NBC News
Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect.
4 min · · Shared by 226, including Ste Davies, Peter Todd/mempoolfullrbf=1, Thomas Power, Luca Like, Tom Raftery, Marius Bleuer, Delip Rao e/σ, Kashmir Hill, Chris Gledhill, Evan Selinger, BrendanEich, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Josep M. Ganyet, Tristan Nitot - nitot chez framapiaf point org, Antonio Vieira Santos, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Ayala Sherbow, Matthias Lampe
Vox
How to delete what Facebook knows about your life outside of Facebook
5 min · · The "Off-Facebook Activity" tool lets you see — and somewhat control — what other sites and apps tell Facebook about you · Shared by 196, including Katja Evertz, Desmond Williams, Faik Ersoy, Stefan Diepolder, Mark Kaigwa, Matthias Lampe, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Ayala Sherbow, C̷͈̳̫͗͊̾had P̸̜͇̱̗̻̝̙͆͑͑͝͝ollitt, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The Guardian
Revealed: Facebook’s global lobbying against data privacy laws
· Social network targeted legislators around the world, promising or threatening to withhold investment · Shared by 109, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Leni "Lee" Krsova ⚔️, Philippe Surber, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Azeem Azhar, Clemens M. Schuster, Charles Baldwin, Thomas Power, Larry Balaclava, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Luca Like, Bjorn Larsen, Richard Gutjahr, Rand Fishkin, Oliver Reichenstein
TechCrunch
Facebook’s latest ‘transparency’ tool doesn’t offer much — so we went digging
20+ min · · Just under a month ago Facebook switched on global availability of a tool which affords users a glimpse into the murky world of tracking that its business relies upon to profile users of the wider web… · Shared by 99, including Pam Moore, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Jochen Burkhard, Oliver Raduner, Neal Schaffer | ニール・シェーファー, Luca Like, Matthias Lampe, Katja Evertz, Jon Loomer
VICE
Here’s the File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too
5 min · · We used the California Consumer Privacy Act to see what information the controversial facial recognition company has collected on me. · Shared by 189, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Carl Robinson 🎙️, Fern, John Koetsier, Marc R Gagné MAPP
The Atlantic
How the Coronavirus Revealed Authoritarianism’s Fatal Flaw
10 min · · China’s use of surveillance and censorship makes it harder for Xi Jinping to know what’s going on in his own country. · Shared by 252, including Martin Steiger 🦈, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Nicolas Granatino🌻, Nico Luchsinger, Gerd Leonhard, zeynep tufekci, Mathew Ingram, Matthias Lampe, Tom Pick | #B2Bmarketing guy, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Vikram Dutt, Agnese Folli, Klaus Eck, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after
The Guardian
'Ban this technology': students protest US universities' use of facial recognition
3 min · · Students staged protests on a dozen campuses while 36 schools saw online actions · Shared by 73, including Katja Evertz, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Ines Bieler, Elena Neira, Marc R Gagné MAPP
The Daily Beast
Facial-Recognition Company That Works With Law Enforcement Says Entire Client List Was Stolen
1 min · · Clearview AI, which contracts with law enforcement after reportedly scraping 3 billion images from the web, now says someone got “unauthorized access” to its list of customers. · Shared by 89, including Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Paolo Sinelli, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Trey Tweets Into the Void, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Arnie Kuenn, Brian Roemmele, Antonio Vieira Santos, Claus Heller 🇺🇦, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Tom Cardoso, Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯, Jon Keegan 🇺🇦, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Kashmir Hill
The New Statesman
Slouching towards dystopia: the rise of surveillance capitalism and the death of privacy
12+ min · · Suppose you walk into a shop and the guard at the entrance records your name. Cameras on the ceiling track your every step in the store, log which items you looked at and which ones you ignored. After… · Shared by 500, including Liv 😷, Karla Oliveira, José Antonio Bolio Martínez, MΛRC VIDΛL, Katja Evertz, Seán Köhlmoos, Fern, Jansnet, Jennifer Hurst, Faik Ersoy, Jochen Burkhard, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Brian Ahier, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
BuzzFeed News
Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech Is Being Used By The Justice Department, ICE, And The FBI
18+ min · · A BuzzFeed News review of Clearview AI documents has revealed the company is working with more than 2,200 law enforcement agencies, companies, and individuals around the world. · Shared by 214, including Katie Benner, caroline sinders, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Kashmir Hill, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Katja Evertz, Psymposia, Fern, Virginia Hughes, Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯, Mathew Ingram, Desmond Williams, Adrienne Fichter
The Verge
Google is indexing WhatsApp group chat links, making even private groups discoverable
2 min · · The flaw lets anyone join a WhatsApp group chat, even if they’re not invited. · Shared by 102, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Marc R Gagné MAPP, martyweintraub, Glen Gilmore #MWC23, Johannes Lenz, Katja Evertz, Matthew Green, Neira Jones, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Thomas Power, Thomas Pleil, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The Guardian
Internet privacy: the apps that protect you from your apps
8 min · · Worried about the data collected about you? A new generation of startups is making apps to put your privacy settings straight · Shared by 604, including Jonathan Kogan, Johannes Lenz, Mark Kaigwa, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Jansnet, Brian Ahier, Jane, Howard Getson, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Rob Go, Oliver Raduner, henrik, Joshua Walker, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Faik Ersoy, Katja Evertz, Luca Like, Josep M. Ganyet, Christian Müller, Matthias Lampe
The Guardian
The rise of facial recognition technology
2 min · · With facial recognition technology getting more sophisticated each year, technology editor Alex Hern explores the issue of privacy. Also today: Jamie Grierson on Sunday’s terrorism attack in south… · Shared by 154, including adrianoesch, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Mark Kaigwa, Jochen Burkhard, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN
The Guardian
Will we just accept our loss of privacy, or has the techlash already begun?
4 min · · Not so long ago we searched Google. Now we seem quite happy to let Google search us · Shared by 118, including Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Luca Like, Mark Kaigwa, Gerd Leonhard, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, henrik, luis antónio santos, Jochen Burkhard, Matthias Lampe, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻
The New York Times
Coronavirus Brings China's Surveillance State Out of the Shadows
3 min · · When the man from Hangzhou returned home from a business trip, the local police got in touch. They had tracked his car by his license plate in nearby Wenzhou, which has had a spate of coronavirus… · Shared by 15, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The Guardian
If China valued free speech, there would be no coronavirus crisis
2 min · · Country could have contained spread of disease if only it had learned lessons from Sars outbreak · Shared by 19, including Neeraj K Agrawal, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯