In his first story for WIRED, Dhruv Mehrotra dove into "accountability apps" that churches use to monitor everything congregants do on their phones. These apps are billed as anti-pornography tools, but they do a lot more than that wired.com/story/covenant… Tip Techmeme

I wrote about my experience online during my dad's most recent cancer diagnosis. It was a hard story to write and I am really proud of how it came out. When my dad was sick, I started Googling grief. Then I couldn't escape it – for MIT Technology Review technologyreview.com/2023/02/06/106…

A moving, revealing story by @taterymo about grief & the internet’s personalization algorithms. “With every search & click, I inadvertently created a sticky web of digital grief. Ultimately, it would prove nearly impossible to untangle myself,” she writes. technologyreview.com/2023/02/06/106…

The Technocrat, my newsletter for MIT Technology Review, launched on Friday! Subscribe so I can write to you every week about the impact of technologies like biometrics, data mining, algorithms, and computational censorship on government and politics! Read below: technologyreview.com/2023/02/13/106…

The Technocrat is MIT Technology Review's new weekly newsletter on all things technology and politics, offering important insights into the way we relate to each other and our institutions, and how democracy is struggling to keep up. trib.al/UErWscD

Woah I am so humbled to be mentioned in this list of absolute stars of reporters that I look up to 😳

When cool new smart sensors turned up at CMU's Institute for Software Research, not *everyone* was happy, as Eileen Guo is on Bluesky and Tate Ryan Mosley report today. This terrific long read lays out the difficulties in understanding what privacy really means to people. technologyreview.com/2023/04/03/107…

Some context for the mifepristone ruling from The Technocrat last month. Now quite relevant...

EXCLUSIVE: People are using AI chatbots to fill junk websites with AI-generated text that attracts paying advertisers, according to a new report shared with MIT Technology Review. trib.al/SL3LjeH

Exclusive: Google is launching new anti-censorship technology created in response to actions by Iran's government during the 2022 protests there, hoping that it will increase access for internet users living under authoritarian regimes all over the world. trib.al/Crl7Gnk