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Covid Contact tracing apps are a complicated mess: what you need to know

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GPS tracking and COVID-19: A tech primer

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International Health Day during a pandemic: an opportunity to reflect

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Video: Is your vote for sale? Political advertisers think so

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Researchers scraped videos of transgender vloggers off YouTube without their knowledge to train facial recognition software

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Facebook expands advertising transparency

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Bluetooth tracking and COVID-19: A tech primer

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Extraordinary powers need extraordinary protections

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One Year On, what has Uganda’s Data Protection Law Changed?

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Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent Attention?

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Privacy protests lead Mattel to cancel child-focused AI smart hub

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Pregnancy persists on the internet despite miscarriage in real life

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Your Tesla is watching you—whether or not you’re watching the road

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Bricks-and-mortar retailers adapt online tracking techniques for the physical world

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Big data intelligence company builds advertising audiences from mobile tracking at Iowa caucuses

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Researchers test using smart card travel ticket data to find pickpockets

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Singapore enhances smart city programme with pervasive data collection

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Royal Parks covertly tracks visitors via mobile phone data

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Affective computing provides new frontier in user manipulation

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Nest cameras continue monitoring surroundings even when switched "off"

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Banks turn to smartphone metadata to assess lending risk

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Social media sites push back against police

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Governments adopt social media as tool for surveillance and propaganda

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Anti-Choice Groups Use Smartphone Surveillance to Target ‘Abortion-Minded Women’ During Clinic Visits

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MIT device uses wireless signals to identify emotions

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How China uses mass surveillance and big data to deal with social unrest

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Baidu aggregates map search data to predict crowd formation

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Fighting data-exploitative business models

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The fight for the global standard in data protection law

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Polar social site reveals work and home locations of military personnel