TikTok user notkahnjunior figures out people’s birth dates through the psuedo-privacy of 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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Sleuthing for birth dates, with just TikTok profiles as clue
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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…
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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…
