4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (151+ words) We humans are disturbingly malleable and conformist, and the digital age has made it exceptionally easy to turn us into banal, evil creatures. A lot of people prefer the idea that evil is confined to a small class of monsters....

1+ mon, 9+ hour ago  (263+ words) After becoming the target of police harassment, the Chinese artist and journalist Ai Weiwei left his homeland for good in 2015. In a new book, On Censorship, he writes about how censorship and surveillance go hand in hand. Like a dealer…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago  (38+ words) Warning about a future of high-tech surveillance in the hands of an authoritarian state, a radio host says now is the time to fight a loss of privacy and freedom in your home and in your head....

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (235+ words) Jenni Frazer is a freelance journalist By a margin of 57 votes to 47, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) program Chat GPT has been "acquitted" of a raft of crimes against human beings and education in a lively " and at times hilarious " debate…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (275+ words) Children in the United Kingdom are thwarting online age verification systems by drawing facial hair on themselves to appear older, multiple news outlets report. A report from a U. K. -based nonprofit focused on online child safety found that nearly a third…...

3+ week, 8+ hour ago  (17+ words) Around the world, governments are censoring speech with the stated goal of shielding youth from online harms....

4+ week, 8+ hour ago  (1130+ words) Understand metadata surveillance and its implications. Encryption protects content, but metadata reveals who, when, and where....

4+ week, 10+ hour ago  (331+ words) Despite the lofty promises of their proponents, age verification laws have only delivered faulty services and censorship....