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‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Food, Phones and Finances - The New York Times
The government requires its people to submit finger, eye and facial images. The ID is mandatory for many services, but opponents say it infringes privacy.
The recent revelations of Facebook’s sharing of user data with Cambridge Analytica is just the latest in a long line…
Surveillance memes are everywhere because it feels like surveillance is everywhere.
Here’s How to Make Your Internet Faster with Privacy-Focused CloudFlare’s New 1.1.1.1 DNS Service
An upgrade to DNS, the internet’s address book, would make it harder for ISPs to know where you surf, and for hackers to hijack your traffic.
Facebook has been updating its privacy settings for more than a decade. Will this time be different?
How to get off of people search sites like Pipl, Spokeo, and WhitePages.
On March 17, whistleblower Christopher Wylie revealed that software company Cambridge Analytica had siphoned data from 50 million Facebook users to serve advertisements for the Trump campaign. Facebook said that the social media site was not hacked.…
Step 1: Sign up for Facebook.
You give Facebook all of your data in exchange for using their service—an exchange that seems increasingly out of whack.
Last October Connecticut’s leading education groups and associations issued a joint ultimatum to vendors that use or collect student data: Comply with ...
Privacy issues and ultra-concentrated markets could stem from companies collecting our data, according to this computer scientist.
Strong critique of tools-based approaches to privacy.
It appears to be a remarkable breach of trust.
What are the opportunities for technology in the arts – and what threats does it pose? Knight Foundation, which recently…
When browsing the web, most people know the basics of protecting themselves. But smart home technology is a different story.
Facebook recently expanded its face recognition features—and you may have opted in without even realizing it.
The upcoming European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) prohibits the processing and exploitation of some categories of personal data (health, political orientation, sexual preferences,...