Facebook And Google Are Buying Up The Cables That Carry The Internet

Facebook, Google, Amazon and Microsoft have been slowly buying up significant portions of the internet infrastructure.

How Facebook's New Machine Brain Will Learn All About You From Your Photos

Facebook poaches an NYU machine learning star to start a new AI lab that may very well end up knowing more about your social life than you do.

International Authors Launch Petition Calling For End To Mass Surveillance

562 of the world's authors, including five Nobel Prize laureates, came together to call for sweeping surveillance reform in the wake of the ongoing spying scandal.

New Algorithm Finds You, Even In Untagged Photos

A new algorithm designed at the University of Toronto could change the way we find photos among the billions on social media sites such as Facebook and Flickr.

Senators Want To Stop Giving The NSA A Stamp Of Approval To Spy On Anyone

They who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.