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  • BBC News
  • 2019
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The Google city that has angered Toronto

A Google affiliated urban development project in Toronto has raised concerns about the data privacy of its citizens. Specifically, the collection of large amounts of data within this “smart city” and the potential private direction of public services like transportation cause citizen pushback.

  • BBC News
  • 2019
  • 5 min
  • Science Alert
  • 2019
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Newly Released Amazon Patent Shows Just How Much Creepier Alexa Can Get

A newly revealed patent application filed by Amazon raises privacy concerns over an upgrade to the virtual assistant Alexa, in which the system records everything a users says in 10-30 second bits to look out for a command.

  • Science Alert
  • 2019
  • 7 min
  • The New York Times
  • 2019
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ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Database

ICE, along with other law enforcement agencies, mined state driver’s license databases using facial recognition tech to track down undocumented immigrants and prosecute more cases.

  • The New York Times
  • 2019
  • 7 min
  • The Washington Post
  • 2013
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Obama has aggressive Internet strategy to woo supporters

Description of how targeted ads worked in the Obama re-election campaign, and why they were used. Specifically, the combination of the campaign buying advertising space in Google and ad companies tracking user activity across the web led to a robust targeted advertising campaign unlike anything seen before it.

  • The Washington Post
  • 2013
  • 5 min
  • ARS Technica
  • 2019
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Google workers listen to your “OK Google” queries– one of them leaked recordings

Google records some audio and has language experts review it to improve language skills of the technology. However, this may raise privacy concerns as sometimes they record by accident when users aren’t trying to use the Google Assistant.

  • ARS Technica
  • 2019
  • 7 min
  • n/a
  • 2018
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Stealing Ur Feelings

Exploration of how, through facial and emotion recognition, digital artifacts make decisions on what we may want or need, and what they are able to do with this data.

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  • 2018
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