Google shut out privacy and security teams from secret China project ~tech google Article 2335 words 22 votes
Does Tildes have a Warrant Canary? ~tildes suggestions Text 27 words Previously, reddit had a warrant canary that was removed, and it occurred to me that I hadn't checked to see if Tildes had one at any point. 27 votes
New South Wales police and crime agencies are preparing to use a new national facial recognition system ~tech privacy Article 748 words 3 votes
Pentagon working on tech to identify protestors with bad/non-existent opsec ~tech social media Article 4890 words 19 votes
Ban on Chinese mobile giants for 5G 'needed to protect critical Australian infrastructure' ~tech privacy Article 506 words 6 votes
China suggests Trump 'can use Huawei' after iPhone tapping report ~tech smartphones Article 130 words 9 votes
Surveillance capitalism has led us into a dystopia ~tech social media google facebook Article 23 votes
China blocks website that revealed spyware and "re-education" camp monitoring ~tech privacy internet Article 775 words 9 votes
The government wants airlines to delay your flight so they can scan your face ~tech privacy Article 522 words 15 votes
China's Social Credit system: The first modern digital dictatorship ~tech Article 1554 words, published Sep 17 2018 8 votes
Encrypting SNI: Fixing one of the core internet bugs ~tech privacy internet Article 1446 words 8 votes
The right to bear arms (and say shocking stuff on Facebook) ~tech social media facebook Article 6618 words 8 votes
GCHQ data collection violated human rights, Strasbourg court rules. Spies breached right to privacy in programme revealed by Edward Snowden, judges say ~tech privacy Article 10 votes
Mozilla co-founder's Brave files adtech complaint against Google ~tech privacy google Article 627 words 15 votes
Who controls your data? Nine reporters in London, Paris, New York & San Francisco filed more than 150 requests for personal data to 30+ popular tech companies ~tech privacy Article 3731 words 8 votes
Should Grindr users worry about what China will do with their data? ~tech privacy security Article 1202 words, published Aug 31 2018 16 votes
Google and Mastercard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales ~tech google privacy Article 92 words 26 votes
The tech industry is lobbying for federal data & privacy regulation that is friendly to the tech industry, but hostile to users' interests ~tech privacy Article 1471 words 11 votes
Newly released documents reveal Memphis police have been spying on Black Lives Matter activists ~news usa.tn.memphis law.constitutional Article 1079 words 8 votes
David Davis brands use of child spies ‘morally repugnant’ – Theresa May’s spokeswoman defends practice revealed by House of Lords committee ~news united kingdom politics Article 775 words 8 votes
Walmart's newly patented technology for eavesdropping on workers presents privacy concerns ~tech privacy Article 1122 words 18 votes
Box CEO Aaron Levie says mistrust of Google and Facebook is a ‘contagion’ that could spread to every tech company ~tech facebook google social media Article 610 words 21 votes
The surveillance economy and extreme income inequality: You can't have one without the other by Jaron Lanier ~finance economics Video 1:06:03, published Feb 19 2014 5 votes
The National Security Agency said it collected more domestic call records than allowed, and as a result has been mass-deleting call records ~news usa Article 678 words 9 votes
A debate on NSA spying "Spy On Me, I'd Rather Be Safe". Very civil, structured debate between four experts in their fields. ~tech privacy Link 10 votes
It turns out all kinds of tech companies are working with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ~tech Article 634 words 7 votes
Like it or not, camera-equipped police drones will soon patrol the skies ~tech privacy Article 469 words 11 votes
Behind the messy, expensive split between Facebook and WhatsApp’s founders ~tech facebook privacy security Article 237 words 5 votes