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Browser-Fingerprinting: Favicons als "Super-Cookies"
2 min · · Mit dem Ende der Third-Party-Cookies kommt Browser-Fingerprinting wieder in Mode. Forscher haben eine neue Methode gefunden, Nutzer verdeckt zu identifizieren. · Shared by 21, including Jochen Burkhard, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Daniel Schwarz
The New Yorker
Taking Back Our Privacy
11+ min · · Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of the end-to-end encrypted messaging service Signal, is “trying to bring normality to the Internet.” · Shared by 308, including Jochen Burkhard, Luca Like, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Kyle Chayka, Bailey Richardson, Carissa Véliz, Nrupal Akolkar, hiten.eth, Jane, henrik, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Bill Gurley, Matthias Lampe, Birgit Schefer, hakan, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓
OneZero
Clear Conquered U.S. Airports. Now It Wants to Own Your Entire Digital Identity.
20+ min · · ‘You are your driver’s license, your credit card, your health care card, your building access card’ · Shared by 49, including Jochen Burkhard, sircharlsxavier, Brian Ahier, Sam Maule
The Markup
The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website
17+ min · · Trackers piggybacking on website tools leave some site operators in the dark about who is watching or what marketers do with the data · Shared by 138, including ツ, henrik, mastodon.social/@renestalder, Chris Isak, Christian Müller, Mark Kaigwa, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Thomas Pleil, Daniel Stahl, Bernhard Huessy, Jochen Burkhard
VICE
Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data
9 min · · An Avast antivirus subsidiary sells 'Every search. Every click. Every buy. On every site.' Its clients have included Home Depot, Google, Microsoft, Pepsi, and McKinsey. · Shared by 552, including John Koetsier, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Tamara McCleary, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, Mark Kaigwa, Daniel Newman, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Mathew Ingram, Peter Steinberger, William Toll, Gerd Leonhard, Builtvisible, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Graphic Mac, Josep M. Ganyet, Richard Joerges, DHH, Jonathan Kogan, EMERCE, John C. Havens (he/him)
Aeon+Psyche
A handful of executives control the ‘attention economy’. Time for attentive resistance
· The consolidation of the ‘attention economy’ to a handful of companies is an experiment that demands our attentive resistance · Shared by 76, including 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Jochen Burkhard, Gabriele, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Anita Leirfall, Barry C Smith
WIRED
One Data Scientist’s Quest to Quash Misinformation
2 min · · Sara-Jayne Terp uses the tools of cybersecurity to track false claims like they’re malware. Her goal: Stop dangerous lies from hacking our beliefs. · Shared by 27, including Carla Gentry 🎶, luis antónio santos, Jochen Burkhard
heise online
Edit Policy 11: PimEyes & Gesichtserkennung in Europa
2 min · · Gesichtserkennung ist eine massive Gefahr für die Grundrechte, aber eine Debatte über ihren Einsatz gibt es in Deutschland und Europa nicht. Anders in den USA. · Shared by 22, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Nico Lumma, Jochen Burkhard
The Intercept
The Microsoft Police State: Mass Surveillance, Facial Recognition, and the Azure Cloud
16+ min · · Microsoft helps police surveil and patrol communities through its own offerings and a network of partnerships — while its PR efforts obscure this. · Shared by 88, including Psymposia, Matt Walton R.TCMP, Jochen Burkhard, Mike Tamir, PhD, Tris Hussey, Bjorn Larsen, jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr, Stefan Diepolder, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛
TechCrunch
Privacy assistant Jumbo raises $8 million and releases major update
4 min · · A year after its initial release, Jumbo has two important pieces of news to announce. First, the company has released a major update of its app that protects your privacy on online services. Second,… · Shared by 72, including Michael Fauscette, Rob Go, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Jochen Burkhard
WIRED
How Surveillance Has Always Reinforced Racism
3 min · · Sociologist and author Simone Browne connects the dots between modern marketing and the branding of slaves. · Shared by 158, including James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Backchannel, Jochen Burkhard, Naomi Klein, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
WIRED
Protests Renew Scrutiny of Tech's Ties to Law Enforcement
3 min · · Amazon executives tweeted support for protesters. But the company sells a surveillance tool to police that studies say misidentifies darker skinned people. · Shared by 18, including Jochen Burkhard, Backchannel
The Intercept
Amazon “Stands in Solidarity” While Selling Racist Tech To Police
3 min · · The company’s vocal support for protests is contradicted by its surveillance products like Ring and Rekognition. · Shared by 51, including Jochen Burkhard, Aral Balkan, Lea R. 🦄, Katja Evertz, Naomi Klein
WIRED
Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising?
2 min · · From protecting privacy to saving the free press, it may be the single best way to fix the internet. · Shared by 359, including Shawn Venasse, Backchannel, Zephyr Teachout, Mark Kaigwa, Joanna J Bryson, Marko Saric, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Marc R Gagné MAPP, sircharlsxavier, Matthias Lampe, Jennifer Hurst, Bill Johnston, Azeem Azhar, DHH, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Nicolas Martinod, Marius Bleuer, Benedict Evans, Richard Joerges, luis antónio santos
ZDNET
Brave to generate random browser fingerprints to preserve user privacy
3 min · · Shared by 30, including Marc R Gagné MAPP, Jochen Burkhard, Marius Bleuer, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr