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'The Goal Is to Automate ­s': Welcome to the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
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'The Goal Is to Automate ­s': Welcome to the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

We're living through the most profound transformation in our information environment since Johannes Gutenberg's invention of printing in circa 1439.

Facebook Ad Feature Claims to Predict ­ser's Future Behaviour
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Facebook Ad Feature Claims to Predict ­ser's Future Behaviour

Facebook has been criticised for hiding an advertising product that claims to be able to predict users' future behaviours and target messages at them in an attempt...

Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move
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Big Brother Isn't Just Watching: Workplace Surveillance Can Track Your Every Move

How can an employer make sure its remote workers aren't slacking off? In the case of talent management company Crossover, the answer is to take photos of them every...

End of the Checkout Line: The Looming Crisis For American Cashiers
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End of the Checkout Line: The Looming Crisis For American Cashiers

The day before a fully automated grocery store opened its doors in 1939, the inventor Clarence Saunders took out a full page advertisement in the Memphis Press-Scimitar...

Apple Removes New York Times App in China 
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Apple Removes New York Times App in China 

Apple has removed the New York Times app from its store in China after a government request, in an example of how far the company will go to please the authorities...

Why Data Is the New Coal
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Why Data Is the New Coal

"Is data the new oil?" asked proponents of big data back in 2012 in Forbes magazine. By 2016, and the rise of big data's turbo-powered cousin deep learning, westated Fortune...

Bounty Hunters Are Legally Hacking Apple and the Pentagon–for Big Money
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Bounty Hunters Are Legally Hacking Apple and the Pentagon–for Big Money

Nathaniel Wakelam became a bounty hunter when he was 18.

­se of Police Robot to Kill Dallas Shooting Suspect Believed to Be First in ­S History
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­se of Police Robot to Kill Dallas Shooting Suspect Believed to Be First in ­S History

For what experts are calling the first time in history, US police have used a robot in a show of lethal force.

Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'could Leave Half of World ­nemployed'
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Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'could Leave Half of World ­nemployed'

Machines could put more than half the world's population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial...

British Army Creates Team of Facebook Warriors
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British Army Creates Team of Facebook Warriors

The British army is creating a special force of Facebook warriors, skilled in psychological operations and use of social media to engage in unconventional warfare...

Behind the Scenes of Ibm's Wimbledon Data Bunker
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Behind the Scenes of Ibm's Wimbledon Data Bunker

Beyond the grass courts, tennis whites and jugs of Pimms, there's a whole flurry of activity going on in a dimly lit underground bunker.

Secrets, Lies and Snowden's Email: Why I Was Forced to Shut Down Lavabit
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Secrets, Lies and Snowden's Email: Why I Was Forced to Shut Down Lavabit

My legal saga started last summer with a knock at the door, behind which stood two federal agents ready to to serve me with a court order requiring the installation...

Trouble with Russia, Trouble with the Law: Inside Europe's Digital Crime Unit
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Trouble with Russia, Trouble with the Law: Inside Europe's Digital Crime Unit

Four black brick towers search upwards to an empty grey sky.

Meet the Seven People Who Hold the Keys to Worldwide Internet Security
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Meet the Seven People Who Hold the Keys to Worldwide Internet Security

In a nondescript industrial estate in El Segundo, a boxy suburb in south-west Los Angeles just a mile or two from LAX international airport, 20 people wait in a...

Apple Buys Indoor Mapping Company Wifislam
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Apple Buys Indoor Mapping Company Wifislam

Apple has bought WifiSLAM, a company providing indoor mobile location services, which lets people figure out their location inside a building using the strength...

Drones on Display: Security Firms Go Hi-Tech in Rush to Seal the Border
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Drones on Display: Security Firms Go Hi-Tech in Rush to Seal the Border

From a distance, it looked like Wyatt Nease was using a handset to operate a remote control car.

Software that Tracks People on Social Media Created By Defence Firm
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Software that Tracks People on Social Media Created By Defence Firm

A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social...

­.S. Postal Service Pushes the Digital Envelope in Battle for Its Future
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­.S. Postal Service Pushes the Digital Envelope in Battle for Its Future

Paul Vogel is, in his own words, trying to bring the U.S. Postal Service "from the today world into the tomorrow world."

Oscars Vote Vulnerable to Cyber Attack ­nder New Online System, Experts Warn
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Oscars Vote Vulnerable to Cyber Attack ­nder New Online System, Experts Warn

Academy to switch to electronic ballots in 2013 — but move from paper voting does not eliminate prospect of foul play.

Gchq Aims to Recruit Computer Hackers with Code-Cracking Web Site
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Gchq Aims to Recruit Computer Hackers with Code-Cracking Web Site

Government intelligence service targets "self-taught" hackers with cryptic Web site that features no obvious branding.
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