For Bloomberg, Tanaz Meghjani, Dhruv Mehrotra, and Surya Mattu report sharing of private…
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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State healthcare sites sending data to tech companies
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Writing style as your digital fingerprint
Apparently, the words we use and how we structure our sentences in writing…
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Revealing who you are to chatbots
Using inference with what you ask, how you write, and your phrasing, a…
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Mapping the unmapped Google Maps city
In most places, property lines stop at the street, but in North Oaks,…
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Meta planning facial recognition with glasses
Meta’s smart glasses have an outward facing camera pointed at what you’re looking…
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Ring cancels partnership with law enforcement supplier Flock
The Amazon-owned security system Ring was planning to partner with Flock Safety, who…
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Ring cameras as large-scale surveillance system
During the Super Bowl, Ring ran a commercial that shows how everyone’s doorbell…
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Justice Department says DOGE might have used Social Security data for political purposes
With a surprise to nobody, Kyle Cheney for Politico:
Two members of Elon… -
ICE planning a surveillance system that integrates more data streams and 24/7 monitoring
Dell Cameron, for Wired, on the system currently in its planning phase:
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Facial recognition software leads to wrong man arrested for flashing
NYPD arrested the wrong man, because facial recognition marked a match. Maria Cramer…
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Scraping the Spotify playlists of public figures
New to me, someone anonymously scraped and published the Spotify playlists of a…
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Lowe’s and Home Depot are sharing customer data with law enforcement
The stores use Flock cameras to collect license plate data from cars entering…
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Running an LLM on your laptop
When you use a chatbot with companies like Google or OpenAI, your chats…
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Facial recognition app linked with government data
For 404 Media, Joseph Cox describes an app, Mobile Fortify, that ICE officers…
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ICE to access private data from Medicaid records
For the Associated Press, Kimberly Kindy and Amanda Seitz report:
The database will… -
IRS building a system to share private data with ICE
For ProPublica, William Turton, Christopher Bing, and Avi Asher-Schapiro report on a blueprint…
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DOGE goes for farmers’ financial and personal data
For NPR, Jenna McLaughlin breaks down DOGE access to sensitive USDA data and…
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Airlines sell passenger flight data to Customs and Border Protection
While there are laws in the U.S. to protect some of your privacy…
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Marketplace for government agencies to buy all the personal data about Americans
For the Intercept, Sam Biddle reports on government plans for a one-stop shop…
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Undisclosed surveillance with facial recognition in New Orleans
For The Washington Post, Douglas MacMillan and Aaron Schaffer report on a system…
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