privacy The Pentagon has a device that can identify people without seeing their face Mark Frauenfelder
privacy Private Join and Compute is Google's free/open source tool to allow "mulitparty computation" of encrypted data without decryption Cory Doctorow
privacy Empirical review of privacy policies reveals that they are "incomprehensible" drivel Cory Doctorow
Business Facebook execs are worried that Zuck's emails show he never took his FTC privacy obligations seriously Cory Doctorow
privacy Mary Meeker's 2019 Internet Trends: stalled growth, security dumpster-fires, more online education and fear of regulation Cory Doctorow
law A deep dive into stalkerware's creepy marketing, illegal privacy invasions, and terrible security Cory Doctorow
Business Blood testing giant Quest Diagnostics lost 12,000,000 patients' personal, financial and medical data Cory Doctorow
happy mutants The New York Privacy Act goes even farther than California's privacy legislation Cory Doctorow
security Study: Popular iOS apps use 'background app refresh' to send your location and IP address Xeni Jardin
privacy Snap employees used the company's internal 'SnapLion' tool to access Snapchat user data Xeni Jardin
happy mutants Los Angeles! Come see me at Exposition Park library tonight talking about Big Tech, monopolies, mind control and the right of technological self-determination Cory Doctorow
privacy Americans believe that they should own the mountains of data produced by their cars, but they don't Cory Doctorow
privacy Facebook hands hundreds of contractors in India access to its users' private messages and private Instagram posts in order to help train an AI Cory Doctorow
