Promiscuous cookies and their impending death via the SameSite policy privacy security internet Article 2104 words 10 votes
Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands privacy Article 3179 words 35 votes
Messaging app ToTok has been removed from the Apple and Google app stores following claims the United Arab Emirates government was using it to spy on people privacy android apple.app store google.play Article 1762 words 12 votes
What we know about you when you click on this article—Vox has a pretty typical privacy policy. That doesn’t make it great. privacy security Article 1834 words, published Dec 10 2019 11 votes
One nation, tracked : An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry privacy Article 4390 words 15 votes
NIST study evaluates effects of race, age, sex on face recognition software - Findings included that many algorithms had false positive rates 10 to 100 times higher for non-Caucasians privacy Article 1079 words 7 votes
FTC weighs seeking preliminary injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns related to how its apps interact facebook social media privacy Article 915 words 3 votes
How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer google privacy Article 1122 words 28 votes
Behind the one-way mirror: A deep dive into the technology of corporate surveillance privacy Article 13 070 words 9 votes
The citizen scientist who finds killers from her couch: How CeCe Moore is using her genetic knowledge to expose murderers privacy Link 8 votes
Private Internet Access VPN acquired by Kape Technologies for US$127.6 million privacy Article 405 words 30 votes
A new tracking technique using CNAME aliases to circumvent third-party cookie restrictions is blockable using a Firefox DNS API, but not in Chrome privacy security Article 1016 words 18 votes
Android exploit of system camera apps enabled a malicious app to record and upload photos, video and audio with only "storage" permission android security privacy Article 1463 words 10 votes
Firefox’s fight for the future of the web: With Google’s Chrome dominating the market, not-for-profit rival Mozilla is staking a comeback on its dedication to privacy privacy internet browsers Article 1821 words 49 votes
Google is an emerging health-care juggernaut, and privacy laws weren’t written to keep up privacy google Article 461 words 14 votes
Google’s secret ‘Project Nightingale’ gathers personal health data on millions of Americans google privacy Article 354 words 12 votes
YouTube is requiring all new and existing videos be marked as "Made for Kids" if they're intended for children, which will disable personalized ads, end screens, comments, and more privacy social media Video 6:44 16 votes
Interpreting GDPR data requests: Why does British Airways need to know that I'm 98% LGBT? privacy Article 1180 words, published Sep 17 2019 10 votes
Give Firefox a chance for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet privacy security browsers Article 1357 words 27 votes
Almost 7000 pages of leaked Facebook documents show how they leveraged user data to fight rivals and help friends facebook privacy social media Article 875 words 15 votes
Two former Twitter employees charged with spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia social media privacy Article 439 words 9 votes
ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says privacy internet Article 1360 words 15 votes
Chinese professor sues wildlife park after it introduces facial recognition entry system privacy Link 6 votes
Australia's idiotic war on porn returns, this time using facial recognition internet privacy Article 476 words 16 votes
Think you’re anonymous online? A third of popular websites are ‘fingerprinting’ you. privacy browsers Article 2208 words 18 votes
NSO exploited WhatsApp to hack at least 1400 phones and spy on top government officials at US allies facebook privacy security Article 1077 words 16 votes
Australia wants to use face recognition for porn age verification privacy security Article 416 words 22 votes
Fifty ways to leak your data: An exploration of apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system android privacy Article 1343 words, published Sep 25 2019 12 votes
Google’s auto-delete tools are practically worthless for privacy google privacy Article 1218 words 9 votes
An analysis of the implications of using Google's G Suite products in a newsroom google privacy security Article 2375 words 10 votes
Facebook's dating service is full of red flags facebook privacy social media Article 740 words, published Sep 6 2019 19 votes
US Attorney General and officials from UK and Australia will ask Facebook to halt plans for end-to-end encryption in its messaging apps facebook privacy Article 525 words 10 votes
Social Networks or Social Nightmares? with Roger McNamee, Max Schrems and Evgeny Morozov social media facebook privacy Video 1:37:43, published Sep 30 2019 3 votes
DoorDash data breach - Affects approximately 4.9 million consumers, Dashers, and merchants who joined before April 6, 2018 privacy security Link 12 votes
Centralised DNS-over-HTTPS is bad for privacy, in 2019 and beyond privacy internet Article 2677 words 7 votes
Ring says it doesn't use facial recognition, but it has “a head of face recognition research” amazon privacy security.home Article 1200 words 16 votes
Facebook has suspended tens of thousands of apps as part of their ongoing investigation into data misuse facebook privacy social media Article 947 words 8 votes
Facebook’s suspension of ‘tens of thousands’ of apps reveals wider privacy issues social media facebook privacy Article 483 words 5 votes
University of Alabama uses location-tracking phone app to know who leaves football games early privacy Article 1514 words 8 votes
Firefox’s test pilot program returns with Firefox Private Network beta privacy Article 873 words 11 votes