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Ewa Nowak's anti-AI mask protects wearers from mass surveillance
2 min · · Polish designer Ewa Nowak has developed a mask-like accessory that makes the wearer's face undetectable to facial recognition algorithms used in public surveillance cameras. · Shared by 10, including Rick Powell, Pippa Malmgren
BuzzFeed News
Don’t Regulate Facial Recognition. Ban It.
3 min · · We are on the verge of a nightmare era of mass surveillance by the state and private companies. It's not too late to stop it. · Shared by 38, including Luca Like, Ste Davies, Christian P. Stobbe, Rick Powell
The New York Times
FaceApp Shows We Care About Privacy but Don’t Understand It
4 min · · There are good lessons to learn from an overblown controversy. · Shared by 19, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Thomas Knüwer, Rick Powell
Fast Company
Firefox’s hilarious new tool trolls advertisers to protect your privacy
2 min · · Are you more of a doomsday prepper or just a really rich person? Firefox’s Track This creates an online persona to confuse the cookies that follow you around the web. · Shared by 24, including Rick Powell, Mark Kaigwa
trackthis.link
Track This | A new kind of Incognito
· Throw ad trackers off your trail with 100 tabs of pure madness. · Shared by 112, including Chris Coyier, Amit Agarwal, Rebecca Franks, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Niklaus Gerber, Jacob du Toit, Trent Walton, Oliver Raduner, nicolatwilley, Harpreet Singh, JD Prater, Charles Baldwin, Rick Powell, Hannes Grassegger, Valiskster, Design Shack
Fast Company
Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side
5 min · · The latest version of the bot detector reCaptcha is invisible to users and has spread to more than 650,000 websites. It’s great for security—but not so great for your privacy. · Shared by 121, including Aral Balkan, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Charles Baldwin, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Kaspar Manz, Mark Kaigwa, Simone Corsi 💻🚀, Rick Powell, Tristan Nitot - nitot chez framapiaf point org, Yvette Dubel, BrendanEich, Builtvisible
Mercury News
Review: Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch.
6 min · · A tech columnist’s latest privacy experiment found Google Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser — in a single week. · Shared by 27, including Rick Powell, Lailo, Massimiliano Aroffo
The New York Times
Facebook and Google Don’t Need Your Data to Make Lots of Money
5 min · · The big ad-tech companies know how to sell ads without damaging privacy, but they choose not to. · Shared by 73, including Rick Powell, Mathew Ingram, Gabriel Weinberg, Thomas Power, luis antónio santos, Charles Baldwin
Idle Words
The New Wilderness (Idle Words)
7 min · · 06.10.2019 The New Wilderness The need to regulate online privacy is a truth so universally acknowledged that even Facebook and Google have joined the chorus of voices crying for change. Writing in… · Shared by 66, including Rachel Thomas, Rick Powell, 瑞拿頭, Joshua Walker, Konrad Lischka, Daniel Bentes, Jane
WIRED
It's Time to Switch to a Privacy Browser
5 min · · Ad trackers are out of control. Use a browser that reins them in. · Shared by 153, including Ward Plunet, Mark Kaigwa, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Backchannel, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, 瑞拿頭, Rick Powell, Sébastien Bonset
The New York Times
We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster.
· The average policy took 18 minutes to finish and required a college-level reading ability. · Shared by 133, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Avinash Kaushik, Esther Schindler, Antonio Vieira Santos, Sam DeZerga, Charles Baldwin, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Nathan Benaich, Privacy Matters, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Rick Powell, Bjorn Larsen, mastodon.social/@renestalder, John Battelle, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, #MuskOut (not parody)
The Atlantic
This Is Exactly What Privacy Experts Said Would Happen
2 min · · CBP’s trove of biometric data is catnip for bad actors. · Shared by 33, including Felix M, Marsha Collier, Charles Baldwin, Rick Powell, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
TechCrunch
Apple is now the privacy-as-a-service company
3 min · · Apple shared plenty of news today at its WWDC 2019 annual developer conference, but a few of the announcements early on are potentially its biggest in terms of what they signal about the company and… · Shared by 83, including Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Rick Powell, Jelan Ong, Yvette Dubel, Thomas Power, Charles Baldwin