How GM tricked millions of US drivers into being spied on (including me) ~transport Article 2364 words 56 votes
Automakers are sharing consumers’ driving behavior with insurance companies ~transport Article 2533 words 58 votes
A dad took photos of his naked toddler for the doctor. Google flagged him as a criminal. ~tech google Article 2949 words 14 votes
Accused of cheating by an algorithm, and a Professor she had never met. An unsettling glimpse at the digitization of education. ~tech amazon.rekognition Article 1915 words, published May 27 2022 17 votes
Our digital pasts weren’t supposed to be weaponized like this ~tech social media internet privacy Article 1251 words 17 votes
Activists build facial recognition to ID cops who hide their badges ~tech Article 1542 words 15 votes
I got access to my secret consumer score. Now you can get yours, too. ~finance Article 1631 words 14 votes
How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell ~tech Article 2618 words, published Apr 10 2016 8 votes
Goodbye Big Five: Kashmir Hill tried to block each of Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from her life for a week. To end the experiment, she tried to block all five at once. ~tech privacy amazon facebook google microsoft apple Article 4949 words 19 votes
I cut Google out of my life. It screwed up everything ~tech google privacy Article 2486 words 38 votes
I tried to block Amazon from my life. It was impossible ~tech amazon.web services Article 2850 words 13 votes
How cartographers for the US Military inadvertently created a house of horrors in South Africa ~design Article 5229 words, published Jan 9 2019 15 votes