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VICE
Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data
VICE
9 min read · 484 saves · 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.
Cloudflare
Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service
Cloudflare
9 min read · 473 saves · From 2018 · Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet. We're excited today to take another step toward that mission with the launch of 1.1.1.1 — the Internet's fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS…
The Guardian
If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention
The Guardian
5 min read · 456 saves · 2020-07-26 · Facebook and America are now indivisible, says the Observer writer who broke the Cambridge Analytica scandal – and the world is the sicker for it
The New York Times
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret
The New York Times
20+ min read · 455 saves · From 2018 · Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.
The New York Times
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
The New York Times
~15 min read · 453 saves · 2020-01-18 · Kashmir Hill · A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says.
VICE
How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps
VICE
10 min read · 428 saves · 2020-11-16 · A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people's personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military.
Fast Company
Forget the new iPhones: Apple’s best product is now privacy
Fast Company
6 min read · 417 saves · From 2018 · Under Tim Cook’s leadership, Apple saw just how critical an issue user privacy would become. Now it’s at least as important a feature as shiny industrial design or a nice camera.
The Markup
Blacklight – The Markup
The Markup
1 min read · 406 saves · 2020-09-22 · A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector
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What every Browser knows about you
webkay.robinlinus.com
1 min read · 385 saves · From 2016 · See all the data your browser reveals about you by visting a website.
OneZero
How to Destroy ‘Surveillance Capitalism’
OneZero
364 saves · 2020-08-26 · Cory Doctorow · Surveillance capitalism is just capitalism — with surveillance. Here’s how to beat it.
Guardian Tech
I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets
Guardian Tech
6 min read · 359 saves · From 2017 · 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?
VICE
Zoom iOS App Sends Data to Facebook Even if You Don’t Have a Facebook Account
VICE
347 saves · 2020-03-26 · Zoom's privacy policy isn't explicit about the data transfer to Facebook at all.
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