Dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information in gigantic data files. The Times Privacy Project obtained one such files. It holds more than 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than 12 million Americans as they moved through several major cities, including Washington, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Algorithms falsely identified African-American and Asian faces 10 to 100 times more than Caucasian faces, researchers for the National Institute of Standards and Technology found.

A report says that the automotive industry has experienced 94% year-over-year growth in hacks since 2016. White hat hackers/bug bounties have accounted for 38% of these hacks, but majority are from black hat hackers.

Few politicians have teams to spot false statements about them online, or to fight back before it spreads.

Cigna Corp. plans to expand a system that uses artificial intelligence to identify gaps in treatment of chronic diseases, such as patients skipping their medications, and deliver personalized recommendations for specific patients.

A new law would give the country’s 1.3 billion people more power over data collected by companies but allow the government to exempt itself from the rules.

A Silicon Valley startup has completed what appears to be the first commercial freight cross-country trip by an autonomous truck, which finished a 2,800-mile-run from Tulare, California to Quakertown, Pennsylvania for Land O’Lakes in under three days.

The technologies Facebook uses to put advertising it deems relevant in front of people may be more responsible for the polarization of American politics than previously understood, a team of researchers has concluded.

Discussions are raised around the black boxes that are deep learning models, particularly in medical applications like mammography.

China's genetic research on ethnic minorities raises concerns by the global scientific community, who fear that the government may be using this information to spy on and oppress people.