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The terms "Five Eyes", "Nine Eyes", and "14 Eyes" often appear when discussing privacy tools. This guide will explain everything you need to know.
GREAT intro piece.
About half of Facebook users say they are not comfortable when they see how the platform categorizes them, and 27% maintain the site’s classifications do not accurately represent them.
By Chris Hoofnagle - University of California, Berkeley | They claim not to sell data, but Facebook and Google have paid developers with data. This selling of your personal data is central to platform economics. Could quality signals change the terms of the bargain?
Cops can't just hold an iPhone up to a suspect's face to search it, judge rules. It could be a landmark decision in modern privacy.
Why all this is confusing.
Tracking is everywhere on the Internet. Over the past year, a drumbeat of tech-industry scandals has acclimated users to the sheer number of ways that personal information can be collected and
Emerging as a comprehensive and aggressive governance scheme in China, the “Social Credit System” (SCS) seeks to promote the norms of “trust” in the Chinese soc
Facebook isn't the only offender.
"illegal access to data is an unfortunate occurrence across virtually every industry that deals in consumer or employee data, and it is impossible to detect a fraudster, or rogue customer, who requests location data of his or her own mobile devices when the required consent is provided."
Popular apps like Kayak and Duolingo are firing off users' Google ad IDs to Facebook the moment apps are launched.
Facebook routinely tracks users, non-users and logged-out users outside its platform through Facebook Business Tools. App developers share data with Facebook through the Facebook Software Development Kit (SDK), a set of software development tools that help developers build apps for a specific operating system. Using the free and open source software tool called "mitmproxy", an interactive HTTPS proxy, Privacy International has analyzed the data that 34 apps on Android, each with an install base from 10 to 500 million, transmit to Facebook through the Facebook SDK.
Last August, Todd Westby’s employees were implanted with microchips. How did they get there? And what the heck does it have to do with vending machines?
FFS FACEBOOK.
Google wants to scan your clothing and listen to you brush your teeth. Welcome home.
The fight against surveillance capitalism and mass state surveillance has reached a tipping point, the peak-indifference moment, when new privacy advocates are self-radicalizing as they witness fir…
BUT FACEBOOK AND ADVERTISERS CAN STILL REIDENTIFY YOU. FFS Facebook, ya liars.
In the 1990s, Silicon Valley promised a global virtual community that would level hierarchies and empower individuals. Instead, we wound up with a habit-forming outrage machine that spies on us. What went wrong?
Another angle on what's creepy and what isn't.