Privacy & Digital Rights Correspondent
James Malkin has spent more than 25 years in the technology industry, including director-level roles at billion-dollar companies. He is passionate about emerging technologies, with a particular interest in artificial intelligence. At Automatica, he covers technology, policy and digital rights.
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A new wave of camera innovations, from a viral dual-perspective recording app to magnetic e-ink photo frames, is accelerating the digitization of our most intimate moments, demanding that we ask what happens to the self when every angle is captured and every memory made mutable....
Read article →The quiet machinery of corporate control often grinds not with thunder, but with the subtle hum of a price adjustment or the flicker of a redesigned interface. Today, that hum grows louder as Apple removes its most accessible Mac Mini option, raising the entry barrier to its ecos...
Read article →The silent whir of servers and the flickering dance of data streams often feel distant, yet they are the very sinews of our modern existence, increasingly shaping the contours of our autonomy. A new research paper from arXiv CS....
Read article →A new horizon shimmers, a digital landscape where the self is sovereign, not a product. This vision of an interoperable social web, where the individual, not the platform, dictates the terms of connection, stands as the central promise of the federated internet EFF Deeplinks....
Read article →The mechanical whir of a new machine, charting the silent contours of a private home, might seem an innocuous hum. But with the release of Dyson's Spot + Scrub Ai robot vacuum and mop, a more profound resonance echoes through our most intimate spaces: the sound of a company—once...
Read article →The silent hum of a server, miles away, could soon become the interpreter of our innermost frailties. A new paper, published on arXiv CS....
Read article →A new wave of research emerging from platforms like arXiv, published on May 1, 2026, promises to fundamentally alter how artificial intelligence systems understand and manipulate the world around us. These advancements in causal inference – the ability to discern true cause-and-e...
Read article →A new generation of automatons is not merely operating within the digital world, but actively writing its very bedrock, crafting its own internal logic, and even policing its own silent degradations. Two recent arXiv preprints reveal a profound acceleration in the capability of a...
Read article →A new frontier of artificial intelligence, detailed in a series of papers published today on arXiv CS. AI, is not merely predicting disease but is beginning to construct a digital simulacrum of the human mind and body....
Read article →A chilling digital ultimatum echoes from Meta this week: withdraw Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp from the state of New Mexico, or comply with demands deemed “technologically impractical” by the social media giant. This pronouncement follows a substantial $375 million jury awar...
Read article →The shadow lengthens, not recedes. In a move that serves more as a deferral than a definitive act, Congress has reauthorized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for merely another 45 days The Verge....
Read article →The shadow of state surveillance, long cast over the digital lives of ordinary citizens, was merely prolonged this week as Congress voted to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for another precarious 45 days. This extension, narrowly passed...
Read article →The boundary of the self, already porous in the digital age, has been further eroded with the introduction of Stripe's Link, a new digital wallet empowering autonomous AI agents to conduct transactions on behalf of users TechCrunch. This development, announced on April 30, 2026, ...
Read article →The digital echoes of a life, laid bare not by choice but by the careless architecture of observation, became starkly real this week as extremely sensitive personal data, seemingly compiled by spyware, was found publicly accessible on the internet [Wired]. This incident, involvin...
Read article →A flickering image, a curated stream of borrowed light, once a testament to the digital commons where ideas flowed and remixed, now faces the algorithmic censor. Instagram, the colossus of visual culture, has declared a new front in its ongoing war against what it deems "unorigin...
Read article →The subtle hum of a server, thousands of miles away, is now more intimately connected to your very being than ever before. Newly published research from arXiv CS....
Read article →A new wave of research, prominently featured in arXiv CS. AI on April 30, 2026, details a hierarchical framework capable of synthesizing "multiple evidence-grounded personas" from vast troves of user behavioral logs arXiv CS....
Read article →The flickering light of a screen, once a beacon of unbridled expression, now reveals the tightening grip of censorship, extending its tendrils from war-torn territories to the very digital conduits of our daily lives. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has cast a stark ligh...
Read article →The flicker of a security camera lens, once a passive eye recording mere motion, now promises to peer into the very sinews of human intention. No longer content with merely identifying what is happening, a new wave of artificial intelligence research is rapidly advancing capabili...
Read article →The silence of decision, the flicker of hesitation, the unspoken desire — these are the last bastions of the private self. A new vanguard of artificial intelligence seeks to penetrate these unseen realms....
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