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35 votes
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The FBI’s new tactic: Catching suspects with push alerts
32 votes -
How the Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets—and Vladimir Putin
29 votes -
You've just been fucked by psyops; the death of the internet
20 votes -
Privacy win: EU Parliament decides that your private messages must not be scanned
34 votes -
AI cameras took over one small American town. Now they're everywhere
30 votes -
We know who you are
20 votes -
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’
24 votes -
Inside ShadowDragon, the tool that lets ICE monitor pregnancy tracking sites and Fortnite players
23 votes -
Probe reveals previously secret Israeli spyware that infects targets via ads
36 votes -
How “little tech” is driving workplace surveillance—and what can be done to push back
29 votes -
Apple threatens to pull FaceTime and iMessage in the UK over proposed surveillance law changes
71 votes -
US federal aid is supercharging local Washington state police surveillance tech
11 votes -
How Chinese surveillance methods are going global
12 votes -
A new bill would force internet companies in the USA to spy on their users for the Drug Enforcement Administration
45 votes -
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 -
Why we don’t recommend Ring cameras: They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes
29 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 -
Criminalization of encryption: The 8 December case
43 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 NSA mass surveillance
8 votes -
CES: We visit the tech industry's scary vision for the future
the It Could Happen Here podcast did a 3-part series on this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, and I thought it was some of the most nuanced and interesting coverage I've seen. 1: The...
the It Could Happen Here podcast did a 3-part series on this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, and I thought it was some of the most nuanced and interesting coverage I've seen.
1: The dead future of Big Tech - host Robert Evans got his start in journalism doing tech reporting more than a decade ago, including covering CES. he reflects on how the show, and the tech industry as a whole, has changed over that time.
2: The good parts of our future tech dystopia - Robert and co-host Garrison talk about the good / promising parts of what they saw at the show
3: We visit the tech industry's scary vision for the future - discussion of the creepy / less good stuff they saw at CES, including lots of surveillance cameras & robots
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
7 votes -
Coinbase is selling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) 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 CIA and NSA
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 -
Our post-privacy world
7 votes -
A battle among homeowners in Colorado shows how license plate scanners are reshaping American neighborhoods
10 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 -
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