WhatsApp in India
April 30 2024Meta has threatened to pull WhatsApp out of India if the courts try to force it to break its end-to-end encryption.
Read moreLong Article on GM Spying on Its Cars’ Drivers
April 26 2024Kashmir Hill has a really good article on how GM tricked its drivers into letting it spy on them—and then sold that data to insurance companies.
Read moreDan Solove on Privacy Regulation
April 24 2024Law professor Dan Solove has a new article on privacy regulation. In his email to me, he writes: “I’ve been pondering privacy consent for more than a decade,...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Trackers
April 20 2024A new bioadhesive makes it easier to attach trackers to squid. Note: the article does not discuss squid privacy rights. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk...
Read moreSurveillance by the New Microsoft Outlook App
April 4 2024The ProtonMail people are accusing Microsoft’s new Outlook for Windows app of conducting extensive surveillance on its users. It shares data with advertisers, a lot of data:
The window...
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AI and the Evolution of Social Media
March 19 2024Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A decade ago, social media was celebrated for sparking democratic uprisings in the Arab world and beyond. Now front pages are splashed...
Read moreSurveillance through Push Notifications
March 6 2024The Washington Post is reporting on the FBI’s increasing use of push notification data—”push tokens”—to identify people. The police can request this data from companies like Apple and...
Read moreFacebook’s Extensive Surveillance Network
February 1 2024Consumer Reports is reporting that Facebook has built a massive surveillance network:
Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that...
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