BBC News (World)
UK confirms plan for coronavirus contact tracing app
3 min read · 2020-04-12 · App will send yellow and red alerts to those who have come into contact with a suspected carrier.
twitter.com
Albert Cuesta Zaragosí 🎗😷 on Twitter
2020-04-12 · “Ahir al @diariARA em van obrir una doble pàgina per explicar coses sobre l’ús dels dispositius mòbils (no només telèfons) contra la pandèmia de #covid19.”
protonmail.com
Using Zoom? Here are the privacy issues you need to be aware of
4 min read · 2020-03-21 · If you’re using Zoom while working from home, you should be aware of the company’s questionable privacy practices, including its “attention tracking” tool.
NBC News
Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect.
4 min read · 2020-03-07
France Culture
Steve Bannon : "Si vous pensez que la campagne électorale de 2016 a été méchante, vous n’avez encore rien vu"
5 min read · 2020-02-27 · À quelques jours du "Super Tuesday", l’ancien conseiller spécial de Donald Trump a reçu chez lui Frédéric Martel, journaliste et producteur sur France Culture.
Guardian Tech
Internet privacy: the apps that protect you from your apps
8 min read · 2020-02-16 · Worried about the data collected about you? A new generation of startups is making apps to put your privacy settings straight
The New York Times
How to Track President Trump
~15 min read · 2019-12-20 · Smartphones leave a trail that anyone — and any foreign government — could follow.
Forbes
China Will Outpace US Artificial Intelligence Capabilities, But Will It Win The Race? Not If We Care About Freedom
3 min read · 2019-12-03 · If our democratic societies decide to go down the same path as China because they’re afraid we “won’t keep up,” then we’re all bound to lose. A race to the bottom—a race to degrade privacy and abuse…
The Washington Post
The CIA secretly bought a company that sold encryption devices across the world. Then its spies sat back and listened.
2020-02-11 · U.S. and German intelligence agencies partnered on a scheme to dupe dozens of nations into buying rigged encryption systems — taking their money and stealing their secrets.
Fast Company
Why you can’t escape dark patterns
6 min read · 2020-02-07 · GDPR was supposed to enhance privacy protections. But companies are using dark patterns to circumvent them, and there’s not much regulators can do about it.
nysun.com
Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone
3 min read · 2020-01-07 · I left my 9-year-old at Bloomingdale's (the original one) a couple weeks ago. Last seen, he was in first floor handbags as I sashayed out the door. Bye-bye! Have fun! And he did. He came home on the…
VICE
Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data
9 min read · 2020-01-27 · 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.
twitter.com
Simon Weckert on Twitter
2020-02-02 · “99 smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route! #googlemapshacks https://t.co/3gixMxopE6”
The Nation
Culture
2020-01-25 · The latest in cultural analysis and coverage of books and the arts from The Nation.
The Guardian
We've spent the decade letting our tech define us. It's out of control
8 min read · 2019-12-29 · Technology has grown from some devices and platforms we use to an entire environment in which we function
