Recently, The New York Times announced it had hired journalist Kashmir Hill to its business beat. Hill, most recently of Gizmodo, has long covered privacy in a distinct and unique first-person style, often through experimentation of her own with technology products and services. There was the time s...

An ad campaign released last week by the Toronto Transit Commission publicly distributes embarrassing surveillance tapes to deter fare evasion. In light of this, we should be questioning how this campaign reflects on the dissipating privacy norms in our city. The TTC’s new ad campaign features actu...

Advances in technology, such as the increase in data mining, the spread of smartphones and tablets, and improvements in internet connectivity, have created a data-rich world where the economic and social value of personal data has increased immensely. The increase in the value of data has spawned a ...

With new technologies, the timeline from “that’s freaky!” to “ho-hum” is rapidly getting compressed. That’s certainly proving true of facial-recognition technology. In the film “Minority Report,” released in 2002, Director Steven Spielberg envisioned a world (set in 2054) in which every individual ...