A look back at The Intercept’s must-read technology stories from 2019. Amazon’s Home Surveillance Chief Declared War on “Dirtbag Criminals” as Company Got Closer to Police Illustration: Erik Blad for The Intercept Video and internal emails show how Amazon’s Ring has… Read More ›
The irony of the ethical scandal enveloping Joichi Ito, the former director of the MIT Media Lab, is that he used to lead academic initiatives on ethics. After the revelation of his financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier charged… Read More ›
President Donald Trump’s reelection effort has retained the services of a technology company that specializes in the mass collection of smartphone location data, which can be used to track voters for political targeting purposes. Phunware, an Austin, Texas-based firm, announced the… Read More ›
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook, arrives for a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 23, 2019. Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images Dear Mark Zuckerberg, What happened to you? Back in December… Read More ›
A filmmaker working on a documentary that’s critical of U.S. policies. A writer who operates a pseudonymous Twitter account to evade an authoritarian regime in their home country. An activist who uses Facebook to organize protests at the U.S.-Mexico border…. Read More ›
Earlier this year, a falling object struck a worker’s head at an Amazon fulfillment center in Robbinsville, New Jersey. The worker visited Amcare, the company’s on-site medical unit, and told the emergency medical technicians on staff there that they had… Read More ›
Ring, Amazon’s crimefighting surveillance camera division, has crafted plans to use facial recognition software and its ever-expanding network of home security cameras to create AI-enabled neighborhood “watch lists,” according to internal documents reviewed by The Intercept. The planning materials envision… Read More ›
People opposed to Amazon’s plan to locate a headquarters in New York City hold a protest in Court House Square on Nov. 26, 2018 in the Long Island City neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. Photo: Stephanie… Read More ›
Amid high-profile Supreme Court rulings like the lifeline given to the practice of gerrymandering, the endorsement of Trump’s Muslim travel ban, the gutting of public sector unions, and the defense of bakers who don’t want to serve gay people, the case of… Read More ›
In the face of the Trump administration’s neglect and indifference toward the reunification of the thousands of immigrant families it has forcibly separated, some lawmakers, activists, and celebrities have called for the use of DNA testing, along with other biometrics,… Read More ›