Surely no one could have predicted this:
The new proposal—championed by Mayor London Breed after November’s wild weekend of orchestrated burglaries and theft in the San Francisco Bay...
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Post-Roe Privacy
July 13 2022This is an excellent essay outlining the post-Roe privacy threat model. (Summary: period tracking apps are largely a red herring.)
Taken together, this means the primary digital threat for...
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Ubiquitous Surveillance by ICE
July 7 2022Report by Georgetown’s Center on Privacy and Technology published a comprehensive report on the surprising amount of mass surveillance conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Our two-year investigation,...
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O! What a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive.
Read moreTwitter was fined $150 million for using phone numbers and email addresses collected for two-factor authentication for ad targeting.
Read moreThe Onion on Google Map Surveillance
May 20 2022“Google Maps Adds Shortcuts through Houses of People Google Knows Aren’t Home Right Now.” Excellent satire.
Read moreSurveillance by Driverless Car
May 12 2022San Francisco police are using autonomous vehicles as mobile surveillance cameras.
Privacy advocates say the revelation that police are actively using AV footage is cause for alarm.
“This is...
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ICE Is a Domestic Surveillance Agency
May 11 2022Georgetown has a new report on the highly secretive bulk surveillance activities of ICE in the US:
When you think about government surveillance in the United States, you likely...
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Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer FinFisher Shuts Down
April 6 2022FinFisher has shut down operations. This is the spyware company whose products were used, among other things, to spy on Turkish and Bahraini political opposition.
Read moreStalking with an Apple Watch
March 30 2022The malicious uses of these technologies are scary:
Police reportedly arrived on the scene last week and found the man crouched beside the woman’s passenger side door. According to...
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