A new bill would force internet companies in the USA to spy on their users for the Drug Enforcement Administration
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Are phones really listening to us at all times?
Had an interesting conversation with my colleagues this morning. We were pretty split whether phones listen to us for advertising or not. On one hand, we anecdotally see Google news and ad...
Had an interesting conversation with my colleagues this morning. We were pretty split whether phones listen to us for advertising or not.
On one hand, we anecdotally see Google news and ad suggestions based on what we say. We know our mics are on at all times for voice assistant and music detection. But we also read online talking about how there is no evidence about the phones recording us. It's hard to trust anything nowadays.
67 votes -
France passes bill to allow police to remotely activate phone camera, microphone, and GPS, in order to spy on people
79 votes -
No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Ireland's Data Protection Commission says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched there
48 votes -
Stop using Google Analytics, warns Sweden’s privacy watchdog, as it issues over $1M in fines
28 votes -
Meta loses appeal on how it harvests data in Germany
26 votes -
Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it can use public data for training AI models
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
42 votes -
The US is openly stockpiling dirt on all its citizens
25 votes -
Reflections on ten years past the Edward Snowden revelations
10 votes -
Here is the FBI’s contract to buy mass internet data
7 votes -
Once praised for its generous social safety net, Denmark now collects troves of data on welfare claimants
10 votes -
US Supreme Court declines to hear Wikimedia Foundation’s challenge to National Security Agency mass surveillance
8 votes -
Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook
7 votes -
Students rebel against heat-sensing crotch monitor surveillance devices
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
21 votes -
Propaganda, censorship, and surveillance are all inherent attributes of information monopoly
10 votes -
Revealed: US Military bought mass monitoring tool that includes internet browsing, email data
11 votes -
A dad took photos of his naked toddler for the doctor. Google flagged him as a criminal.
14 votes -
The code the FBI used to wiretap the world
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Coinbase is selling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement a suite of features used to track and identify cryptocurrency users
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.
18 votes -
American phone-tracking firm demo’d surveillance powers by spying on Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency
11 votes -
Mozilla Rally - Data collection for research about data collection
9 votes -
My journey down the rabbit hole of every journalist’s favorite app, Otter.ai
4 votes -
Where a thousand digital eyes keep watch over the elderly
3 votes -
Google releases “disable 2g” feature for new Android smartphones
19 votes -
Chinese province targets journalists, foreign students with planned new surveillance system
8 votes -
A battle among homeowners in Colorado shows how license plate scanners are reshaping American neighborhoods
10 votes -
Researchers who built similar system explain why Apple's CSAM scanning system is dangerous
10 votes -
In leak investigation, tech giants are caught between courts and customers
9 votes -
Heat List - Chicago PD automated policing program got this man shot twice
10 votes -
EFF Surveillance Self-Defense - Privacy breakdown of mobile phones
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
9 votes -
I spent a year deleting my address online, then it popped up on Bing
20 votes -
Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
18 votes -
Time to pardon Edward Snowden?
14 votes -
Amazon Alexa for Residential will let the voice assistant power apartment complexes
15 votes -
Inside Amazon’s secret program to spy on workers’ private Facebook groups
7 votes -
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - A new, short book by Cory Doctorow that looks at big tech as a monopoly problem
18 votes -
Geofence warrants - Smartphone location data is giving US law enforcement new surveillance tools
6 votes -
Planet of cops
2 votes -
Data isn't just being collected from your phone. It's being used to score you
22 votes -
Why is a tech executive installing security cameras around San Francisco?
10 votes -
Hundreds arrested after European law enforcement agencies monitored over 100 million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by criminals
20 votes -
Bill requires employers to keep implanted microchips voluntary for workers
17 votes -
We mapped where Customs and Border Protection drones are flying in the US and beyond
8 votes -
Schools turn to surveillance tech to prevent Covid-19 spread: "We are very much interested in the automated tracking of students"
6 votes -
Black Lives Matter protesters aren’t being tracked with Covid-19 surveillance tech. Not yet
6 votes -
Here are the Minneapolis police's tools to identify protesters
14 votes