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6 votes
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Apple's audacity, and what yesterday's WWDC announcements demonstrate about their future plans
12 votes -
'It's time for us to watch them': App lets you spy on Alexa and the rest of your smart devices
11 votes -
US requiring social media information from visa applicants, permanent residents and naturalized citizens
15 votes -
"Betrayed by an app she had never heard of" - How TrueCaller is endangering journalists
17 votes -
Facebook's Zuckerberg and Sandberg will disregard subpoenas to appear in front of Canada-hosted International Grand Committee on Big Data, Privacy and Democracy
13 votes -
The rise of data dictatorships
4 votes -
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.
11 votes -
Snapchat employees abused data access to spy on users
11 votes -
SensorID - Using smartphone sensor calibration data to generate a globally unique device fingerprint
3 votes -
Jeremy was fired for refusing fingerprinting at work. His case led to an 'extraordinary' unfair dismissal ruling.
13 votes -
Finally, US child data privacy could get much-needed reform in new bill
6 votes -
Why WhatsApp will never be secure
16 votes -
Angry Birds and the end of privacy
10 votes -
San Francisco has banned government and police use of face surveillance technology
25 votes -
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.
6 votes -
Samsung spilled SmartThings app source code and secret keys
5 votes -
Maciej Ceglowski's Senate testimony on privacy rights and data collection in a digital economy
11 votes -
How WhatsApp leaked my private information to advertisers
14 votes -
How facial recognition became a routine policing tool in America
6 votes -
Mozilla Research Call: Tune up Tor for Integration and Scale
6 votes -
Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019
19 votes -
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
25 votes -
TikTok might be a Chinese Cambridge Analytica-scale privacy threat
13 votes -
Facebook faces a big penalty, but US regulators are split over how big
15 votes -
Introducing auto-delete controls for your Location History and activity data
7 votes -
How lobbyists rewrote Washington state’s privacy law
6 votes -
Ireland is blocking the world on data privacy - it's the designated lead regulator for many companies under EU privacy law, but it's in bed with the companies it should be regulating
9 votes -
Facebook's email-harvesting practice is under investigation in NY
7 votes -
Joint investigation of Facebook, Inc. by the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia
9 votes -
It’s Complicated: Mozilla’s 2019 Internet Health Report
8 votes -
The only way to rein in Big Tech is to treat them as a public service
18 votes -
Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity, with severe penalties
15 votes -
Facebook says it 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5 million people's email contacts without their consent
22 votes -
Why you can no longer get lost in the crowd
12 votes -
Popular apps in Google's Play Store are abusing permissions and committing ad fraud
9 votes -
Silicon Valley-funded privacy think tanks fight in DC to unravel state-level consumer privacy protections
5 votes -
Behind every robot is a human
6 votes -
What are the arguments against letting user data be collected?
It's obviously bad when "real" data like full names and credit card info leaks, but most data companies collect is probably email address and some anonymous things like which buttons and when the...
It's obviously bad when "real" data like full names and credit card info leaks, but most data companies collect is probably email address and some anonymous things like which buttons and when the user clicked.
Nevertheless, such data collection, tracking and telemetry is considered quite bad among power users. I don't support those practices either. But I'm struggling to consolidate my arguments agaist data collection. The one I'm confident about is effects on performance and battery life on mobile devices, but why else it's bad I'm not sure.
What are your arguments? Why is it bad when a company X knows what anonymous user Y did and made money on that info? What's the good response to anyone who asks why I'm doing the "privacy things"?
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Chicago’s ankle monitors can call and record kids without their consent
7 votes -
Amazon workers are listening to what you tell Alexa
16 votes -
Protections against fingerprinting and cryptocurrency mining available in Firefox Nightly and Beta
16 votes -
VPN - A Very Precarious Narrative
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How to increase your chances of finding a hidden camera
14 votes -
[SOLVED] I might switch my PC media player from VLC to something else due to potential data leaks. What other media player should I choose if I do so?
edit: Problem solved, davidb informed me about the vulnerability in version 3.0.4, and that it is fixed in the new version 3.0.6. Somehow Spyhunter thinks i still use 3.0.4, which in turn is the...
edit: Problem solved, davidb informed me about the vulnerability in version 3.0.4, and that it is fixed in the new version 3.0.6. Somehow Spyhunter thinks i still use 3.0.4, which in turn is the actual problem i had with Spyhunter, not VLC.
Spyhunter 5 has been bothering me about potential data leaks from vlc media player. The vulnerability is generally based on publicly available information.
It would be a shame if i have to switch, been using vlc for as long as i remember. It is probably the best media player out there, but i hate sharing my personal data in any way or form.Spyhunter msg:
- Severity: Medium, VLC media player (Version 3.0.4)
- The CAF demuxer in modules/demux/cad.c in VideoLan media player 3.0.4 may read memory from an uninitialized pointer when processing magic cookies in Caf files, because a ReadKukiChunk() cast converts a return value to an unsigned int, even if that value is negative. This could result in a denial of service and/or potential infoleak.
Is this even anything to care about? I have updated VLC including removing cashe and still get the alert. Is a rollback another option perhaps?
5 votes - Severity: Medium, VLC media player (Version 3.0.4)
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Your very public Amazon shopping history is a window onto your soul
11 votes -
Millions of Facebook records were exposed on public Amazon server
14 votes -
Losing Face: Two More Cases of Third-Party Facebook App Data Exposure
8 votes -
‘Beyond Sketchy’: Facebook Demanding Some New Users’ Email Passwords
14 votes -
Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to fix the internet. Don't take him seriously.
7 votes