Cities collect personal data. Long Beach is being open about it

Rain was falling steadily as the group huddled underneath umbrellas outside the Mark Twain Neighborhood Library…

FTC probe: Do companies use consumer surveillance to hike prices?

It’s no secret that Californians pay more than the rest of the country for many goods…

Column: The ATT and UnitedHealth breaches put the public at risk

AT&T is one of America’s largest telecommunications companies. Last year it recorded a pretax profit of…

Opinion: What's behind the AI boom? Exploited humans

When tech companies present their products as sleek autonomous computers, that ignores the labor powering the…

Happy birthday, Amazon? Why I won’t celebrate the company’s 30th

I had just started my master’s degree in artificial intelligence when a classmate asked if I’d…