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Announcing Who Has Your Face Clearview

Announcing Who Has Your Face

The government and law enforcement should not be scanning your photos with face recognition technology. But right now, at least half of Americans are likely in government face recognition databases—often thanks to secretive agreements between state and federal government agencies—without any of us having opted in. Although the majority of…
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March 19, 2020
Bigger Brother Be Evil

Bigger Brother

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff PublicAffairs, 691 pp., $38.00 ‘The Happy Way’ by Pushwagner; from Soft City, published by New York Review Comics in 2016In the 1970s, when Shoshana Zuboff was a graduate student in…
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March 19, 2020
How tech could help tourist destinations struggling in the wake of COVID-19 VR

How tech could help tourist destinations struggling in the wake of COVID-19

For years, popular destinations have been heaving under the weight of overtourism, desperate to get the problem under control. But thanks to the coronavirus’s spread, destinations that were once struggling with too many visitors, such as Venice and Rome, are eerily empty of travelers.Venice has been one of the hardest-hit…
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March 19, 2020
Manufacturing Hit, Senate Clears Stimulus, ECB Bond Buy: Eco Day Tayyip Erdogan

Manufacturing Hit, Senate Clears Stimulus, ECB Bond Buy: Eco Day

(Bloomberg) -- Welcome to Thursday, Europe. Here’s the latest news and analysis from Bloomberg Economics to help you start the day:Coronavirus’s economic impact is shifting from service-driven industries to the manufacturing sector on both sides of the Atlantic, leading to a synchronized shutdown of heavy industry not seen since the…
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March 19, 2020