A new study suggests companies are employing emotion-sensing facial recognition technology that is based on flawed science.

Emotion recognition is a hot new area, with numerous companies peddling products that claim to be able to read people’s internal emotional states, and AI researchers looking to improve computers’ ability to do so. This is done through voice analysis, body language analysis, gait analysis, eye tracking, and remote measurement of physiological signs like pulse and breathing rates. Most of all, though, it’s done through analysis of facial expressions.A new study, however, strongly suggests that these products are built on a bed of intellectual quicksand.The key question is whether human emotio...

When 21-year-old Brandon Andrew Clark posted a series of graphic images on Sunday of the slain corpse of 17-year-old Bianca Devins to Instagram and Discord, users immediately began spreading the gory pictures online, often alongside brutal, misogynist commentary. Some said the victim, an ‘e-girl’ who was popular on 4Chan, deserved it, and others called for even more violence against women. Clark, who appears to have live-posted the murder itself on Instagram—a series of posts reportedly showed the body, the road near the crime scene, and an act of bloody self-harm—took the time to change hi...

Startups are importing and imposing AI systems founded on individualistic and capitalist drives

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FaceApp has sparked fresh concerns for its ambiguous terms and conditions that grant the company a "perpetual" license to use uploaded photos for commercial purposes.

Apple has been accused of violating its own App Store guidelines within the new Apple News app.

The world is designed against the elderly, writes Don Norman, 83-year-old author of the industry bible Design of Everyday Things and a former Apple VP.

Amazon.com Inc has a promotion for U.S. shoppers on Prime Day, the 48-hour marketing blitz that started Monday: Earn $10 of credit if you let Amazon track the websites you visit.

‘Sight’ rocked the internet in 2012. Now its creators are back for a sequel.

The Federal Trade Commission voted this week to approve a roughly $5 billion settlement with Facebook over a long-running probe into the tech giant’s privacy missteps, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with Facebook over the company's 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal.

We've seen every episode of 'Black Mirror' and have a feeling this won't end well.

There’s a compelling argument that by installing stalkerware on their kids’ phones, parents are exposing the kids to more hazards—misuse of data, breaches, hackers, predators, & any companies looking to profit from their data—than they are protecting them from.— One Ring (doorbell) to surveil them all... (@hypervisible) July 12, 2019

Parents can use Life360 to track their teen’s location in real time. The company can use that data to sell car insurance.

A crackdown on how government agencies can use the technology needs to consider how companies do, too.

Facebook has outlined how it intends to clean up its content, making much of the fact that it has expunged 3.3 billion fake profiles in the last six months.

Google contractors are listening to conversations recorded by Google Assistant in Belgium and the Netherlands. Several recording were also triggered..

Facebook says its Libra payment platform is a social impact project that promises benefits to the poor and unbanked. Others say it’s an…

The voice-assisted device will give official NHS advice, but critics fear a "data protection disaster".

ICO imposes fine after personal data of 339 million guests was stolen by hackers

Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom Client allows any malicious website to enable your camera without your permission. The flaw potentially…

British Airways is facing a record fine of £138 million, after its systems were breached by hackers and the personal and payment card information of around 500,000 customers were stolen.

A deepfake video of Mark Zuckerberg gleefully talking about the data he “stole” puts Facebook’s sanctimonious approach to moderation to the test.

Six experts offer a variety of perspectives on the subject of data ethics.

Can privacy survive?

To prove a point about common location-sharing apps, I asked my wife to use them to spy on me.

Ninety years ago, René Magritte painted a pipe. I’m sure you’ve seen the work; it’s among his most famous. Written under the rendering of the object are the words Ceci n’est pas une pipe — “This is…

At the Adobe 99U conference there was an on-stage conversation between author Courtney E. Martin and Tim Brown, CEO of design firm IDEO. During the interview they touched upon the topic of ethics. Author and design consultant Kim Goodwin reacted to the exchange, calling out Brown’s remarks as “a disturbing statement”. I agree, and I …

Sponsored ads on Amazon’s baby registries are leading the family and friends of new parents to make purchases of unwanted gifts.