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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Another day, another data privacy scare. This time, the culprit is Anthropic's experimental sandbox runtime, which recently patched a vulnerability that allowed for covert data exfiltration via DNS re...
Read article →Microsoft's ambitious expansion of its data center footprint, fueled by the insatiable demands of AI, has sparked predictable concerns about energy consumption and the potential impact on consumer ele...
Read article →The Snowden archive, a treasure trove of classified documents exposing the extent of government surveillance, continues to yield revelations years after its initial release. A new analysis focusing on...
Read article →The internet, for all its vastness, often feels fragmented when searching for specific information. Try tracking down comprehensive metadata for a book, and you'll quickly find yourself bouncing betwe...
Read article →The unchecked proliferation of data centers, those energy-guzzling behemoths of the digital age, is finally facing a reckoning. As Katherine Blunt reports in *The Wall Street Journal*, power grid oper...
Read article →The promise of a good night's sleep has always come at a price. Now, it seems that price is our privacy. Ozlo, the company best known for its noise-masking Sleepbuds, is poised to become a major playe...
Read article →In a move sure to ignite further debate, Microsoft has been revealed as the driving force behind a controversial data center proposal in a Michigan township grappling with water scarcity. For months, ...
Read article →The U.S. government has finally secured a conviction against a spyware operator, marking the first successful prosecution of its kind in over a decade. The founder of pcTattletale, a company peddling ...
Read article →A new report reveals a disturbing trend: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is increasingly detaining individuals with no criminal convictions, fueling public outcry and raising serious ques......
Read article →The tectonic plates of data infrastructure are shifting once again, with Singapore-based DayOne Data Centers securing a staggering $2 billion in Series C funding led by Coatue. While the press release...
Read article →Meta's insatiable appetite for computing power, fueled by its ambitions in artificial intelligence and the metaverse, has led the tech giant to strike a series of massive nuclear energy deals. In an a...
Read article →A new online map, Surveillance Watch (surveillancewatch.io), has emerged, promising to pull back the curtain on the sprawling network of companies involved in the global surveillance industry. At a ti...
Read article →Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is embarking on a new surveillance technology acquisition spree, raising serious concerns about privacy and civil liberties. Fresh on the heels of revelati......
Read article →The relentless march of data continues, and with it, a massive concentration of data centers in the United States. According to recent analysis, more than half of all upcoming global data center de......
Read article →Once again, the siren song of 'more' and 'faster' threatens to drown out the quiet but persistent voice of reason: What about our data? OWC's newly unveiled 192TB ThunderBlade X12, boasting a blist......
Read article →California has launched a groundbreaking tool empowering residents to demand deletion of their personal information from all registered data brokers. This marks a monumental shift in the balance of......
Read article →California residents have a new weapon in the fight against unchecked data collection: the Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, or 'DROP.' Launched January 1st, this free tool empowers Californians......
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