time to Break Up Facebook Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes makes a heartfelt and cogent argument for breaking up the world’s dominant social media company, Facebook. The litmus test for…
October 29, 2018 Marketers Are Tracking You On and Off the Web We all know how marketers are tracking our every move on the world wide web. But now they’re starting to track you in the…
