You’ve probably heard about big data breaches over the years. They’re in the…
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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A portrait of your stolen identity in data breaches
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Data warehouse at the supermarket
Grocery stores with loyalty programs collect data on what and when you buy…
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Sleuthing for birth dates, with just TikTok profiles as clue
TikTok user notkahnjunior figures out people’s birth dates through the psuedo-privacy of the…
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Luxury surveillance
Chris Gilliard, for The Atlantic, describes self-surveillance that people pay for in exchange…
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Border enforcement data collection
Drew Harwell, for The Washington Post, reporting on a growing database and who…
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Open cameras and AI to locate Instagram photos
Dries Depoorter recorded video from open cameras for a week and scraped Instagram…
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Tracked while reading about being tracked at work
While reading this NYT article, by Jodi Kantor and Arya Sundaram, on the…
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Where the data from your car flows
Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng, for The Markup, identified 37 companies that collect…
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Period trackers and legal implications
Given the current restrictions in the U.S., Kendra Albert, Maggie Delano, and Emma…
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Facebook doesn’t seem to fully know how their data is used internally
Lorenzo Franceschi reporting for Motherboard on a leaked Facebook document:
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Tracking the CIA to demo phone tracking
Sam Biddle and Jack Poulson for The Intercept reporting on Anomaly Six, a…
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Tax services want your data
Taxes are due today in the U.S. (yay). Geoffrey A. Fowler for The…
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Unregulated location data industry
For The Markup, continuing their reports on data privacy, Alfred Ng and Jon…
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Crisis Text Line and data sharing
Crisis Text Line was sharing data with a for-profit business started by its…
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Anonymized data is rarely anonymous
Justin Sherman for Wired points out the farce that is anonymized data:
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Virtual proctoring simulation
Many colleges use virtual proctoring software in an effort to reduce cheating on…
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Family safety app sells location data to third parties
Life360 is a service that lets families keep track of where members are…
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Optimizing retail spaces
Patrick Sisson for The New York Times reports on the growing popularity of…
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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…
