Truly revolutionary political transformations are naturally of great interest to historians, and the French Revolution at the end of the 18th century is widely...Ars Technica From ACM News | January 9, 2019
On Tuesday morning, the 45th president of the United States woke up around 5:30am Eastern Time and decided to begin his Tuesday by berating the "Fake News Media...Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | August 28, 2018
The nation's top-level intelligence office, the Director of National Intelligence, wants to find "the most accurate unconstrained face recognition algorithm."
Ars Technica From ACM News | June 1, 2017
Half of American adults are in a face-recognition database, according to a Georgetown University study released Tuesday.Ars Technica From ACM News | October 20, 2016
Since Edward Snowden stepped into the limelight from a hotel room in Hong Kong three years ago, use of the Tor anonymity network has grown massively.Ars Technica From ACM News | September 1, 2016
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has access to as many as 411.9 million images as part of its face-recognition database. Ars Technica From ACM News | June 20, 2016
The Supreme Court on Monday declined (PDF) to hear a challenge from the Authors Guild and other writers claiming Google's scanning of their books amounts to wanton...Ars Technica From ACM News | April 18, 2016
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday evening said the US government's legal position on encryption backdoors was setting "a dangerous precedent."Ars Technica From ACM News | February 18, 2016
It has now been 2.5 years since the first Snowden revelations were published. And in 2015, government surveillance marched on in both large (the National Security...Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | January 7, 2016
Europe's top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), has struck down the 15-year-old Safe Harbour agreement that allowed the free flow of information...Ars Technica From ACM News | October 6, 2015
The U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ordered Google to remove links from its search results that point to news stories reporting on earlier removals...Ars Technica From ACM News | August 24, 2015
Someone who knows things about us has some measure of control over us, and someone who knows everything about us has a lot of control over us.Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | February 26, 2015
Within a few weeks we’ll have a huge document full of legalese on the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules, to replace the near-200-page ...Ars Technica From ACM News | February 6, 2015
Massachusetts' top court ruled, in a 5-2 decision on Wednesday, that a criminal suspect can be ordered to decrypt his seized computer.Ars Technica From ACM News | June 26, 2014
For the first time, the United States' most secret court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), has published its legal rationale as to why the ...Ars Technica From ACM News | September 19, 2013
When we reviewed iOS 6 a year ago, we called it a "spit-and-polish" release and stand by that assessment today.Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | September 18, 2013