World, a start-up backed by Sam Altman, has launched in the United States with the goal of verifying your humanity.
Category: Privacy
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Finding 314 Things the Government Might Know About You
Two reporters spent over a month compiling and analyzing information about the reams of data the U.S. government collects about Americans.
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Florida Seeks Drug Prescription Data With Names of Patients and Doctors
The state’s insurance regulator has demanded detailed information about patients and their medications, raising privacy concerns.
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D.C. Lawmakers Take Aim at DeepSeek
Lawmakers are said to be working on a bill to block the Chinese chatbot app from government devices, underscoring concerns about the artificial intelligence race.
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Forget the Instagram Hard Launch: Are You Location-Sharing Official?
It’s the final frontier in digital expressions of coupledom. But for some people, it’s always going to be creepy.
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Digital Tags Come to Kroger and Walmart, but Chains Deny ‘Surge Pricing’
Some members of Congress have expressed concerns that stores will monitor customers and raise prices. Business experts say the tech has not raised customers’ grocery bills.
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How Iceland Became a Virtual Home for Online Disinformation and Identity Theft
A Reykjavik building that houses a penis museum and an H&M is also the virtual home to an array of perpetrators of identity theft, ransomware and disinformation.
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As 23andMe Struggles, Concerns Surface About Its Genetic Data
A plummet in the company’s valuation and a recent board resignation have raised questions about the future of genetic data collected from millions of customers.
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That Message From Your Doctor? It May Have Been Drafted by A.I.
Overwhelmed by queries, physicians are turning to artificial intelligence to correspond with patients. Many have no clue that the replies are software-generated.