Data Security / Privacy Protection
Advances in, news about, and failures in data/privacy protection and security.
Collection by Charles Baldwin
Schneier Blog
Schneier on Security
1 min · · This article points out that Facebook's planned content moderation scheme will result in an encryption backdoor into WhatsApp: In Facebook's vision, the actual end-to-end encryption client itself such… · Shared by 23, including Ste Davies, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr, Charles Baldwin
TechCrunch
Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to privacy concerns
2 min · · In response to concerns raised by a Guardian story last week over how recordings of Siri queries are used for quality control, Apple is suspending the program world wide. Apple says it will review the… · Shared by 33, including Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Brian Roemmele, Charles Baldwin, Mike Butcher
Gizmodo
Cops Are Giving Amazon's Ring Your Real-Time 911 Caller Data
5 min · · Amazon-owned home security company Ring is pursuing contracts with police departments that would grant it direct access to real-time emergency dispatch data, Gizmodo has learned. · Shared by 23, including Vikram Dutt, L. Taylor Banks, Molly Wood, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Charles Baldwin
The New York Times
Children as Young as 11 Added to N.Y.P.D. Facial Recognition Database
7 min · · With little oversight, the police have been using the powerful surveillance technology on photos of children and teenagers. · Shared by 27, including John Keefe, Vikram Dutt, Craig Brown, PhD, Charles Baldwin, publici
Gizmodo
Netflix Is Testing 'Physical Activity' Tracking for Some Reason
2 min · · Netflix collects a lot of data about you. But now, some Android users are finding that it’s also tracking ‘physical activity’ data via their phones. · Shared by 9, including Charles Baldwin
The Guardian
'Five Eyes' nations discuss backdoor access to WhatsApp
2 min · · Countries focus on increasingly effective encryption of communications · Shared by 25, including Korben, Mathew Ingram, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Charles Baldwin
AI Papers
Tracking sex: The implications of widespread sexual data leakage and tracking on porn websites
1 min · · This paper explores tracking and privacy risks on pornography websites. Our analysis of 22,484 pornography websites indicated that 93% leak user data to a third party. Tracking on these sites is… · Shared by 9, including Charles Baldwin, Richard Gutjahr
briankrebs
Krebs on Security
4 min · · Federal prosecutors this week charged a Seattle woman with stealing data from more than 100 million credit applications made with Capital One Financial Corp. Incredibly, much of this breach played out… · Shared by 11, including Charles Baldwin
Forbes
The Encryption Debate Is Over - Dead At The Hands Of Facebook
3 min · · The sad reality of the encryption debate is that after 30 years it is finally over: dead at the hands of Facebook. · Shared by 95, including Jochen Burkhard, Yvette Dubel, Elena Neira, Fern, 瑞拿頭, Gerrit Eicker, Charles Baldwin, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Miguel, Luca Like, Chris {he, they} , Gianluca Diegoli
ZDNET
EU Court of Justice ruling may spell the death of social like and share buttons
3 min · · ECJ: Websites using Facebook 'Like' button responsible for the user data they send to Facebook. · Shared by 7, including Charles Baldwin
CNET
5 things you should know about Adblock Plus -- starting with its alliance with the ad industry
5 min · · It's complicated. Eyeo, which makes the top ad blocker, is also an ally of online advertising. · Shared by 8, including Charles Baldwin
puri.sm
Consent Matters: When Tech Takes Remote Control Without Your Permission
6 min · · Purism — Private and Secure Hardware, Software, and Services · Shared by 5, including Charles Baldwin
EFF
Adblocking: How About Nah?
5 min · · For more than a decade, consumer rights groups (including EFF) worked with technologists and companies to try to standardize Do Not Track, a flag that browsers could send to online companies signaling… · Shared by 61, including Mark Kaigwa, KOstas, BrendanEich, Charles Baldwin, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
MIT Technology Review
You’re very easy to track down, even when your data has been anonymized
2 min · · A new study shows you can be easily re-identified from almost any database, even when your personal details have been stripped out. · Shared by 89, including Josep M. Ganyet, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Thomas Wong, Vala Afshar, Angela Zutavern, Oscar MacDonald, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Charles Baldwin, Vikram Dutt, AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Mike Tamir, PhD, Dr. Alec Couros, Ronald van Loon, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Antonio Vieira Santos, jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr
Ars Technica
Siri records fights, doctor’s appointments, and sex (and contractors hear it)
2 min · · In a new report, Apple takes its turn in the crosshairs over how it reviews user recordings. · Shared by 23, including Charles Baldwin, Marsha Collier
briankrebs
Krebs on Security
4 min · · Nearly three dozen journalists at a broad range of major publications have been targeted by a far-right group that maintains a Deep Web database listing the personal information of people who threaten… · Shared by 23, including trudy, Miguel, Rand Fishkin, Charles Baldwin, Tris Hussey