ProPublica
Websites Selling Abortion Pills Are Sharing Sensitive Data With Google
9 min · · Some sites selling abortion pills use technology that shares information with third parties like Google. Law enforcement can potentially use this data to prosecute people who end their pregnancies… · Shared by 58, including Faik Ersoy, ACLU, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, National NOW, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe
EFF
Send Surveillance Robot Dogs to the Pound, Not the Border
3 min · · On February 1, 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate, the official research and development arm of the agency, released a cutesy press release about how… · Shared by 9, including Faik Ersoy
EFF
Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening
3 min · · Manifest V3, Google Chrome’s soon-to-be definitive basket of changes to the world of web browser extensions, has been framed by its authors as “a step in the direction of privacy, security, and… · Shared by 132, including Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Joe Lencioni, Thomas Pleil, Massimo Banzi, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Faik Ersoy, Marius Bleuer
The Guardian
The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history
6 min · · Geofence location and keyword warrants are new law enforcement tools that have privacy experts concerned · Shared by 173, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, David Doughty, Howard Getson, Carissa Véliz, Aral Balkan, Matthew Green, Thomas Power, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, John Nosta, Thomas Pleil, Faik Ersoy, Fabio Chiusi, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Ars Technica
Privacy-focused ProtonMail provided a user’s IP address to authorities
3 min · · Swiss courts compelled it to log and disclose a user's IP and browser fingerprint. · Shared by 95, including Faik Ersoy, Thomas Power, Tactical Tech, Backchannel
The Verge
Apple cares about privacy, unless you work at Apple
8 min · · Employees say Apple hasn’t done enough to protect their data. · Shared by 130, including Thomas Power, Marcin Krzyzanowski, Rick Powell, Faik Ersoy, Patrick Sanwikarja, Steve Troughton-Smith (Archived), Tactical Tech, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Privacy Matters
edwardsnowden.substack.com
The All-Seeing "i": Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy
7 min · · “Under His Eye,” she says. The right farewell. “Under His Eye,” I reply, and she gives a little nod. · Shared by 264, including Albert Ràfols, Tactical Tech, Gerd Leonhard, Aral Balkan, Faik Ersoy, Michael (मुकेश), Thomas Power, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Tim Bray, Niklaus Gerber, Jonathan Kogan, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Evan Selinger, Josep M. Ganyet, John Nosta, Glenn Greenwald, Leif Wolkenhauer, Privacy Matters, Rick Powell, Stefan Diepolder
WIRED
The Privacy Battle That Apple Isn’t Fighting
5 min · · California has begun enforcing a browser-level privacy setting, but you still can’t find that option in Safari or iOS. · Shared by 149, including Ines Bieler, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Steven, Katja Evertz, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Bjorn Larsen, Backchannel, Faik Ersoy, Tactical Tech, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
MIT Technology Review
She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she’s telling her story.
12+ min · · Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, revealed that it enables global political manipulation and has done little to stop it. · Shared by 363, including John Koetsier, Katja Evertz, Thomas Power, Mike Butcher, @emilymbender@dair-community.social on Mastodon, Alex Barrera, Faik Ersoy, Marty Cagan, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Jennifer Ouellette, Rick Powell, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Arin Basu, Mathew Ingram, Gabriele, @timnitGebru@dair-community.social on Mastodon
WIRED
This AI Helps Police Monitor Social Media. Does It Go Too Far?
3 min · · Law enforcement officials say the tool can help them combat misinformation. Civil liberties advocates say it can be used for mass surveillance. · Shared by 98, including Matt Navarra, Tactical Tech, Faik Ersoy, Nicolas Babin, Katja Evertz, Mathew Ingram, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Backchannel, Antonio Vieira Santos, Marsha Collier
TechCrunch
TikTok just gave itself permission to collect biometric data on US users, including ‘faceprints and voiceprints’
5 min · · A change to TikTok’s U.S. privacy policy on Wednesday introduced a new section that says the social video app “may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information” from its users’ content.… · Shared by 245, including Brooke B. Sellas, Berci Meskó, MD, PhD, Real Marsha Wright®, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali, Antonio Vieira Santos, Sam Maule, Roberto Blake 🇺🇸🇵🇦 Creative Entrepreneur, Katja Evertz, Rick Powell, Michelle Killebrew, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Ser Jeff Garzik, Glen Gilmore #MWC23, John Koetsier, Stephanie A Kowalski, Akvile DeFazio, Aral Balkan, Matt Navarra, Faik Ersoy
The Verge
DuckDuckGo launches new Email Protection service to remove trackers
4 min · · Goosing privacy protections. · Shared by 141, including Gabriel Weinberg, Real Marsha Wright®, Michael Fauscette, Faik Ersoy
Matthew Green
A case against security nihilism
5 min · · This week a group of global newspapers is running a series of articles detailing abuses of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. If you haven’t seen any of these articles, they’re worth re… · Shared by 120, including Thomas Power, Ser Jeff Garzik, Faik Ersoy
The Guardian
Key Modi rival Rahul Gandhi among potential Indian targets of NSO client
11+ min · · Leak suggests Indian opposition leader among hundreds selected for possible surveillance by Modi government · Shared by 57, including Faik Ersoy, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓
The Guardian
Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of cyber surveillance weapon
9 min · · Spyware sold to authoritarian regimes used to target activists, politicians and journalists, data suggests · Shared by 756, including Cope, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Sascha Venohr, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Tara Imani, AIA, Alex Tabarrok 🛡️, hakan, David Ndii, Carl Zimmer, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Maarten Lambrechts @maarten@vis.social, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Privacy Matters, Thomas Power, Vinny Lingham, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, Dr. Jeffrey Guterman, Carissa Véliz, Ian Schlakman, John Koetsier
EFF
The GDPR, Privacy and Monopoly
11+ min · · In Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability, we took a thorough look at the privacy implications of various kinds of interoperability. We examined the potential privacy risks of… · Shared by 51, including Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Faik Ersoy, Matthias Lampe