Cops are already treating self-driving cars as 'surveillance cameras on wheels' ~transport Article 431 words, published Jun 30 2023 16 votes
No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Ireland's Data Protection Commission says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched there ~tech privacy social media facebook Article 353 words 48 votes
Stop using Google Analytics, warns Sweden’s privacy watchdog, as it issues over $1M in fines ~tech google.analytics facebook.connect Article 843 words 28 votes
Meta loses appeal on how it harvests data in Germany ~tech facebook social media Article 522 words 26 votes
Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it can use public data for training AI models ~tech google privacy Article 719 words 44 votes
An anti-porn app put him in jail and his family under surveillance - A court used an app called Covenant Eyes to surveil the family of a man released on bond ~tech Article 635 words 42 votes
The US is openly stockpiling dirt on all its citizens ~tech privacy security Article 510 words 25 votes
Reflections on ten years past the Edward Snowden revelations ~tech privacy Article 3015 words, published May 20 2023 10 votes
An anonymous critic played cat and mouse with Beijing for twelve years. Then he got caught. ~life Article 2055 words 12 votes
Once praised for its generous social safety net, Denmark now collects troves of data on welfare claimants ~tech Article 2339 words, published Mar 7 2023 10 votes
US Supreme Court declines to hear Wikimedia Foundation’s challenge to NSA mass surveillance ~tech Article 1172 words 8 votes
Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook ~tech privacy facebook social media Article 3590 words 7 votes
Students rebel against heat-sensing crotch monitor surveillance devices ~tech privacy Article 893 words 14 votes
A vast majority of people in the US and Canada suspect their smart speakers can eavesdrop on their conversations, and just over two-thirds think they’ve gotten ads based on that snooping ~tech privacy Article 668 words 21 votes
Propaganda, censorship, and surveillance are all inherent attributes of information monopoly ~tech privacy Link 10 votes
Grab – Asia's Uber – knows customers and drivers so well it can vet them for loans ~finance business Article 523 words 6 votes
Revealed: US Military bought mass monitoring tool that includes internet browsing, email data ~tech privacy internet security.national Article 2589 words 11 votes
On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services ~misc Article 644 words 14 votes
A dad took photos of his naked toddler for the doctor. Google flagged him as a criminal. ~tech google Article 2949 words 14 votes
Coinbase is selling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) a suite of features used to track and identify cryptocurrency users ~tech privacy Article 734 words 11 votes
Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire. Unions might not be the tech giant’s biggest labor threat. ~tech amazon Article 2792 words 18 votes
American phone-tracking firm demo’d surveillance powers by spying on CIA and NSA ~tech Article 3469 words 11 votes
Mozilla Rally - Data collection for research about data collection ~tech privacy Article 76 words 9 votes
For asylum seekers, Norway is a sanctuary but even in remote towns, Muslim refugees say they face surveillance and threats ~life Article 1295 words 2 votes
My journey down the rabbit hole of every journalist’s favorite app, Otter.ai ~tech privacy security Article 2192 words 4 votes
Google releases “disable 2g” feature for new Android smartphones ~tech security google Article 499 words 19 votes
Chinese province targets journalists, foreign students with planned new surveillance system ~tech Article 925 words, published Nov 29 2021 8 votes
A battle among homeowners in Colorado shows how license plate scanners are reshaping American neighborhoods ~tech Article 3085 words, published Oct 22 2021 10 votes
Pipeline company paid Minnesota police for arresting and surveilling protesters ~enviro energy climate change Article 1725 words 12 votes
Researchers who built similar system explain why Apple's CSAM scanning system is dangerous ~tech apple Article 896 words 10 votes
Xsolla fires 150 employees based on big data analysis of their activity ~finance business Article 492 words, published Aug 4 2021 14 votes
In leak investigation, tech giants are caught between courts and customers ~tech apple google Article 1587 words 9 votes
Heat List - Chicago PD automated policing program got this man shot twice ~tech Article 5235 words 10 votes
Upcoming lecture and Q&A, May 13th 2021 - Edward Snowden, “What I learned from games: playing for and against mass surveillance” ~games Article 303 words 2 votes
EFF Surveillance Self-Defense - Privacy breakdown of mobile phones ~tech privacy security Article 5234 words, published Feb 27 2021 18 votes
Employees at law enforcement agencies across the US ran thousands of Clearview AI facial recognition searches — often without the knowledge of the public or even their own departments ~tech privacy Article 5855 words 9 votes
How Big Tech helps India target climate activists: Companies such as Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian environmental campaigners ~enviro climate change Article 3386 words 6 votes
Denmark has committed to spending 1.5 billion Danish crowns on defence in the Arctic, utilising long-range drones to survey the area ~news denmark politics Article 210 words 8 votes