Tag: privacy

• Federated Analytics: Collaborative Data Science without Data Collection

  May 30, 2020

  Federated learning, introduced in 2017, enables developers to train machine learning (ML) models across many devices without centralized data collection, ensuring that only the user has a copy of their… more ›

• Here’s the File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too

  March 3, 2020

  After a recent, extensive, and rather withering bout of bad press, the facial recognition company Clearview AI has changed its homepage, which now touts all the things it says its… more ›

• Spotify is a Prison for Podcasts

  January 11, 2020

  I have been a happy customer of Spotify for several years now, after flirting back and forth with Apple Music, Google Play Music and the late Rdio for several years… more ›

• Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy

  December 22, 2019

  Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile… more ›

• The Ringification of Suburban Life

  September 29, 2019

  Across the US, consumers are canvassing their communities with a new type of device that’s changing civic life. Camera-equipped doorbells and other home surveillance devices, made by companies like Ring,… more ›

• This Company Built a Private Surveillance Network. We Tracked Someone With It

  September 22, 2019

  In just a few taps and clicks, the tool showed where a car had been seen throughout the U.S. A private investigator source had access to a powerful system used… more ›

• Essay: The street as platform

  September 3, 2019

  I was recently asked to comment on ‘the street of the future’; a response for a quango responsible for the built environment and a government department responsible for transport, roads… more ›

• (Can’t) Picture This 2

  July 23, 2019

  Internet platform companies operating in China are required by law to control content on their platforms or face penalties, under the expectation that companies will invest in the technology and… more ›

• I found your data. It’s for sale.

  July 20, 2019

  I’ve watched you check in for a flight and seen your doctor refilling a prescription. I’ve peeked inside corporate networks at reports on faulty rockets. If I wanted, I could’ve… more ›

• More information about our processes to safeguard speech data

  July 12, 2019

  We’re focused on building products that work for everyone, and as part of this, we invest significant resources to ensure that our speech technology works for a wide variety of… more ›