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13 votes
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No body's business but mine: How menstruation apps are sharing your data
6 votes -
Open Privacy discovers sensitive patient medical information is being broadcast unencrypted across Vancouver by hospital paging systems
9 votes -
Clarifying ProtonMail and Huawei
32 votes -
US Department of Justice demands Apple and Google hand over names of 10,000+ users of a gun scope app
11 votes -
DMVs Are Selling Your Data to Private Investigators
11 votes -
Apple Change Causes Scramble Among Private Messaging App Makers
7 votes -
In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior
9 votes -
Google and YouTube will pay record $170 million for alleged violations of US children’s privacy law
6 votes -
Brave uncovers Google’s GDPR workaround
13 votes -
Virtual Cards by Privacy
8 votes -
How Facebook tracks you on Android
8 votes -
Privacy Tools
19 votes -
Google to pay up to $200M to settle FTC investigation into YouTube over violations of children's privacy laws
7 votes -
BangBros bought PornWikiLeaks.com—a website devoted to doxing and harassing porn performers—solely to shut it down and remove all information associated with it
26 votes -
Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system
13 votes -
Swedish data protection agency has issued the country's first GDPR fine after a school was found improperly using facial recognition technology
7 votes -
Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan
26 votes -
Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection
17 votes -
The weaponisation of information is mutating at alarming speed
11 votes -
Interoperability and privacy: Squaring the circle
6 votes -
Microsoft Quietly Says it Keeps and Transcribes Your Conversations —Sometimes Even if You Chose Not to Let Them
8 votes -
Data regulator probes King's Cross facial recognition tech
6 votes -
Announcing the WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy
12 votes -
The privacy problems with electronic payment systems, including credit cards
10 votes -
Reddit is moving to a twitter-like public follower system
I recently received this message from an admin: Hello! You are receiving this message because you have followed a user profile in the past. Starting on 08/19/2019, we will begin showing some users...
I recently received this message from an admin:
Hello! You are receiving this message because you have followed a user profile in the past.
Starting on 08/19/2019, we will begin showing some users new followers of their profile. In about 3 months, all users will be able to see all the usernames of their followers, including follows that were done in the past, while the user profile feature was in beta. Please take a moment to check your subscriptions list (where followed users also appear) to ensure that if you follow someone, you are comfortable with them being aware of this.
It's a rather big change and a shame that they are making reddit more and more like the rest of social media.
39 votes -
Security researcher successfully used false GDPR "right of access" requests to obtain extensive personal information about someone else
8 votes -
Twitter announces bugs in their advertising settings that resulted in sharing and using users' data even if they explicitly opted out
8 votes -
How would one go about removing Google from one's life?
I have an android phone and my main email is a gmail. I'd like to somehow de-googlefy myself if at all possible. I don't have facebook so that isn't really a concern.
35 votes -
How Facebook failed to break into hardware: The untold story of Building 8
9 votes -
Sneaker and fashion marketplace StockX was hacked, with almost seven million records stolen
9 votes -
Apple globally suspends program in which humans review users' Siri queries
11 votes -
Everything cops say about Amazon's Ring is scripted or approved by Ring
18 votes -
The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information has banned Google from listening to Google Home recordings in the EU for three months
9 votes -
How Not to Regulate Social Media: Proposed privacy and bot laws don’t target real problems, and would cause needless harm
4 votes -
What are your thoughts on the Blloc phone?
10 votes -
What you should know about the Equifax data breach settlement
16 votes -
FTC imposes $5 billion penalty and sweeping new privacy restrictions on Facebook
6 votes -
As authoritarian governments surveil the internet, open source projects decide how to respond
7 votes -
What you should know about the Equifax data breach settlement
7 votes -
My browser, the spy: How extensions slurped up browsing histories of 4M users
15 votes -
Navigating the tension between deplatforming and privacy?
There's a conflict in my mind that I would like others' perspective on. On one hand, I like privacy. For example, I use Signal as my primary messaging service because I like the idea that the...
There's a conflict in my mind that I would like others' perspective on.
On one hand, I like privacy. For example, I use Signal as my primary messaging service because I like the idea that the end-to-end encryption keeps my conversations private. It feels right that someone shouldn't be able to look over my shoulder when I'm communicating one-on-one with friends and family.
On the other hand, I also like deplatforming. I believe strongly in the idea that inhibiting communities that espouse fascist or other anti-social beliefs is a key lever in keeping their ideas from gaining social traction.
Unfortunately, I feel like there's a tension between these two ideals. Private platforms can conceivably allow for the inviolable platforming of hateful groups because they can then exist without social oversight or accountability. But maintaining some sort of oversight also feels wrong to me because it's fundamentally invasive?
I don't know what to make of this, as I do think we should be encouraging greater privacy on an internet where our actions are being scooped up wholesale for the benefit of large tech companies, but I also worry about how increased privacy measures will enable bad actors. Anyone have thoughts on this or want to help me sort this out?
9 votes -
The PGP Problem
12 votes -
Florida DMV sells personal information for drivers and ID cardholders to private companies and marketing firms, making over $77M in 2017
18 votes -
Gotta catch 'em all: Understanding how IMSI-catchers exploit cell networks
4 votes -
Microsoft 365, Google cloud and Apple cloud deemed illegal in Schools of Hesse
13 votes -
US FTC approves Facebook fine of about $5 billion
22 votes -
We read 150 privacy policies. They were an incomprehensible disaster.
17 votes -
Google employees are systematically listening to audio files recorded by Google Home smart speakers and the Google Assistant smartphone app
23 votes -
Gotta catch 'em all: Understanding how IMSI-catchers exploit cell networks
6 votes