The Smile Mirror features a built-in camera and facial recognition technology that only shows your reflection if you smile.

The planned hearing comes as the Senate Intelligence Committee has increased its scrutiny of social media and search sites, following Facebook's disclosure that a Russian troll farm purchased $100,000

The many ways design decisions treat people unequally

Political operatives used fake news, Big Data and Facebook to suppress the vote and rile up racists in 2016. It's going to be even uglier next time around.

From 'Mad Men' to 'Math Men'. What does Big Data mean for the future of marketing?

In March of last year, Fusion published an article detailing the ways in which Nextdoor, a social network for neighbors, had become a home for racial profiling. In the "Crime and Safety" forum of many Nextdoor communities, users were reporting people as "suspicious" seemingly based primarily on the color of their skin.

Facebook has been hit with a €1.

Google has started letting people report adverts that know “too much” about them. The company delivers personalised display ads that are targeted at individual users, based on a number of factors.

Social networks train us to focus on images and emotions, sapping the quest for knowledge.

Former Facebook president Sean Parker hits the company for its effect on society: "God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains" pic.twitter.com/8GI0DykJGB— Axios (@axios) November 9, 2017

The algorithms Facebook and other tech companies use to boost engagement – and increase profits – have led to spectacular failures of sensitivity and worse…

In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know. You meet someone and say, “I’m from Sarasota,” and they say, “Oh, I have a grandparent in Sarasota,” and they tell you where they live and their name, and you may or may not recognize them.

You probably shouldn't be surprised.

Machine learning is vulnerable to trickery–and scientists are racing to understand why. “If we can do this, so can the bad guys,” says one researcher.

A new Facebook tool deploys facial-recognition to identify users in photos, even when they're not tagged.

By age 2, 92% of American children have an online footprint. What does that do to their psyches?

Office culture is only part of the problem.

The thousands of Wells Fargo low-wage employees who defrauded customers likely knew how it felt to face unfair overdraft fees or a deteriorating credit rating. So why did they do it?

The company, whose CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned, masterminded the dark arts of manipulative UX.

New research by Global Voices tech and digital rights experts in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Pakistan and the Philippines exposes the ups and downs of Facebook's "Free Basics" app.

Designlab is a part-time, online course that helps you improve your UI/UX design skills through 1-on-1 mentorship from an expert designer.

Fitness and health tracking devices are designed to get us to exercise more. But these digital fitness and health tracking devices can have the opposite effect, according to a study of school children, in which researcher Mikael Quennerstedt participated. The pupils felt monitored and had feelings of inadequacy.

Twitter has a history of cooperating with Israeli authorities.

A company using technology in recycling bins to track smartphones has been asked to stop by the City of London Corporation.

Thomson ReutersGoogle is watching you while you shop in stores.Google has long tracked shoppers' activity online. Now it's stepping up its surveillance and

News that Facebook shared teens’ details with advertisers throws focus on firm’s ability to mine the data of its 2 billion users – and raises serious ethical questions

After ProPublica revealed last year that Facebook advertisers could target housing ads to whites only, the company announced it had built a system to spot and reject discriminatory ads. We retested and found major omissions.

Cameras built into Dutch advertisement billboards at NS stations in the Netherlands have been recording the behaviour of passers-by.