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Have your tax returns, Nest videos, and medical info been made public?
Is your browser extension tracking your every move online?
Ethics smell: "His defense of Nacho boiled down to this: It’s just the way the Internet works."
Motherboard obtained a Palantir user manual through a public records request, and it gives unprecedented insight into how the company logs and tracks individuals.
The Kim Darroch leaks highlight how hard it is to keep any communication confidential. How can we regain our privacy?
Email tracking can be a shitty practice. I can’t think of a better way to describe the latest reports that Silicon Valley fad Superhuman—a $30/mo email service—kept tabs on how many times email recipients opened a message.
What does the chilling rise of hypersurveillance mean for your job?
MENLO PARK, CA - Millions of loyal Facebook users took the the streets across North America and Europe to yell out their personal data during an outage earlier today.
Over the past 25 years, email has weaved itself into the daily fabric of life. Our inboxes contain everything from very personal letters, to work correspondence, to unsolicited inbound sales pitches. In many ways, they are an extension of our …
"Convenience" is a shitty excuse surveillance capitalists use to damage all of us.
Students were recorded for research—and then became part of a data set that lives forever online, potentially accessible to anyone.
"What’s the most absurd/invasive thing that tech platforms do or have done that sounds made-up but is actually true?" via @hypervisible. Volume 7.
Screams by high schoolers didn't trigger the detector, but some coughs did. So did cheers for pizza.
On the safety-vs-freedom tradeoff. Low-trust vs. high-trust societies.
On April 15, The Mercury reported that UT Dallas is planning to install Amazon Echo Dots in Residence Hall South this summer, with the long-term aim of installing Echo Dots in every residence hall.…
Mental health
The ACLU will argue on Wednesday that police need a warrant to get data from the computer in your car.
Technology enables employers to increasingly monitor their employees. This explainer by Alexandra Mateescu and Aiha Nguyen identifies four current trends in workplace monitoring and surveillance: prediction and flagging tools; biometrics and health data; remote monitoring and time-tracking; and gamification and algorithmic management.
China's deployment of surveillance to detain Turkic Muslims who use "suspicious network tools" like WhatsApp or too much electricity should concern Western leaders.