France passes bill to allow police to remotely activate phone camera, microphone, and GPS, in order to spy on people
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Apple threatens to pull FaceTime and iMessage in the UK over proposed surveillance law changes
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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.
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No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Ireland's Data Protection Commission says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched there
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A new bill would force internet companies in the USA to spy on their users for the Drug Enforcement Administration
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Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it can use public data for training AI models
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Criminalization of encryption: The 8 December case
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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
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Probe reveals previously secret Israeli spyware that infects targets via ads
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How American evangelicals use digital surveillance to target the unconverted
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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
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Privacy win: EU Parliament decides that your private messages must not be scanned
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The FBI’s new tactic: Catching American suspects with push alerts
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AI cameras took over one small American town. Now they're everywhere
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How the Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets—and Vladimir Putin
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How “little tech” is driving workplace surveillance—and what can be done to push back
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Why we don’t recommend Ring cameras: They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes
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Stop using Google Analytics, warns Sweden’s privacy watchdog, as it issues over $1M in fines
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Meta loses appeal on how it harvests data in Germany
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Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan
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Google and Mastercard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales
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The US is openly stockpiling dirt on all its citizens
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San Francisco has banned government and police use of face surveillance technology
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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’
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Inside ShadowDragon, the tool that lets ICE monitor pregnancy tracking sites and Fortnite players
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The secretive company that might end privacy as we know it
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I was wrong about Google and Facebook: There’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all)
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Surveillance capitalism has led us into a dystopia
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Data isn't just being collected from your phone. It's being used to score you
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Exposed Chinese database shows depth of surveillance state
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Google shut out privacy and security teams from secret China project
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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
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Box CEO Aaron Levie says mistrust of Google and Facebook is a ‘contagion’ that could spread to every tech company
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You've just been fucked by psyops; the death of the internet
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We know who you are
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Academic surveillance software company Proctorio is suing a researcher critical of them, seeking to obtain private communications
@Ian Linkletter: Proctorio is expanding their lawsuit against me and I urgently need your help.On the eve of the BC Supreme Court hearing to dismiss their lawsuit, Proctorio has applied for a court order allowing them to pry into my PRIVATE communications.Our response: https://t.co/jJdQ47P8Pe pic.twitter.com/leCr8yevsx
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I spent a year deleting my address online, then it popped up on Bing
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Hundreds arrested after European law enforcement agencies monitored over 100 million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by criminals
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Google releases “disable 2g” feature for new Android smartphones
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Pentagon working on tech to identify protestors with bad/non-existent opsec
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Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire. Unions might not be the tech giant’s biggest labor threat.
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EFF Surveillance Self-Defense - Privacy breakdown of mobile phones
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Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
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How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - A new, short book by Cory Doctorow that looks at big tech as a monopoly problem
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Employee monitoring software surges as companies send staff home
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Walmart's newly patented technology for eavesdropping on workers presents privacy concerns
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Bill requires employers to keep implanted microchips voluntary for workers
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The real reason why Facebook and Google won’t change
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Utah Attorney General will suspend use of a massive surveillance system after reports that the founder of the company was once a participant in the KKK and was involved in a synagogue shooting
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The uncensored library: A digital library containing suppressed articles, built inside Minecraft to bypass internet surveillance and censorship
16 votes