Privacy Analysis of Ambient Light Sensors
September 15 2020Interesting privacy analysis of the Ambient Light Sensor API. And a blog post. Especially note the “Lessons Learned” section.
Read moreCory Doctorow on The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
August 27 2020Cory Doctorow has writtten an extended rebuttal of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. He summarized the argument on Twitter. Shorter summary: it's not the surveillance part,...
Read moreIdentifying People by Their Browsing Histories
August 25 2020Interesting paper: "Replication: Why We Still Can't Browse in Peace: On the Uniqueness and Reidentifiability of Web Browsing Histories": We examine the threat to individuals' privacy based on the...
Read moreTor and anonymous browsing – just how safe is it?
August 13 2020How to stay safe when you're using Tor, even if the network is littered with rogues.
Read moreFacial recognition – another setback for law enforcement
August 11 2020"Something needs to be done," said the court. Where do you stand? For or against, have your say in our comments.
Read moreCollecting and Selling Mobile Phone Location Data
August 11 2020The Wall Street Journal has an article about a company called Anomaly Six LLC that has an SDK that's used by "more than 500 mobile applications." Through that SDK,...
Read moreBoston bans government use of facial recognition
July 6 2020To help end systemic racism, we'll stay away from an error-prone technology that's been shown to have racial bias, the city council said.
Read moreGoogle buys AR smart-glasses company North
July 3 2020They're not surveillance spectacles, says Google, just a piece in the jigsaw of "ambient computing", where helpfulness is all around you.
Read moreTikTok, for one, promised to knock this off months ago but was caught red-handed, still at it, by the new clipboard notification in iOS 14.
Read moreREvil gang threaten to auction celebrity data from Mariah Carey, Lebron James, MTV and more
June 26 2020The ransomware gang is threatening to auction celebrities' legal documents stolen from the law firm it paralyzed in May.
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