Commercial software is nearly flawless at telling the gender of white men, a study says, but not so for darker-skinned women.

Beijing hopes its social credit system will quickly punish companies accused of wrongdoing. U.S. firms could get hit too.

Smart technology can make it easier to keep tabs on your home when you’re on vacation, but it also makes it harder to really get away.

Joseph Simons, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, described a settlement with Google over children’s privacy violations on YouTube as “a significant victory” for parents.

The Silicon Valley company said hackers — almost certainly Russian — made off with tools that could be used to mount new attacks around the world.

The attack disrupted the district’s websites and remote learning programs, as well as its grading and email systems, officials said.

AI systems are being used to detect whether people are standing less than 6 feet apart during the COVID-19 pandemic, but concerns are being raised around whether temperature tracking is. or could become a serious privacy concern.

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.

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.

Dorsey’s account began posting racial epithets, profanities and bomb threats. A company spokesman confirmed it was hacked.