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Luciano Floridi: "Apple punta al cuore della salute: la telemedicina" (di A. Sarno)5 min read · Sep 16th · Il filosofo: “È un’ecologia in cui tutto è Mela. I dati servono per farla girare”
MIT Technology Review
Why Facebook is using Ray-Ban to stake a claim on our faces2 min read · Sep 15th · To build the metaverse, Facebook needs us to get used to smart glasses.
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The Economist
The promise of open-source intelligence4 min read · Aug 5th · It is a welcome threat to malefactors and governments with something to hide | Leaders
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digitalfuturesociety.com
Could we live without our data? With Colin Koopman6 min read · Sep 3rd · Colin Koopman’s writings are focused on the politics and ethics of contemporary information technologies. Countering the widespread assumption that all the information technology we are immersed in…
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These precedents show us to have been swaddled in data for much longer than we commonly think.
Much of what we discuss under the heading of contemporary mass surveillance, by contrast, has the quite different goal of state security in mind. Surveillance today targets not the improvement of the lives of citizens but more often their safety through the prevention of possible threats to life and property. 
edwardsnowden.substack.com
The All-Seeing "i": Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy7 min read · Aug 26th · “Under His Eye,” she says. The right farewell. “Under His Eye,” I reply, and she gives a little nod.
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By now you've probably heard that Apple plans to push a new and uniquely intrusive surveillance system out to many of the more than one billion iPhones it has sold, which all run the behemoth's proprietary, take-it-or-leave-it software. This new offensive is tentatively slated to begin with the launch of iOS 15⁠—almost certainly in mid-September⁠—with the devices of its US user-base designated as the initial targets. We’re told that other countries will be spared, but not for long.
The task Apple intends its new surveillance system to perform—preventing their cloud systems from being used to store digital contraband, in this case unlawful images uploaded by their customers—is traditionally performed by searching their systems. While it’s still problematic for anybody to search through a billion people’s private files, the fact that they can only see the files you gave them is a crucial limitation
Now, however, that’s all set to change. Under the new design, your phone will now perform these searches on Apple’s behalf before your photos have even reached their iCloud servers, and—yada, yada, yada—if enough "forbidden content" is discovered, law-enforcement will be notified.
theengineroom.org
Dangerous Data: the role of data collection in genocides4 min read · From 2016 · One way of working out if the data you’re gathering is particularly sensitive is to do a thought experiment: what would happen if this data got into the hands of a malicious actor? Who would be keen to get their hands on it? What are the worst things that they could do with this data?

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annefrank.org
The Netherlands: the greatest number of Jewish victims in Western Europe~12 min read · 2020-01-26 · Three quarters of the Dutch Jews were murdered. Why was this number so high, compared to Belgium or France? The explanation can be found here.
edwardsnowden.substack.com
We Need To Talk About The Insecurity Industry6 min read · Jul 26th · The greatest danger to national security has become the companies claiming to protect it
cybersecurity
The New York Times
Opinion | America, Your Privacy Settings Are All Wrong5 min read · Mar 6th · Using an opt-in approach will help curb the excesses of Big Tech.
privacy
guild.co
Is WhatsApp in breach of the GDPR? A lawyer's view~15 min read · 2020-04-06 · What is the legal position on WhatsApp and GDPR compliance? A lawyer gives his view.
WIRED
WhatsApp Has Shared Your Data With Facebook for Years, Actually2 min read · Jan 8th · A pop-up notification has alerted the messaging app's users to a practice that's been in place since 2016.
privacy
facebook
digital life
www-nytimes-com.sare.upf.edu
adAS | Servei de Single Sign-OnJan 11th · Per poder autenticar-se és necessari tenir configurat un certificat vàlid en el navegador o tenir introduïda correctament en el lector de certificats la targeta corresponent. Premi "Continuar" per…
The New York Times
Google Dominates Thanks to an Unrivaled View of the Web7 min read · 2020-12-14 · As regulators seek ways to curb the company’s power, there is more focus on the vast index — hundreds of billions of web pages — behind its search engine.
news.yahoo.com
Facebook reportedly exempted Trump's family and allies from its misinformation rules to avoid accusations of anti-conservative bias2 min read · 2020-11-02 · Sources told the Washington Post that Facebook removed a strike from Donald Trump Jr's Instagram account — one of many exemptions for Trump's family.
National Geographic
Face-mask recognition has arrived—for better or worse8 min read · 2020-09-11 · New algorithms can police whether people are complying with public health guidance. The practice raises familiar questions about data privacy.
digital life
OneZero
How to Destroy ‘Surveillance Capitalism’2020-08-26 · Surveillance capitalism is just capitalism — with surveillance. Here’s how to beat it.
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