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California cops illegally shared license plate details, violating privacy laws, grand jury says
5 months, 3 weeks ago

California cops illegally shared license plate details, violating privacy laws, grand jury says

LA Times  

Traffic is seen on the 5 Freeway leading to and from Sacramento. Although he “couldn’t say for certain” that police and sheriff’s officials were handing over more than just license plate info, Caruso said it was “safe to assume they were sharing all info.” The grand jury said any such distribution of information to out-of-state agencies — including the federal …

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Pornhub BANS five more states due to age verification laws - leaving more than 18 million Americans blocked from the X-rated site
6 months ago

Pornhub BANS five more states due to age verification laws - leaving more than 18 million Americans blocked from the X-rated site

Daily Mail  

More than 18 million Americans living in five states are set to join Pornhub's growing banned list due to lawmakers rolling out age restriction laws. More than 18 million Americans living in five states are set to join Pornhub's growing banned list due to lawmakers rolling out age restriction laws 'Since age verification software requires users to hand over extremely …

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A.I.’s Groundhog Day
11 months, 3 weeks ago

A.I.’s Groundhog Day

Slate  

At the latest congressional hearing on A.I., the hype was high. In 2016, Facebook’s algorithm unleashed the “fake-news genie.” In 2015, it was financial companies using big data to cut credit limits. “It replicates the anxieties we’ve seen around social media for a long time,” she says. Questions about online data privacy “dovetail with a lack of privacy protections that …

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Surveillance still a concern 10 years after Snowden leaks
1 year, 6 months ago

Surveillance still a concern 10 years after Snowden leaks

China Daily  

Edward Snowden speaks from Russia during a Council of Europe meeting in Strasbourg, France, in March 2019. Click on the picture above to view the special coverage Revelations have deep impact on businesses, governments, tech industry Ten years ago this month, Edward Snowden disclosed to the media United States government intelligence programs that used extensive internet and phone surveillance to …

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Surveillance still a concern 10 years after Snowden leaks
1 year, 6 months ago

Surveillance still a concern 10 years after Snowden leaks

China Daily  

Edward Snowden speaks from Russia during a Council of Europe meeting in Strasbourg, France, in March 2019. Click on the picture above to view the special coverage Revelations have deep impact on businesses, governments, tech industry Ten years ago this month, Edward Snowden disclosed to the media United States government intelligence programs that used extensive internet and phone surveillance to …

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Surveillance still a concern 10 years after Snowden leaks
1 year, 6 months ago

Surveillance still a concern 10 years after Snowden leaks

China Daily  

Edward Snowden speaks from Russia during a Council of Europe meeting in Strasbourg, France, in March 2019. Click on the picture above to view the special coverage Revelations have deep impact on businesses, governments, tech industry Ten years ago this month, Edward Snowden disclosed to the media United States government intelligence programs that used extensive internet and phone surveillance to …

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Surveillance still a concern 10 years after Snowden leaks
1 year, 6 months ago

Surveillance still a concern 10 years after Snowden leaks

China Daily  

German lawmaker Hans-Christian Stroebele holds a news conference in Berlin in November 2013 about his meeting with Snowden in Moscow. The Snowden revelations, especially slides showing the NSA was using the unencrypted traffic between the internal data centers of Google and Yahoo as a point of surveillance, triggered the tech industry into wide encryption. But the recent record-breaking fine levied …

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South Africa braces for ‘nationwide shutdown’ as military deployed ahead of protest
1 year, 9 months ago

South Africa braces for ‘nationwide shutdown’ as military deployed ahead of protest

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy South Africa is braced for …

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South Africa ‘national shutdown’: What has sparked the anti-government protests?
1 year, 9 months ago

South Africa ‘national shutdown’: What has sparked the anti-government protests?

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Julius Malema, leader of the Marxist Economic Freedom Fighters …

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Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’
2 years, 3 months ago

Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’

Associated Press  

Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives them the power to follow people’s movements months back in time, according to public records and internal emails obtained by The Associated Press. While Greensboro officials acknowledged Fog’s use and initially defended it, …

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Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’
2 years, 3 months ago

Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’

Associated Press  

Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives them the power to follow people’s movements months back in time, according to public records and internal emails obtained by The Associated Press. While Greensboro officials acknowledged Fog’s use and initially defended it, …

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Will Elon Musk’s Twitter 2.0 unmask anonymous Arab dissidents?
2 years, 7 months ago

Will Elon Musk’s Twitter 2.0 unmask anonymous Arab dissidents?

Al Jazeera  

The billionaire pledged changes that could mean the ‘end of online anonymous activism’ for thousands in the Middle East, activists and experts say. “I would like to see bots gone, as Musk said, but I’ll still not be happy if anonymous accounts were not allowed any more”, a Cairo-based Twitter user whose pseudonym is The Big Pharaoh, told Al Jazeera. …

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Apple defends scanning iPhones for child abuse images, saying algorithm only identifies flagged pics
3 years, 4 months ago

Apple defends scanning iPhones for child abuse images, saying algorithm only identifies flagged pics

Daily Mail  

Apple is pushing back against criticism over its plan to scan photos on users iPhones and in iCloud storage in search of child sexual abuse images. In a Frequently Asked Questions document focusing on its 'Expanded Protections for Children,' Apple insisted its system couldn't be exploited to seek out images related to anything other than child sexual abuse material. A …

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Google Privacy, Advertising and Their Claims of Not Tracking You Online - News18
3 years, 9 months ago

Google Privacy, Advertising and Their Claims of Not Tracking You Online - News18

News 18  

Google is finally giving up on third party cookie tracking. Anyone on the internet today have either gotten too used to being tracked and served with targeted What is Google’s privacy pitch The blog post by David Temkin, product management director for Google Ads, Privacy and Trust underlines one positive thing – users, after all, have taken cognisance of the …

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LAPD sought Ring camera footage of crime during summer protests, riling privacy advocates
3 years, 10 months ago

LAPD sought Ring camera footage of crime during summer protests, riling privacy advocates

LA Times  

During largely peaceful protests against police abuses in Los Angeles last year, some people ransacked and vandalized stores. Los Angeles Police Department detectives investigating crimes that occurred during last summer’s large protests over police abuses asked business and home owners to hand over video footage recorded by their Amazon Ring security cameras, LAPD records show. Gerry Chamberlain that Ring relayed …

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Facebook Wants Users To Love Personalized Adverts As The Privacy Battle Against Apple Rages On
3 years, 10 months ago

Facebook Wants Users To Love Personalized Adverts As The Privacy Battle Against Apple Rages On

News 18  

Facebook has made its reservations about the new incoming data privacy measures for Apple iPhones, known quite vocally. With iOS 14.5 for the iPhones, Apple will be implementing a new privacy tool that will generate a pop-up which will ask users whether they want the Facebook app on their iPhones to track their usage activities across other apps and websites. …

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Apple's iOS 14 privacy prompts now rolling out in India, here is what it means for you
3 years, 11 months ago

Apple's iOS 14 privacy prompts now rolling out in India, here is what it means for you

India Today  

Apple is supposed to introduce privacy labels that need user permission on iOS 14.4 sometime in January or February but it looks like things are moving ahead of the schedule. I found an out-of-the-blue privacy prompt when I opened the Ajio online shopping app on my iPhone that is currently on iOS 14.3. This is a laughable attempt from Facebook …

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Android should follow Apple’s privacy move, digital rights group says
4 years ago

Android should follow Apple’s privacy move, digital rights group says

The Hindu  

Electronic Frontier Foundation, an international digital rights group appealed to Google to follow Apple's move of introducing an anti-app tracking feature and to come up with a similar step to protect user privacy. Slams Facebook The non-profit foundation also slammed Facebook for ‘faking’ to be a protector of small businesses and criticising Apple's new policy. "This is a laughable attempt …

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Facebook's fight against iOS 14 privacy rules is laughable, distracting, says digital rights group
4 years ago

Facebook's fight against iOS 14 privacy rules is laughable, distracting, says digital rights group

India Today  

Facebook is putting out all the stops to make sure Apple is compelled to abandon the new iOS 14 privacy rules. Now, a digital rights group has said that Facebook’s campaign against Apple is laughable and a ploy to distract users. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, better known as EFF, has said that Facebook’s criticisms against Apple are laughable while siding …

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How To Protect Your Privacy Online In 8 Tips : Life Kit : NPR
4 years, 2 months ago

How To Protect Your Privacy Online In 8 Tips : Life Kit : NPR

NPR  

Your Technology Is Tracking You. Sponsor Message So I reached out to experts in digital security and privacy to find out what they do to protect their stuff – and what they recommend most to us regular folks. I mentioned to Mitchell that even though I use Facebook and Twitter, I don't have those apps on my phone — partly …

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