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Chinese-style surveillance is coming to a neighborhood near you. From drones barking orders at park-goers to tracing people's movements through cellphones, Western governments are rushing to embrace sophisticated surveillance tools that would have been unthinkable just a few weeks ago. In the European Union, home to the world's strictest privacy…

Today, there are no clues as to the danger lurking outside my front door except for the eerie absence of people. Our lives are being restricted by a virus that is invisible to the naked eye, verging on abstraction, and yet it is terrifyingly real. Compare this to all the…

March 18, 2020 12:38 PM ET The data-mining company that was responsible for locating terrorist Osama bin Laden is reportedly working with the Trump administration on a bold plan to measure the coronavirus outbreak. Palantir is aiding the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to deploy geolocation technology as…

Medical personnel take a sample from a person at a drive-thru covid-19 testing station at a Kaiser Permanente facility on March 12, 2020 in San Francisco, California (Photo: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images) For many people in the U.S. who fear they’re already sick with covid-19, the past few weeks have…

Two handy things to know, when you’re reporting on an ultraweathy individual, is whether that person owns a private jet, and where that jet has been. So last year, when an editor assigned me to report on tech billionaire and major right-wing donor Peter Thiel, I set out to find…

Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the progress and impact of AI highlight the growing respect for data and its uses by businesses everywhere and the increasingly positive—but still mixed—attitudes towards AI by US consumers. 46% of US consumers have changed how they feel about AI and…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption This pandemic is the first to be played out via smartphones It's the first pandemic of the smartphone era - and that means governments have access to new ways of tracking the spread of Covid-19. On this week's Tech Tent, we find out about…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption This pandemic is the first to be played out via smartphones It's the first pandemic of the smartphone era - and that means governments have access to new ways of tracking the spread of Covid-19. On this week's Tech Tent, we find out about…

On March 6, Mountain View-based Google gave employees as its Bay Area offices the option to work from home as local counties report more cases of COVID-19. Voice file photo. Google, Facebook, Amazon, SAP and Palantir Technologies. In droves, leading Silicon Valley-based tech companies weathering the brewing storm of the…

Amazon said it plans to pay hourly workers who service its East Palo Alto offices usually occupied by employees who have now been told to work from home to avoid potential spread of the new coronavirus. Weekly file photo by Veronica Weber. Google, Facebook, Amazon, SAP and Palantir Technologies. In…