In the wake of this year’s Supreme Court decision in Dobbs overruling Roe v. Wade, sheriffs and bounty hunters in anti-abortion states will try to investigate and punish abortion seekers based on their internet browsing, private messaging, and phone app location data. We can expect similar tactics...

MSG Entertainment, the owner of the arena and Radio City Music Hall, has put lawyers who represent people suing it on an “exclusion list” to keep them out of concerts and sporting events.

People who upload images of children that Google flags as potentially illegal will be able to provide more context to appeal bans.

The clock is a useful social tool, but it is also deeply political. It benefits some, marginalizes others and blinds us from a true understanding of our own bodies and the world around us.

Open source microblogging site has seen surge of interest since Musk took over Twitter.

So, it’s been quite a year for legacy, centralized social media — and all without any really big change to the laws that govern it (yet — the EU’s are coming into force shortly, but pos…

Friction is a design tool, when applied correctly it improves our experiences, decision satisfaction, and can protect us.

Modern institutions are rife with tech that disenfranchises, dehumanises, excludes and even bullies students and teachers. It’s high time for a rethink, says Andy Farnell

2022 was a big year for fighting tech-enabled abuse, from physical trackers to stalkerware. https://t.co/juoxOSgJpd— Eva (@evacide) December 27, 2022

"Contrary to what The New York Times has speculated, we are not at peak newsletter. We are just at peak newsletter via email delivery."

It turns out ChatGPT has a dark side: It can create malware – without being given any snippet of code. That means less-skilled criminals can learn to become a cyber-attacker.

Tesla’s CEO was long portrayed as a business genius. His incompetent rule of Twitter proves he’s really just a thirsty, right-wing dimwit.

Lensa.ai and other photo apps like it could put your personal biometric data at risk, experts say, and warn that once you give your data to those companies, you have no control over how the companies use it.

Buzzy products like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 will have to turn a profit eventually.

A growing number of people are experimenting with federated alternatives to social media like Mastodon, either by joining an “instance” hosted by someone else or creating their own instance by running the free, open-source software on a server they control. (See more about this movement and joining...

A recent incident at Radio City Music Hall involving the mother of a Girl Scout is shedding light on the growing controversy of facial recognition, as critics claim it is being used to target perceived enemies — in this case, by one of the most famous companies in the country.

An attorney whose firm is in litigation with MSG Entertainment was barred from attending a Radio City Rockettes’ show with her daughter and other Girl Scouts because the company’s facial recognition technology knew where she worked. NBC New York’s Sarah Wallace reports.

Within the Next Generation Internet Initiative, we have been working towards alternative futures for the internet to create a resilient, trustworthy and sustainableinternet. These alternate futures have one thing in common: they are based on technology commons: open standards, free and open source software and hardware, and open data.

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The Coral Project is an open source project to help publishers of all sizes build better communities around their journalism. We’re creating tools that help everyone to feel safe, respected, and heard.

Robot vacuum companies say your images are safe, but a sprawling global supply chain for data from our devices creates risk.

Microsoft is heading the corporate charge into inclusive design. But even the company admits it has a lot to learn.

What this article is about: The difference between Social Networking & Social Media What Social Media was supposed to be and what it bec...

Elon Musk's platform could learn a thing or two from its most popular alternative—like how to build a social platform people actually want to be on.

Elon Musk has used the same playbook at all of his companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Sadly for him, his model will cause Twitter to go down in flames.

In a recent article covering the FTX collapse, the New York Times described large language models (LLMs) as “an increasingly powerful breed…