Digital assistants offer convenience, but they also offer continuous surveillance, and it’s not…
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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Build a parasite to block your digital assistant
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Apps gather your location and then sell the data
The New York Times takes a closer look at the data that apps…
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Reduced privacy risk in exchange for accuracy in the Census count
Mark Hansen for The Upshot describes the search for balance between individual privacy…
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Millions of internet-connected TVs track viewing habits
Sapna Maheshwari for The New York Times on Samba TV software running on…
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When surveillance turns into stalking
Many surveillance apps cater to parents who want to keep tabs on their…
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Every document copy stored on used digital photocopiers
CBS News picked up four used photocopiers and looked at the hard drives.…
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Facebook logs calls and text messages
Woo. Woo. Alex Hern reporting for The Guardian:
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What Facebook and Google know about you
Facebook and Google (among other companies) know a lot about you through the…
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Steve Jobs on data privacy
From 2010, Steve Jobs on data privacy:…
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Predictive policing algorithms used secretly in New Orleans
False positives. Over-policing. Bias. This isn’t stuff you just mess around with.
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Smart surveilled city
Smart home. Smart city. They have a positive ring to it. But we assume everyone uses it only for good things.
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The personal data you generate when you book a flight
Every time we book a flight, a Passenger Name Record is generated and…
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Secret army bases seen in public fitness tracking map
Last year, fitness tracking app Strava released a high detail map of public…
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800 pages of Tinder data
Judith Duportail, writing for the Guardian, requested her personal data from dating service…
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Uber got hacked and then paid the hackers $100k to not tell anyone
This is fine. Totally normal. Eric Newcomer reporting for Bloomberg:
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Google collected Android users’ location without permission
Keith Collins reporting for Quartz:
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Roomba selling maps of home interiors
Newer Roomba vacuums form a map of your house to more efficiently clean…
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Infinite Twitter ad campaign, based on data profiles
As you probably know, Twitter (and all social media) collects data about you…
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Love in the age of data, without data
We live in a time when personal data leaves digital traces of what…
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Data Selfie: Chrome extension logs what Facebook learns about you
Facebook logs data about you and how you use their application. I know…
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