EFF
Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsers. Here’s What We Know.
6 min · · Today, Google launched an “origin trial” of Federated Learning of Cohorts (aka FLoC), its experimental new technology for targeting ads. A switch has silently been flipped in millions of instances of… · Shared by 96, including Daniel Stahl, Joe Lencioni, Ste Davies, sircharlsxavier, Ethan Marcotte, Antonio Vieira Santos, Christian Fauteux, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor
WIRED
Google and the Age of Privacy Theater
2 min · · The demise of surveillance capitalism has been greatly exaggerated. · Shared by 182, including Katja Evertz, Backchannel, Nicolas Babin, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Luca Like, Luciano Floridi @lucianofloridi@mastodon.world, Chris Messina, Daniel Stahl
The New York Times
What Happens When Our Faces Are Tracked Everywhere We Go?
20+ min · · When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open. · Shared by 801, including Jonathan Kogan, zach lieberman, Ste Davies, BenYT, Kashmir Hill, almagentia369, Mathew Ingram, jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr, Nicolas Babin, Matthew Green, Brian Roemmele, Evan Selinger, Cade Metz, Antonio Vieira Santos, Kevin Roose, Max Harlow, Golan Levin, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Margaret Sullivan, Gerry Gaffney
EFF
Cover Your Tracks
3 min · · You will see a summary of your overall tracking protection. The first section gives you a general idea of what your browser configuration is blocking (or not blocking). Below that is a list of… · Shared by 4, including Daniel Stahl
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)
Bloomberg
Palantir Knows Everything About You
Summary · 20+ min · · Facebook may currently be the black sheep when it comes to privacy and data violations, but it isn’t the only company capable of watching every step you take. Bloomberg Businessweek writers Lizette Chapman, Jordan Robertson and Peter Waldman profile the big-data firm Palantir Technologies, which has evolved from helping the US government catch terrorists to assisting companies monitor their employees and helping law enforcement detect possible offenders. A common thread that runs through both companies is their desperate need to make money and please investors – which, as it turns out, is at odds with protecting people’s privacy. · Shared by 897, including Richard Gutjahr, Howard Getson, Marc R Gagné MAPP, John Battelle, Klaus Eck, Prof Michael E. Mann, Nicolas Granatino🌻, Jane, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Data Science Renee, Mike Butcher, Hilary Mason, Claudia Sommer, Oliver Reichenstein, Thomas Power, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Hannes Grassegger, Herbert Bay, Adrienne Fichter
medium.freecodecamp.com
How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
Summary · 5 min · · “Only the paranoid survive.” — Andy Grove · Shared by 552, including يونس بن عمارة, Benoit Curdy, Nico Luchsinger, Nils Hitze, Bram Kanstein, Courtney Bolton ★, Matthias Lampe, Eric David Smith, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Thomas Power, Dez S. Papp, PotHix, Roland Wyss-Aerni 😷, Ryan Boren, Stephen C Sanders, Carl Morris, Benoît Perrier, Simon Wüthrich, Michael Duergner, Lorenz König
WIRED UK
Forget Google Maps. It’s time to try a privacy-friendly alternative
5 min · · Your location data can easily be used to identify you. There are plenty of Google Maps alternatives out there · Shared by 165, including Tom Connor, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, l. ones, Backchannel, Daniel Stahl, Mark Kaigwa
WIRED
9 Apps to Boost Your Phone's Security and Privacy
1 min · · Android and iOS are getting better about protecting your data and device. But if you're looking for an extra line of defense, these can help. · Shared by 223, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Gary Thomas 🌐, Aamir Raz, henrik, Backchannel, Luca Like, Matthias Lampe, Ines Bieler, Oliver Raduner, Nicolas Babin, Faik Ersoy, Daniel Stahl, Joseph Finder
WIRED
Incognito Mode May Not Work the Way You Think It Does
4 min · · Every browser has a private mode—but the privacy it offers has a limit. · Shared by 219, including Carla Gentry 🎶, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Nicolas Babin, Daniel Stahl, Cindy Krum 📱, Marsha Collier, Christian Surchi, Faik Ersoy, Backchannel, Howard Getson, Jessel Sookha
WIRED
Companies Can Track Your Phone’s Movements to Target Ads
3 min · · Brands are seeking new ways to customize messages. A startup that gathers data on when you pick up your phone, or when you go out on a run, can help. · Shared by 71, including Daniel Stahl, Marsha Collier, Tim Hayden, Backchannel
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
The Markup
Blacklight – The Markup
1 min · · A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector · Shared by 457, including Marie-Christine Schindler, Kristen Taylor, Walter Hickey, Tim Bray, Harold Jarche, David McCandless, René Clausen Nielsen, RJ Andrews, Brad Brooks, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Marko Saric, Kyle McDonald, Jon Keegan 🇺🇦, front-end.social/@heydon, Nicolas Kayser-Bril does not use Twіtter., Mark Kaigwa, Esther Schindler, Stef Walter, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Pablo Felip