GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY TODAY

Google knows more about you than you might think. Here's how to keep it from tracking your location, web browsing, and more.

Investor proposals limiting Amazon’s face recognition sales can now proceed after the company argued they concerned “an insignificant public policy issue.”

The ambition is to turn videos into a medium as easily searched as a text document. A team from India just took some important steps toward that end.

The little pocket supercomputers we all constantly carry around with us aren’t just supplying us with useful information, they’re also collecting a host of data on us and our habits, all of the time. Here’s a guide to what gets collected by your smartphone and the apps running on it, and how you can take back some control.

If you use Google apps on your phone, Google keeps a log of everywhere you go with stunning detail. Here's how to stop Google from tracking your location and delete its log of where you've been.

From a consumer point of view, it’s hard to get too upset about Apple’s position on privacy, even if it’s a little complicated. The company has a strong voice in Washington, and during the Trump era, congressional Democrats may need all the help they can get to pass meaningful data privacy legislation before 2020.

Several companies are using software to automatically detect guns in schools, but it’s still difficult to judge the accuracy or integrity of their systems.