The New York Times
A Surveillance Net Blankets China’s Cities, Giving Police Vast Powers
11+ min · · The authorities can scan your phones, track your face and find out when you leave your home. One of the world’s biggest spying networks is aimed at regular people, and nobody can stop it. · Shared by 97, including ExApologist, John Battelle, Noah Toly, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, hardmaru, Thomas Power, 𝚃𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝙷𝚊𝚢𝚍𝚎𝚗, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Katja Evertz, Luca Like, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, John O'Farrell, Liv 😷, Martin Ford, Desmond Williams, sehee hahn, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, mrbrown
rufposten.de
Privacy Analysis of Tiktok’s App and Website
3 min · · I did a detailed privacy check of the Tiktok app and website. Tiktok commits multiple breaches of law, trust, transparency and data protection.Here are all technical and legal details. You can · Shared by 88, including Johannes Lenz, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Matthias Lampe, Larry Balaclava, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Kahlil Lechelt, Dr. John Grohol 🇺🇦, Desmond Williams, Thomas Fuchs
Reuters
Made in America
· The ex-White House staff who helped devise the UAE's bold spying mission · Shared by 152, including Matthew Green, Desmond Williams, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu
Gizmodo
Ring’s Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon's Sprawling Home Surveillance Network
12+ min · · As reporters raced this summer to bring new details of Ring’s law enforcement contracts to light, the home security company, acquired last year by Amazon for a whopping $1 billion, strove to… · Shared by 103, including Thomas Pleil, Katja Evertz, Matthias Lampe, Faik Ersoy, Paul Kedrosky, Thomas Power, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Josep M. Ganyet, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Desmond Williams
The New York Times
It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool.
7 min · · ToTok, an Emirati messaging app that has been downloaded to millions of phones, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race. · Shared by 162, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Michael S. Schmidt, Adam Singer, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Azeem Azhar, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்), Aral Balkan, Marc R Gagné MAPP, John Keefe, Peter Steinberger, Michael (मुकेश), Bilal Zuberi, M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu, Josh Wolfe, The Indian Express, Carla Gentry 🎶, Mathew Ingram, Liliane Ferrari ™, Chris Brogan/Chief of Staff, SwiftOnSecurity
Inc.
If You Have An Amazon Echo Or Google Home, The FBI Has Some Urgent Advice For You
2 min · · You might have to do a little work with your Internet Of Things devices to stay secure. · Shared by 82, including Thomas Power, Real Marsha Wright®, Desmond Williams, Glen Gilmore #MWC23, Faik Ersoy, Stefan Diepolder
The Guardian
Can DuckDuckGo replace Google search while offering better privacy?
6 min · · The alternative search engine markets itself on protecting users’ privacy, but is it worth using? · Shared by 198, including James Young, Desmond Williams, Rick Powell, Stefan Diepolder, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Bruce Lawson, Matthias Lampe, Ines Bieler, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Dean Anthony Gratton, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Faik Ersoy
The New York Times
Opinion | Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
20+ min · · What we learned from the spy in your pocket. · Shared by 576, including Mathew Ingram, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Khoi Vinh, Alex Tabarrok 🛡️, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Robert Scoble, George J Huba PhD, Antonio Vieira Santos, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Rami Ismail (رامي), Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙, Randy Olson, felix salmon, John Battelle, zeldman, Rene Ritchie, Hilary Mason, Jeff Atwood, Gerry Moran, Chris Messina
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