Millions of people uploaded photos to the Ever app. Then the company used them to develop facial recognition tools.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/millions-people-uploaded-photos-ever-app-then-company-used-them-n1003371

used to train the company’s facial recognition system, and that Ever then offers to sell that technology to private companies, law enforcement and the military.

China: How Mass Surveillance Works in Xinjiang - Human Rights Watch

https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/interactive/2019/05/02/china-how-mass-surveillance-works-xinjiang

Reverse Engineering’ Police App Reveals Profiling and Monitoring Strategies

One Month, 500,000 Face Scans: How China Is Using A.I. to Profile a Minority - NYTimes

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveillance-artificial-intelligence-racial-profiling.html

It is the first known example of a government intentionally using artificial intelligence for racial profiling, experts said.

potentially ushering in a new era of automated racism.

Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-location-tracking-police.html

The tech giant records people’s locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, running the risk of snaring the innocent.

Does Google meet its users’ expectations around consumer privacy? This news industry research says no » Nieman Journalism Lab

https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/04/does-google-meet-its-users-expectations-around-consumer-privacy-this-news-industry-research-says-no/

The results of the study are consistent with our Facebook study: People don’t want surveillance advertising.

How China Turned a City Into a Prison - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/04/world/asia/xinjiang-china-surveillance-prison.html

W3C approves WebAuthn as the web standard for password-free logins

https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/04/w3c-approves-webauthn-as-the-web-standard-for-password-free-logins/

The specification lets users log into online accounts using biometrics, mobile devices, and/or FIDO security keys.

China Uses DNA to Track Its People, With the Help of American Expertise - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/business/china-xinjiang-uighur-dna-thermo-fisher.html

Inside the UAE’s secret hacking team of U.S. mercenaries - Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-spying-raven-specialreport/special-report-inside-the-uaes-secret-hacking-team-of-u-s-mercenaries-idUSKCN1PO19O

how former U.S. government hackers have employed state-of-the-art cyber-espionage tools on behalf of a foreign intelligence service that spies on human rights activists, journalists and political rivals.

Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them - TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/

Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo app that Apple banned in June