privacy

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/its-not-worth-paying-to-be-removed-from-people-finder-sites-study-says/ It’s not worth paying to be removed from people-finder sites, study says The best removal rate was less than 70%, and that didn't beat manual opt-outs. Kevin Purdy - 8/8/2024...

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/26/eus-going-dark-expert-group-publishes-42-point-surveillance-plan-for-access-to-all-devices-and-data-at-all-times/ EU’s ‘Going Dark’ Expert Group Publishes 42-Point Surveillance Plan For Access To All Devices And Data At All Times (Mis)Uses of Technology...

https://tuta.com/blog/cars-have-terrible-privacy Cars are becoming data harvesting nightmares Privacy is driving off a cliff: with their digital push, vehicle manufacturers collect and sell an obscene amount of personal information. 2024-06-06 The automobile industry has discovered a great...

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/age-verification-systems-will-be-a-personal-identifiable-information-nightmare/ Age Verification Systems Will Be a Personal Identifiable Information Nightmare Online ID checking is insecure, bad for privacy, and will not help children. By Sarah Scheffler Posted...

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/29/well-thats-everyone-senator-wyden-letter-confirms-the-nsa-is-buying-us-persons-data-from-data-brokers/ Well, That’s Everyone: Senator Wyden Letter Confirms The NSA Is Buying US Persons’ Data From Data Brokers Privacy from the...

https://www.wired.com/story/parabon-nanolabs-dna-face-models-police-facial-recognition/ BY DHRUV MEHROTRA SECURITY JAN 22, 2024 7:00 AM Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It Police around the US say they're justified to run DNA-generated 3D...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2023/12/14/google-just-killed-geofence-warrants-police-location-data/?sh=2aca66092c86 Google Just Killed Warrants That Give Police Access To Location Data “Geofence warrants,” which allow law enforcement to get location data across a wide area, have...

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-cars-privacy-nightmare-wheels.html Cars are a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'. Here's how they get away with collecting and sharing your databy Katharine Kemp, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock Cars with internet-connected features are fast becoming...

https://www.engadget.com/a-food-delivery-robots-footage-led-to-a-criminal-conviction-in-la-190854339.html A food delivery robot's footage led to a criminal conviction in LAServe Robotics handed footage over to the LAPD after two people attempted to steal one of its bots. Cheyenne MacDonald...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/opinion/ai-internet-lawsuit.html OPINION GUEST ESSAY The Internet Is About to Get Much Worse Sept. 23, 2023 By Julia Angwin Ms. Angwin is a contributing Opinion writer and an investigative journalist. Greg Marston, a British voice actor, recently came...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/opinion/ai-internet-lawsuit.html OPINION GUEST ESSAY The Internet Is About to Get Much Worse Sept. 23, 2023 By Julia Angwin Ms. Angwin is a contributing Opinion writer and an investigative journalist. Greg Marston, a British voice actor, recently came...

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/07/20/apple-threatens-to-pull-facetime-and-imessage-uk/ Thursday July 20, 2023 5:10 am PDT by Hartley Charlton Apple says it will pull services including FaceTime and iMessage in the UK if plans to amend surveillance legislation that would require tech companies...

https://www.wired.com/story/europe-break-encryption-leaked-document-csa-law/ In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country's officials said it is “imperative that we have access to the data.” SECURITYMAY 22, 2023 3:23 PM SPAIN HAS ADVOCATED banning...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/signal-vows-to-defy-uk-legislation-that-puts-e2e-encryption-in-the-crosshairs/ The UK's Safety Online Bill would require Signal to police user messages. DAN GOODIN - 2/24/2023, 6:48 PM The nonprofit responsible for the Signal messenger...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/13/mental-health-data-brokers/ https://archive.is/85XQy Capitalizing on the pandemic explosion in telehealth and therapy apps that collect details of your mental health needs, data brokers are packaging that information for resale, a new study...

https://futurism.com/track-every-homeless-person-san-francisco https://archive.is/iT8hR PRIVACY TRADEOFF 2. 4. 19 by DAN ROBITZSKI The system can coordinate help for the city's homeless, but requires a lot of personal data. BIG BROTHER San Francisco, unsurprisingly, has decided that the...

Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop Sam Levin in Los Angeles @SamTLevin Wed 8 Sep 2021 10.06 EDT Los Angeles police officers survey a protest in downtown Los Angeles on 14 August. Photograph: Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/Rex/Shutterstock...

Won't be able to travel without one. How soon will it be to where you can't buy groceries or go to work without it?

Jeffrey Paul: Your Computer Isn't Yours 12 November 2020 ( 1122 words, approximately 6 minutes reading time. ) It’s here. It happened. Did you notice? I’m speaking, of course, of the world that Richard Stallman predicted in 1997. The one Cory Doctorow also warned us about. On modern versions...

Chrome (which is my web browser) notified me about this site's privacy connection and suggested for me to temporarily avoid entering...that's my screenshot below. Chrome alerts me whenever I enter a site that MAY have been potentially compromised for my safety/protecting my important...