The New York Times
How to Dox Yourself on the Internet
7 min · · A step-by-step guide to finding and removing your personal information from the internet. · Shared by 444, including Times Open, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Dr. Janet D. Stemwedel, PhD 🏳️🌈, Desmond Williams, Cristina Tardáguila, Jane, Gabriele, Ayala Sherbow, Daniel Schwarz, Daniel, WeNeedDiverseBooks, Fern
Stratechery
Zero Trust Information
12+ min · · Zero Trust Networking is security with Internet assumptions; there is tremendous value if we apply the same approach to information. · Shared by 511, including Scott Monty, Jonathan Kogan, Linus Basig, Andrew Ermogenous, Ben Thompson, LoriBeth, Steven Sinofsky, Keerthi G, 🌴Marc Averitt🌴, Christian Surchi, Max Niederhofer, Brian Armstrong 🛡️, Mark Kaigwa, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Rifki Caesar Novaldin, 💥💥 Larson Reever🇺🇸, Konrad Weber, Balaji, Tom Connor, Mark Little
Mashable
Zoom is a work-from-home privacy disaster waiting to happen
3 min · · The videoconferencing service is a privacy minefield. · Shared by 248, including mrbrown, Neira Jones, Stefan Diepolder, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Marsha Collier, Desmond Williams, Faik Ersoy, Oliver Raduner, Rifki Caesar Novaldin, Tris Hussey, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Daniel Schwarz, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN
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
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 📯
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)
TechCrunch
Facebook is weaponizing security to erode privacy
15+ min · · At a Senate hearing this week in which US lawmakers quizzed tech giants on how they should go about drawing up comprehensive Federal consumer privacy protection legislation, Apple’s VP of software… · Shared by 35, including Adrienne Fichter, Jochen Burkhard, Desmond Williams, Nicolas Granatino🌻
thecontrol.co
An Overview of Privacy in Cryptocurrencies
10 min · · “I see privacy as a way to prevent signaling concerns from encompassing all of our activity, and creating spheres where we are free to… · Shared by 31, including Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Weiting Chen, Desmond Williams, Mattias Tyrberg
The New York Times
Prosecutors Are Shaping Privacy Law, and Your Privacy Isn’t Their Priority
6 min · · They’ve stepped into the void left by Congress’s failure to say how far the police can go in using investigative technology. · Shared by 23, including Charles Baldwin, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Desmond Williams
medium.com
What Is Privacy? — The Message
4 min · · It’s also not so simple… · Shared by 20, including Desmond Williams, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Daniel Boos, Chris Messina
privacytools.io
privacy tools - encryption against surveillance
20+ min · · You are being watched! Knowledge, encryption and privacy tools to protect you against global mass surveillance. · Shared by 156, including Tweakers, Stammy, Faik Ersoy, Esther Schindler, Clemens M. Schuster, Daniel Bentes, Marcos, Ruben Feurer, masone, Pascal Birchler, Bruno Skvorc 🦞 | bruno.eth, Rezha Julio, Carissa Véliz, Florian Hanke 🍎, Oliver Raduner, Kenneth Kalmer, Sumomi, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Kim Søvsø, mastodon.social/@renestalder
Frederic Filloux
Dealing with the privacy paradox
6 min · · Shared by 22, including Anthony Hamelle, Desmond Williams, Konrad Lischka, Nicolas Granatino🌻, Kim Dik, luis antónio santos
Quartz
Your digital identity has three layers, and you can only protect one of them
7 min · · What story does your data tell about you? · Shared by 366, including ThomNagy, fernand0, Ines Bieler, Liliane Ferrari ™, Christopher Allen, Daniel Boos, Scott Williams, Michael Seemann, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Jacob Cass, Marsha Collier, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Lluís Codina, Dominik Grolimund, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Fern, Lucas Foster, Klaus Eck, von Moerenburgh, Lord Travis Wright
Guardian Tech
I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets
6 min · · Reading through all this intimate information I realised the dating app knows me better than I do. But what happens if this data gets hacked – or worse, sold? · Shared by 384, including Benoît Perrier, Thomas Euler, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Myke Näf, Chris Messina, Florian Jungnikl-Gossy 🦋, Claudia Sommer, Luca Hammer, Tom Bruehwiler, Thomas Power, Weiting Chen, Remo Uherek, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Martin Stabe, Matthias Lampe, Azeem Azhar, Stephan Leduc, adrianoesch, Florian Hanke 🍎, Clemens M. Schuster
webkay.robinlinus.com
What every Browser knows about you
1 min · · See all the data your browser reveals about you by visting a website. · Shared by 394, including Liv 😷, ThomNagy, Fabricio Teixeira, Adrian Zumbrunnen, Oleg Baskov, Esther Schindler, Data Science Renee, Mara Averick, Herbert Bay, hernannadal, Mathias Böhm, Rand Fishkin, ᴄʟᴀᴜᴅɪᴏ sᴄʜᴡᴀʀᴢ, Mark Needham, Jitendra Vyas, Patrick Scheuerer, Lorenz König, Christina, Thomas Power, Mark Kaigwa
The Guardian
'They wanted me gone': Edward Snowden tells of whistleblowing, his AI fears and six years in Russia
9 min · · The man whose state surveillance revelations rocked the world speaks exclusively to the Guardian about his new life and concerns for the future · Shared by 334, including Jochen Burkhard, Vincenzo Tremonte, Matthias Lampe, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Katja Evertz, Thomas Power, Howard Getson, Charles Baldwin, Desmond Williams, Neuropsychology, Ines Bieler, ❤️ Umair, Gil Press, Evan Selinger, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos