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• 5 min
• BBC News
• 2019

A Google affiliated urban development project in Toronto has raised concerns about the data privacy of its citizens. Specifically, the collection of large amounts of data within this “smart city” and the potential private direction of public services like transportation cause citizen pushback.

• Data Privacy
• Tech Monopolies
• Data Mining
• Internet of Things

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• 5 min
• Science Alert
• 2019

A newly revealed patent application filed by Amazon raises privacy concerns over an upgrade to the virtual assistant Alexa, in which the system records everything a users says in 10-30 second bits to look out for a command.

• Data Privacy
• Assistive Technologies
• Data Mining
• Internet of Things

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• 7 min
• The New York Times
• 2019

ICE, along with other law enforcement agencies, mined state driver’s license databases using facial recognition tech to track down undocumented immigrants and prosecute more cases.

• Data Privacy
• Civil Surveillance
• Computer Vision
• Object Recognition
• Data Mining

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• 7 min
• The Washington Post
• 2013

Description of how targeted ads worked in the Obama re-election campaign, and why they were used. Specifically, the combination of the campaign buying advertising space in Google and ad companies tracking user activity across the web led to a robust targeted advertising campaign unlike anything seen before it.

• Data Privacy
• Data Mining

• 
• 5 min
• ARS Technica
• 2019

Google records some audio and has language experts review it to improve language skills of the technology. However, this may raise privacy concerns as sometimes they record by accident when users aren’t trying to use the Google Assistant.

• Data Privacy
• Assistive Technologies
• Data Mining
• Internet of Things

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• 7 min
• n/a
• 2018

Exploration of how, through facial and emotion recognition, digital artifacts make decisions on what we may want or need, and what they are able to do with this data.

• Data Privacy
• Computing Ethics Issues
• Computer Vision
• Data Mining