The New York Times
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret
20+ min · · Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is. · Shared by 650, including Nicolas Babin, Auf der Isar gibt es keine Matrosen, nur Flößer., arabist, swissmiss, Gerd Leonhard, Jane, Mark Kaigwa, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, ❤️ Umair, Josep M. Ganyet, Mark Little, BrendanEich, Liliane Ferrari ™, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, John Battelle, Richard Gutjahr, Nick Szabo, Thomas Power, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Tristan Nitot - nitot chez framapiaf point org
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 New York Times
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
15+ min · · A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says. · Shared by 590, including Sebastian Raschka, Mathew Ingram, Dr. Alec Couros, DHH, Carl Zimmer, Brian Solis, Chris Messina, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, kate wagner (rilke era), Alexia Bonatsos, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Klaus Eck, Benedict Evans, Troy Hunt, Antonio Vieira Santos, Marsha Collier
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 📯
NPR
Your Technology Is Tracking You. Take These Steps For Better Online Privacy
8 min · · NPR's Laurel Wamsley talked with the experts about how to better protect your information — from your text messages to your location — while you're on the phone and computer. · Shared by 461, including Ines Bieler, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Jane, Aamir Raz, Katja Evertz, Bilal Aslam, Nrupal Akolkar, rogerverhoeven
The New York Times
It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
Summary · 20+ min · · What with data privacy scandals, fake news and Russian interference, Facebook finds itself in the middle of a growing storm. An increasing number of voices in US politics – as well as in economic and legal circles – have started to call for the breakup of the internet giant. Now Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has joined the chorus. He makes his case in a New York Times op-ed, which has become an instant must-read for anybody interested in the debate about the role of government in the social media space. · Shared by 407, including ❤️ Umair, Thomas Power, Adrienne Fichter, Tristan Harris, Molly Wood, Gerd Leonhard, Jeff Bussgang, Stewart Alsop, Mathew Ingram, Chris Messina, mrbrown, Richard Gutjahr, Gabriel Weinberg, John Battelle, rufuspollock, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Azeem Azhar, Rand Fishkin, Matt Navarra, Hannes Grassegger
VICE
Zoom iOS App Sends Data to Facebook Even if You Don’t Have a Facebook Account
· Zoom's privacy policy isn't explicit about the data transfer to Facebook at all. · Shared by 363, including DHH, Swizec Teller writing a book on software rewrites, @kevinctofel@hachyderm.io 🇺🇦, Neira Jones, Molly Wood, IamNomad, OM, Stever Robbins @stever@newsie.social, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Aamir Raz, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, Steve Tendon, Martin Steiger 🦈, Aron Pilhofer (now here journa.host/@pilhofer), Jane, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Ethan Marcotte, Niklaus Gerber, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Audrey Watters
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❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓
MIT Technology Review
This startup is using AI to give workers a “productivity score”
4 min · · In the last few months, millions of people around the world stopped going into offices and started doing their jobs from home. These workers may be out of sight of managers, but they are not out of… · Shared by 298, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Nicolas Babin, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Nige Roberts-Willson, caroline sinders, Thomas Power, Bill Johnston, Andreas Staub, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Esther Schindler, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Neil Hart 💙, Michael Fisher, Ronald van Loon
Engadget
Your online activity is now effectively a social ‘credit score’
6 min · · Airbnb is using AI and social 'credit scores' to vet its users... in an Orwellian fashion. · Shared by 292, including Desmond Williams, Thomas Pleil, Liliane Ferrari ™, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்), Thomas Power, Michael Seemann, George M 🇪🇺, Peter Steinberger, Brooks Rainwater, Jonathan Kogan, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Matthias Lampe, Chris Gledhill, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Melissa Fach 🇺🇦, fantastic ms., Josep M. Ganyet, henrik, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
medium.com
The Loss Of Micro-Privacy
19+ min · · How small design changes rewrote the rules of messaging and how we feel about one another · Shared by 287, including Boris Périsset, Jeff Atwood, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Desmond Williams, L. Taylor Banks, Dominik Grolimund, Kat, ashley 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦, tcherno, Adrian Zumbrunnen, Manuel Reinhard, Gianluca Diegoli
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 New Yorker
Dressing for the Surveillance Age
5 min · · As cities become ever more packed with cameras that always see, public anonymity could disappear. Can stealth streetwear evade electronic eyes? · Shared by 230, including William Gibson, 瑞拿頭, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Thomas Pleil, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, hardmaru, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Luca Like
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
WIRED
What's Not Included in Facebook's 'Download Your Data'
7 min · · Facebook says users own their data and touts its "download your data" tool. But the download doesn't include everything Facebook knows about you. · Shared by 225, including jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr, Thomas Power, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Luca Like, Tauno, Carl Morris, Chris Messina, Ralph Hutter, Liv 😷, Björn Ognibeni, Bjorn Larsen, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Jörg Niggli | @niggli@tooting.ch, Dominik Grolimund, Mark Kaigwa, Kim Schläpfer, Helmi
Vox
The hidden trackers in your phone, explained
12+ min · · How covert code enables your phone’s apps to spy on you. · Shared by 223, including Liv 😷, blinch, Esther Schindler, Brian Ahier, Mark Kaigwa, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Thomas Pleil, Oliver Raduner, Privacy Matters, Kashmir Hill, Shubhankar Adhikari, Christian Surchi