The New York Times
Google’s Sundar Pichai: Privacy Should Not Be a Luxury Good
5 min · · Yes, we use data to make products more helpful for everyone. But we also protect your information. · Shared by 88, including Christian Müller, Simon Wüthrich, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, 瑞拿頭, Michael Duergner, Yvette Dubel, Gergely Orosz, Thomas Power, Bjorn Larsen, Brian Tomlinson ⚡️, Massimiliano Aroffo, Builtvisible, Mathew Ingram
PCMag
The Quantified Employee: How Companies Use Tech to Track Workers
12+ min · · Measuring employee performance with surveillance isn't new, but emerging technologies are helping companies monitor workers in arguably invasive ways. Are you being watched? · Shared by 82, including Dr. David Ballard, Katja Evertz, Ron McIntyre, Tom Connor, 瑞拿頭, Real Marsha Wright®, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
The New York Times
Jaron Lanier Fixes the Internet
· The Silicon Valley maverick has a radical vision how we can all earn money from our data. · Shared by 74, including Tiffany Shlain, fnord, adrianoesch, Josep M. Ganyet, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, 瑞拿頭, Tauno, luis antónio santos, Ste Davies
sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu
Fawkes
2 min · · 2020 is a watershed year for machine learning. It has seen the true arrival of commodized machine learning, where deep learning models and algorithms are readily available to Internet users. GPUs are… · Shared by 66, including Aníbal M. Astobiza, 瑞拿頭, hardmaru, Mike Rundle, Bruno Skvorc 🦞 | bruno.eth, Patrick Sanwikarja, Jameson Lopp, Robin Sloan, @pam@jawns.club, Luca Like, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷
Nautilus Magazine
WeChat Is Watching
16+ min · · It’s 9 a.m. on a typical morning in Chengdu and I’m awakened by the sound of my phone alarm. The phone is in my study, connected… · Shared by 66, including Miguel, Gideonro, 瑞拿頭, Jeff Atwood, Matthias Lampe
Idle Words
The New Wilderness (Idle Words)
7 min · · 06.10.2019 The New Wilderness The need to regulate online privacy is a truth so universally acknowledged that even Facebook and Google have joined the chorus of voices crying for change. Writing in… · Shared by 66, including Rachel Thomas, Rick Powell, 瑞拿頭, Joshua Walker, Konrad Lischka, Daniel Bentes, Jane
Schneier Blog
Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom
7 min · · Over the past few weeks, Zoom's use has exploded since it became the video conferencing platform of choice in today's COVID-19 world. (My own university, Harvard, uses it for all of its classes. Boris… · Shared by 60, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Matthias Lampe, Daniel Schwarz, 瑞拿頭, Alain, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Marc R Gagné MAPP, slumos
Citizen Lab
We Chat, They Watch: How International Users Unwittingly Build up WeChat’s Chinese Censorship Apparatus
· WeChat communications conducted entirely among non-China-registered accounts are subject to pervasive content surveillance that was previously thought to be exclusively reserved for China-registered… · Shared by 58, including hardmaru, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Mark Tabladillo PhD, 瑞拿頭, Neeraj K Agrawal, Jane Manchun Wong
Fast Company
How COVID-19 is changing the way we think about privacy
8 min · · The founder of data privacy startup Immuta explores how advanced privacy techniques could be employed to automate contact-tracing without sacrificing privacy. · Shared by 54, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, 瑞拿頭, John C. Havens (he/him)
latacora.micro.blog
Stop Using Encrypted Email
6 min · · Email is unsafe and cannot be made safe. The tools we have today to encrypt email are badly flawed. Even if those flaws were fixed, email would remain unsafe. Its problems cannot plausibly be… · Shared by 52, including Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, 瑞拿頭, William (Bill) Kennedy, Chris {he, they} , Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert, Marc R Gagné MAPP, DHH, Ser Jeff Garzik, Matthew Green
brave.com
VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed Virtual Private Network
8 min · · This research presents VPN⁰, the first distributed virtual private network offering a privacy preserving traffic authorization and validation mechanism. This research was conducted by Dr. Matteo… · Shared by 48, including AJ Ghergich, Liv 😷, Vikram Dutt, BrendanEich, 瑞拿頭
WIRED
An iPhone App That Protects Your Privacy—For Real This Time
6 min · · The Guardian Firewall app gives iOS users a reprieve from the scourge of online trackers. · Shared by 38, including Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Rate limit exceeded, Thomas Wong, 瑞拿頭, Backchannel
VICE
When Myspace Was King, Employees Abused a Tool Called ‘Overlord’ to Spy on Users
4 min · · Several employees were caught abusing the tool, which let them read users’ messages and passwords. · Shared by 35, including 瑞拿頭, mastodon.social/@renestalder, Ste Davies, Dr Hannah Little, Mathew Ingram
Schneier Blog
Schneier on Security
3 min · · For decades, I have been talking about the importance of individual privacy. For almost as long, I have been using the metaphor of digital feudalism to describe how large companies have become central… · Shared by 34, including Jamie Burke ⛺️, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Bill Johnston, 瑞拿頭, Joe Lencioni
The Washington Post
Perspective | You watch TV. Your TV watches back.
· In our latest privacy experiment, we tracked how four of the most popular TV brands record everything we watch. · Shared by 34, including 瑞拿頭, Gideonro, Joe Germuska, Luca Like, anildash.com, Shubhankar Adhikari
WIRED
On TikTok, Teens Meme the Safety App Ruining Their Summer
6 min · · Parents can use Life360 to track their teen’s location in real time. The company can use that data to sell car insurance. · Shared by 33, including 瑞拿頭, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Backchannel, Mark Kaigwa