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EU study puts digital identity on research roadmap for next Horizon Europe

EU study puts digital identity on research roadmap for next Horizon Europe

Education ecosystems deeply aligned with AI – but what’s the impact on teaching, learning and research training?

Education ecosystems deeply aligned with AI – but what’s the impact on teaching, learning and research training?

Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

US Social Security becomes major test of digital identity at scale

US Social Security becomes major test of digital identity at scale

ICE’s 5M Thomson Reuters deal adds data layer to identity targeting systems

ICE’s $125M Thomson Reuters deal adds data layer to identity targeting systems

Tencent takes palmprint verification to standard smartphone cameras

Tencent takes palmprint verification to standard smartphone cameras

Moldova plans national facial image database for police searches, European data exchange

Moldova plans national facial image database for police searches, European data exchange

How AI Chatbots Are ‘Deskilling’ Human Empathy

How AI Chatbots Are ‘Deskilling’ Human Empathy

When I first started writing about online cultures and subcultures almost 10 years ago, one of the first […]

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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

Posted on 10.01.2026

How the Feds Get Your Data

How the Feds Get Your Data

Posted on 10.01.2026

Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

Posted on 09.29.2026

Surveillance Finds a Way

Surveillance Finds a Way

Posted on 09.29.2026

Moldova plans national facial image database for police searches, European data exchange

Clearview AI operational at BIA months before new facial recognition procurement

Posted on 09.24.2026

People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

Posted on 09.24.2026