Lorenzo Franceschi reporting for Motherboard on a leaked Facebook document:
“We do 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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Facebook doesn’t seem to fully know how their data is used internally
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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…
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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…
