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"We are fighting against a vicious union-busting campaign, and we are going to win," said one Amazon warehouse worker. The Teamsters launched what the union described as "the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history" on Thursday morning to protest the e-commerce behemoth's unlawful refusal to bargain with organized drivers and warehouse workers across the country. Workers in New

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"Facial recognition tools pose a serious threat to the public's civil liberties and privacy rights, and Clearview AI's product is particularly dangerous," warn four progressive lawmakers. A quartet of progressives in Congress sent letters to five U.S. departments Wednesday urging all federal agencies to end the use of Clearview AI's facial recognition technology. "Facial recognition technology runs the risk

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"With Sen. Cantwell caving to unreasonable demands from opponents to Sohn, we're going to see a hearing full of political posturing that serves no one except industry players eager to draw out the calendar and keep the FCC deadlocked," said one advocate. The Senate Commerce Committee's ongoing delay in confirming President Joe Biden's nominee to fill

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These machines—some of which can be fixed with weaponry—are less cute-video or selfie fodder and more of a civil liberties-invading hellhound. On February 1, 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate, the official research and development arm of the agency, released a cutesy press release about how robotic dogs made in collaboration

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From Ladakh and Bhutan to Sweden and Australia, a clear pattern has emerged: as people are pushed into deepening dependence on large-scale, technological systems, ecological and social crises escalate. The most recent topic explored by the thinkers and activists who make up the Great Transition Network was "Technology and the Future." As writer after writer posted

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Federal lawmakers joined with advocacy groups that argued requiring biometric information to access records online is a "creepy and disturbing strike" at privacy and security. After Democrats in both chambers of Congress added their voices to the growing chorus of opposition to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's plan to require the use of a private company's

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The longer Congress waits," warned one advocate, "the stronger and more dangerous this industry will become. More than four dozen consumer advocacy, media justice, and privacy rights groups on Wednesday urged the Senate and House Judiciary Committees to hold hearings on the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act--a bill meant to curb warrantless mass surveillance--as

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Google has a powerful financial incentive to obscure the details of its location data collection practices and to make it difficult for consumers to opt out of being tracked," said one AG. Attorneys general from Washington, D.C. and three states plan to sue Google on Monday, accusing the tech giant of deceiving consumers about the security

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The Doomsday Clock, a symbol of "how close we are to destroying our world," remains at 100 seconds to midnight. Top scientists responsible for the "Doomsday Clock" issued a stark warning Thursday about how close the world is to catastrophe due to the climate emergency, nuclear weapons, and "disruptive technologies in other domains." "The Doomsday Clock continues

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