Privacy & Personal Data
My hand-picked collection of articles and media covering crucial topics related to privacy and personal data protection.
Collection by Badih Saikali
briefly.co
Here's Why FLoCs Are a Step Backwards in Data Personalization (And What to Do Instead)
· With these concerns in mind, Google recently opted to get rid of third-party cookies in favor of a new system called Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC. Instead of the cookies that often work in…
MIT Technology Review
Big Tech’s guide to talking about AI ethics
6 min · · 50-ish words you can use to show that you care without incriminating yourself. · Shared by 256, including Terence Mills, Carissa Véliz, @emilymbender@dair-community.social on Mastodon, Sean Gardner, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Bob E. Hayes, Aniyia ❤️, Gary Marcus, 💥 Katie Martell, Adrian Swinscoe, Andreas Staub, John Thornhill, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Andra Keay 🐳 @robotlaunch@mstdn.social, Pierpaolo Alessio, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, John Tasioulas, Evan Selinger
WIRED
Antitrust and Privacy Are on a Collision Course
2 min · · Facebook is being sued for weakening data protections. Google is being sued for strengthening them. Can that paradox be resolved? · Shared by 55, including Backchannel, Carissa Véliz, Nicolas Babin, Adrienne Fichter, Marc R Gagné MAPP
WIRED
What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak?
3 min · · The company's explanations have been confusing and inconsistent, but there are finally some answers. · Shared by 136, including Nicolas Babin, Backchannel, Yves Mulkers, Mathew Ingram, Casey Newton, Privacy Matters, Faik Ersoy
The Verge
Facebook will stop using 2FA tool to harvest phone numbers for friend suggestions
2 min · · Facebook is acting in response to a $5 billion Federal Trade Commission settlement in July, after which the company promised to overhaul its privacy practices. · Shared by 7
MacRumors.com
Sideloading Apps Would 'Break' the Security and Privacy of iPhone, Says Tim Cook
4 min · · In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times' Kara Swisher, on her podcast "Sway," Apple CEO Tim Cook talks about Apple's feud... · Shared by 9, including jesse squires 🏴
The Guardian
Seeing stones: pandemic reveals Palantir's troubling reach in Europe
19+ min · · Covid has given Peter Thiel’s secretive US tech company new opportunities to operate in Europe in ways some campaigners find worrying · Shared by 53, including luis antónio santos, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, Mathieu von Rohr, Carissa Véliz, hakan
EFF
Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsers. Here’s What We Know.
6 min · · Today, Google launched an “origin trial” of Federated Learning of Cohorts (aka FLoC), its experimental new technology for targeting ads. A switch has silently been flipped in millions of instances of… · Shared by 96, including Daniel Stahl, Joe Lencioni, Ste Davies, sircharlsxavier, Ethan Marcotte, Antonio Vieira Santos, Christian Fauteux, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor
WIRED UK
The Home Office is preparing another attack on encryption
6 min · · Priti Patel is linking arms with child protection charities to stop Facebook’s end-to-end encryption roll-out · Shared by 16, including Backchannel
fpf.org
Katerina Demetzou, Policy Fellow, Global Privacy
1 min · · Katerina Demetzou is a Policy Fellow for Global Privacy at the Future of Privacy Forum. She is working to further understanding of the state of play and global trends in data protection and privacy…
The Guardian
Legal challenge seeks to stop ministers sending disappearing messages
2 min · · Self-destructing messages are undemocratic, say transparency campaigners preparing judicial review · Shared by 12
WIRED
Software Is Reorganizing the World
11+ min · · When cloud formations take physical shape, neither their scale nor duration has an upper bound: We may begin to see cloud towns, then cloud cities, and ultimately cloud countries. At first this sounds… · Shared by 268, including Dominik Grolimund, Shervin 🚀 ∞ 🚄, Tauno, Thomas Power, Ryan Boren, Alain, Bertrand Maltaverne, Vala Afshar, Ted Rubin, Balaji, Ser Jeff Garzik, Jonathan Kogan, Luzius Meisser, Leslie D, Minh Do, Pippa Malmgren, Werner Vogels, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Florian Hanke 🍎, Ryan Hoover
WIRED
Critical Flaws in Millions of IoT Devices May Never Get Fixed
3 min · · Amnesia:33 is the latest in a long line of vulnerabilities that affect countless embedded devices. · Shared by 15, including Dean Anthony Gratton, Backchannel
BBC News (World)
How to 'disappear' on Happiness Avenue in Beijing
5 min · · A group of volunteers trying to avoid surveillance cameras took more than two hours to walk 1km. · Shared by 18, including Alex Barrera
The Verge
The Ring drone is just the latest Amazon privacy puzzle box
7 min · · The Ring drone is freaking everybody out, but is it as bad as it seems? · Shared by 11, including Marc R Gagné MAPP
Bloomberg
Facebook Accused of Watching Instagram Users Through Cameras
2 min · · Bloomberg connects decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. Read this story on Bloomberg. · Shared by 39, including Bernhard Huessy, Roberto Blake 🇺🇸🇵🇦 Creative Entrepreneur, OM, Psymposia