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9 votes
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Facebook - An update on our use of face recognition
15 votes -
Can data die? Why one of the internet's oldest images lives on without its subject's consent.
27 votes -
The future of PrivacyTools
17 votes -
New study raises fresh ‘privacy concerns’ about data sharing from Android mobile phones
6 votes -
Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hacked for five years
27 votes -
Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other tech firms are pressing lawmakers to stop prosecutors from secretly snooping on private accounts
3 votes -
Facebook paid FTC $4.9B more than required to shield Mark Zuckerberg, lawsuit alleges
11 votes -
Billed as the most secure phone on the planet, An0m became a viral sensation in the underworld. There was just one problem for anyone using it for criminal means: it was run by the police
14 votes -
Los Angeles Police Department told to collect the social media information of every civilian they interview, including individuals who are not arrested or accused of a crime
14 votes -
ProtonMail: Important clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist
33 votes -
Apple delays the rollout of its plans to scan iPhones for child exploitation images
15 votes -
Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources
19 votes -
An open letter against Apple's privacy-invasive content scanning technology
20 votes -
Apple's plan to "think different" about encryption opens a backdoor to your private life
15 votes -
Apple introduces expanded protections for children, including on-device scanning of images to detect child abuse imagery
24 votes -
Diners beware: That meal may cost you your privacy and security
8 votes -
Venmo gets more private—but it’s still not fully safe
5 votes -
The privacy war raging within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), where normally-secretive tech companies are wrangling over the future of your data — and their own power — in plain sight
14 votes -
The day I almost decided to hold the press to account
8 votes -
Trust in software, an all time low
26 votes -
New ad-free search subscription service: Neeva
6 votes -
LinkedIn breach reportedly exposes data of 92% of users, including inferred salaries
13 votes -
Differential privacy code removed from Chromium
In a discussion on Hacker News, Jonathan Mayer pointed out that the differential privacy code was removed from Chromium. It looks like they finished doing this in February. I haven't seen any...
In a discussion on Hacker News, Jonathan Mayer pointed out that the differential privacy code was removed from Chromium. It looks like they finished doing this in February.
I haven't seen any announcement, discussion, or explanation of this based on a brief web search, so I figured I'd note it here.
At about the time this process finished, there was a Google blog post about how they're still using it in other products.
We first deployed our world-class differential privacy anonymization technology in Chrome nearly seven years ago and are continually expanding its use across our products including Google Maps and the Assistant.
(If you read this quickly, you might think it's still used in Chrome.)
Reading between the lines, I suspect that some folks at Google are still advocating for more usage of differential privacy, but they lost an important customer. Why that happened is a mystery.
11 votes -
How to make your data harder to find online
7 votes -
Why we should end the data economy
7 votes -
Amazon devices in the US will automatically join the Amazon Sidewalk mesh network and start sharing internet with neighbors on June 10th, unless opted out
30 votes -
King County, WA is first in the country to ban government use of facial recognition software
15 votes -
Our digital pasts weren’t supposed to be weaponized like this
17 votes -
Introducing Firefox’s new Site Isolation security architecture
19 votes -
Censorship, surveillance, and profits: A hard bargain for Apple in China
4 votes -
Terms and Conditions Apply
9 votes -
Huge Eufy privacy breach shows live and recorded cam feeds to strangers
5 votes -
Here’s what the opt-in app tracking in iOS 14.5 means to marketers — and how they might respond
11 votes -
We found Joe Biden’s secret Venmo. Here’s why that’s a privacy nightmare for everyone.
17 votes -
I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress; here’s what happened
23 votes -
Ransomware gang threatens release of DC police records
10 votes -
Australian Criminal Intelligence Agency looking to expand it's intelligence gathering powers by claiming that criminals use encrypted platforms 'almost exclusively'
19 votes -
EFF Surveillance Self-Defense - Privacy breakdown of mobile phones
18 votes -
96% of US users opt out of app tracking in iOS 14.5
35 votes -
The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
26 votes -
They told their therapists everything. Hackers leaked it all.
15 votes -
Team Navalny apologizes after database of email addresses registered for planned protest leaks online
7 votes -
In defense of Signal
12 votes -
Am I FLoCed?
22 votes -
I called off my wedding. The internet will never forget
24 votes -
533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
29 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 -
What does your gaze reveal about you? On the privacy implications of eye tracking
10 votes -
Pasco County’s Sheriff must end its targeted child harassment program
11 votes