The Apple's India team's recent 'clarification' on its so-called algorithm malfunction has much to discuss. However, it refrained from explicitly mentioning the (perceived as absurd) theory of an algorithm malfunction.…
India has been turned into a full-scale surveillance state with the masses under the watchful eye of the government, vulnerable and oblivious to being tracked, profiled, recorded, and registered at…
While driving on Nagpur's roads, I was in the driving seat of my car, engrossed in my thoughts, delving into the latest advancements in machine learning techniques—a subject which often…
The Delhi, Bengaluru, and Varanasi airports have recently begun the ‘DigiYatra’ service. It is a facial recognition technology (FRT)-based passenger boarding system verified by Aadhar details. Recent news also says…
by Venkatesh Narayanan and Sandeep Pandey The issue is not privacy - it has never been. Millenials of all stripes today willingly sign-off most of their personal life fully…
I know what it means to be watched all too carefully, a phenomenon that’s only grown worse in the war-on-terror years. I’m a strange combination, I suspect, being both a…
Partner with private firms to surveil domestic terrorists A May 3, 2021, Washington datelined CNN report said: The Biden administration is considering using outside firms to track extremist chatter by…
“The higher education in India is poised for colossal changes with deleterious outcomes under the 'surveillance capitalism,'” according to G. Arunima, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Director of Kerala…
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.” ― George Orwell, 1984 The year 2020 is going to be recorded by future…
Co-Written by Jitamanyu Sahoo & Syed Mujtaba Hussain Surveillance has served as the eye of public health every time our world is in collision with epidemics. From the identification of…
It’s fitting that the same society that produced George Orwell with his warnings of a totalitarian dystopia stacked with all-prying monitors, surveillance and paranoia should yield up some of the…
In of itself, technological development is benign. But behind every use is a human agent, and behind that agent is a motive, an inspiration, an agenda. Monitoring one’s employees has…
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