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Julia Angwin

Who’s tracking your online activities

Environment

How some websites — like MSN and Hulu — track your online activities by using ‘supercookies,’ which are nearly impossible to delete.

Mysterious keyboard

A new online tracking tool may be shadowing you on the web

Business
Mysterious keyboard

A new online tracking tool may be shadowing you on the web

Business
Dragnet Nation

A cell phone wrapped in tin foil is just one of the ways Julia Angwin went off the grid in her new book

Global Politics

Police facial-recognition scanners raise privacy concerns

Environment

New Police Technology Raises Privacy Concerns

Starting this fall, law-enforcement agencies across the country will be outfitted with new devices that will make iPhones capable of scanning a person’s face and matching it to a database of people with criminal records. The new facial-recognition technology, which is also able to collect fingerprints, has raised concerns with privacy advocates who say police […]