An interesting study into how ads are fingerprinting your devices
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When Myspace was king, employees abused a tool called ‘overlord’ to spy on users
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I’m a journalist but didn't fully realize the terrible power of US border officials until they violated my rights and privacy
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When do you use a VPN?
I try to be privacy focused. I don't use social media, I use Firefox with adblock and tracker protection, with duck duck go as my search engine. I also pay for proton vpn. My question is, when...
I try to be privacy focused. I don't use social media, I use Firefox with adblock and tracker protection, with duck duck go as my search engine. I also pay for proton vpn. My question is, when should I use it? I use it when I'm on open networks on my phone, but that's about it. Do you guys run it 24/7 on your computer?
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YouTube under US Federal investigation over allegations it violates children’s privacy
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The new wilderness
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In court, Facebook blames users for destroying their own right to privacy
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Masks, cash and apps: How Hong Kong’s protesters find ways to outwit the surveillance state
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Data bleeding everywhere: A story of period trackers
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Nextcloud signs public letter, opposing German plan to force decryption of chat
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WeChat is watching
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Chrome Incognito mode no longer detectable in Chrome 76
@paul_irish: Chrome Incognito mode has been detectable for years, due to the FileSystem API implementation. As of Chrome 76, this is fixed. Apologies to the "detect private mode" scripts out there. 💐
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Ring is using its customers’ doorbell camera video for ads. It says it's allowed to
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iOS 13 now shows you a map of where apps have been tracking you
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The tricky ethics of using YouTube videos for academic research
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How does Apple (privately) find your offline devices?
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'It's time for us to watch them': App lets you spy on Alexa and the rest of your smart devices
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Tech veganism
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Apple's audacity, and what yesterday's WWDC announcements demonstrate about their future plans
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US requiring social media information from visa applicants, permanent residents and naturalized citizens
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"Betrayed by an app she had never heard of" - How TrueCaller is endangering journalists
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Reddit user requested all the personal info Epic Games has on him and Epic sent that info to a random person
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Facebook's Zuckerberg and Sandberg will disregard subpoenas to appear in front of Canada-hosted International Grand Committee on Big Data, Privacy and Democracy
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Metadata Investigation: Inside Hacking Team
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The rise of data dictatorships
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On exercising your rights in privacy policies
@swipp_it: 1/ So, I guess my new "hobby" over the past few years has become reading terms of service/privacy policies for things I want to use and then trying to enforce my rights as laid out in those policies. Unsurprisingly, companies are often not certain how to respond to this.
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Snapchat employees abused data access to spy on users
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Tor Browser for Android 8.5 offers mobile users privacy boost
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Apple arms web browser privacy torpedo, points it directly at Google's advertising model
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Why shaky data security protocols for apps put LGBTQ people at risk
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SensorID - Using smartphone sensor calibration data to generate a globally unique device fingerprint
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Jeremy was fired for refusing fingerprinting at work. His case led to an 'extraordinary' unfair dismissal ruling.
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This genealogy database helped solve dozens of crimes. But its new privacy rules will restrict access by cops.
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Finally, US child data privacy could get much-needed reform in new bill
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Why do people not like telemetry?
I often see people complaining about telemetry in things like Firefox and the like, but I've never understood why it was a big problem for your privacy. If it's anonymous and helps the developers...
I often see people complaining about telemetry in things like Firefox and the like, but I've never understood why it was a big problem for your privacy. If it's anonymous and helps the developers do their job, what's wrong with it?
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Why WhatsApp will never be secure
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Angry Birds and the end of privacy
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San Francisco has banned government and police use of face surveillance technology
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The AI supply chain runs on ignorance: Tech companies often fail to tell users how their data will be employed. Sometimes, the firms can’t even anticipate it themselves.
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Maciej Ceglowski's Senate testimony on privacy rights and data collection in a digital economy
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Samsung spilled SmartThings app source code and secret keys
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How WhatsApp leaked my private information to advertisers
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How facial recognition became a routine policing tool in America
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In contrast to Facebook, Google seems to be leaning into the message that they have all your data, and emphasizing how that allows them to make your life easier
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Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019
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Mozilla Research Call: Tune up Tor for Integration and Scale
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The dangers of in-game data collection
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Tracking cursor movement in browsers without JavaScript enabled
@davywtf: Here's a PoC that confirms my hunch. *Neither* of these windows use JavaScript but the position of the cursor in the left window is sent to the right window. This works on Tor Browser with JS disabled. https://t.co/cnfOy5OkUj
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TikTok might be a Chinese Cambridge Analytica-scale privacy threat
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Facebook faces a big penalty, but US regulators are split over how big
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