Patrick Sisson for The New York Times reports on the growing popularity of…
privacy
When data is flowing, it’s important we keep watch on who has access to our identities, activities, and the things and people we love.
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Optimizing retail spaces
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Your location for sale
Companies collect and aggregate location data from millions of people’s phones. Then that…
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Seeing how devices talk to each other
Your computer connects to your router, which connects to your modem. Your printer…
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A short film on giving up privacy, for better or worse
We know what you did during lockdown is a short fiction film by…
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When you don’t own your face
For The New York Times, Kashmir Hill describes the implications of facial recognition…
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Public agencies using facial recognition software without oversight
An anonymous source supplied BuzzFeed News with usage data from Clearview AI, the…
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Tracking Capitol rioters through their mobile phone data
For NYT Opinion, Charlie Warzel and Stuart A. Thompson returned to the topic…
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U.S. military buys location data from apps
Joseph Cox, reporting for Motherboard:
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Student surveillance and online proctoring
To combat cheating during online exams, many schools have utilized services that try…
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Blacklight, a tool to see how the websites you visit are tracking you
Companies are tracking what you do online. You know this. But it can…
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Randomization to preserve anonymity
Adam Pearce and Ellen Jiang for Google’s PAIR, explain how granular data can…
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Hidden trackers on your phone
Sara Morrison for Recode:
Then there’s Cuebiq, which collected location data through its… -
Protecting your mobile data and privacy while at a protest
Maddy Varner reporting for The Markup:
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Privacy algorithm could lead to Census undercount of small towns
To increase anonymity in the Census records, the bureau is testing an algorithm…
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To get your personal data, provide more personal data
File another one under the sounds-good-on-paper-but-really-challenging-in-practice. Kashmir Hill, for The New York Times,…
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One leaked file, the location of 12 million smartphones
A file leaked to The New York Times contained location traces of 12…
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Amazon stores voice recordings indefinitely
Alfred Ng for CNET:
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Readability of privacy policies for big tech companies
For The New York Times, Kevin Litman-Navarro plotted the length and readability of…
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Facial recognition machine for $60
For The New York Times, Sahil Chinoy on privacy and how easy it…
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Build a parasite to block your digital assistant
Digital assistants offer convenience, but they also offer continuous surveillance, and it’s not…
